Guild Wars 2

A great topic was deleted from the forums today. The reason was the original poster requested a deletion.

While I understand this is nice for folks who “talk first and think later”, there were many good points made in the topic.

I suggest the forum rules for topic deletion should be modified:

1. Deletion not allowed for topics where other players have responded

- OR -

2. Original poster can be made “anonymous” in the topic, preserving the original discussion thread while sheltering the OP from further scrutiny.

- OR -

3. Simply lock the topic so everyone can still read it, but further contributions are prevented. This is the least appealing option imho, but better than all-out-deletion.

In this specific case, there was nothing embarassing about the original post or the responses. In addition the conversation was constructive. It’s sad that this is now gone just because the OP felt it should be.