Take Ownership button in communities

[ankhayra]

Title
Take Ownership button in communities

Short, concise description of the idea
We would like to have a "take ownership" or "lock post" button in communities, so a mod can prevent a post from being changed

Full description of the ideaWe have 3 communities where we buy and sell clothes, post feedback, and investigate scammers. The first 2 are open,

Comments

[neitherday]

Only current members of a community can edit or delete their posts in that community. If you remove and ban the offender from the community, they will be unable to edit their posts.

[fweebles]

This is more or less a bug (I suppose more of a loophole, if you want to call it that), and will probably be removed at some time in the future. How soon in the future? No idea.

The original poster can, if they wish, open a request with Abuse, and the community's maintainers will be required to delete the entry.

As far as things stand right now, everyone "owns" everything they post and have the right to delete it at any time. That's not to say that that policy can't change, and it would have to change for this suggestion to be implemented, but I'm just saying that this suggestion and LiveJournal's current outlook are completely opposite, so take from that what you will.

[pauamma]

Is that true of all entries, or just members-only entries?

[neitherday]

All entries.

[qfemale]

No thank you. If I made a post I want the right to edit and/or delete it!

[ex_uniquewo]

No, thanks. You can always make screencaps or save the page if it matters that much.

[dawna]

+1

I don't particularly like the idea of anyone being able to block my content from deletion or editing.

[scien]

Yes - this is what I do with rulebreaker comments in all communities large enough that I can't just keep track in my head of what strike people are on etc. Just view page source, copy the relevant bit and paste to your community.

People always have more control over their content than community mods. That's fine. It is still their content, to do with as they like, whether that's a helpful contribution or a flame. And in response I can tell them off, ban them, cache things, or take whatever other steps I feel are appropriate.

[rebelsheart]

As an alternative, the maintainer can copy and paste the entry as their own entry. Simply add a note indicating the original poster.

[azurelunatic]

I would like a very fast way to do that as a maintainer myself, in case of badness.

[ankhayra]

That would be a good idea, if not for the fact that it loses the replies if the original post is deleted, of course.

[scien]

Err... just copy the comments too.

[nakeisha]

As a community owner as well as a community user I'm strongly opposed to this.

Whilst I understand fully your rationale for wanting to out spammers, etc. I think something like this has a far greater effect on the majority of users who are non-spammers.

If I post to a comm, say a story or something, and notice something I want to change, I should be able to change it; it's *my* post, after all.

So definitely no.

[turlough]

+1

[ankhayra]

Not spammers, those I'ld simply delete and ban.

Scammers, people who offer something for sale, then after they have your money, delete their post, their LJ and disappear.

And then sell the same item on ebay.

But it's ok, we found other solutions.