Hi,
What do you think about an option whereby the Original Poster of a new topic thread has a button which will let them lock the thread?
In my experience, I'll start a topic with a question, have it answered fairly quickly, and then the topic gets somewhat hijacked and goes on and on. My most "famous" example was a question about a specific incident with an international website on Orcon that went for 50 pages and 7 months of hijacked moaning about Orcon's International traffic in general.
My thinking is that if I've started a topic, and had what I consider a reasonable answer, and I don't want the thread to drag on and on, then I could click a "lock" button rather than having to pester a moderator to do it for me. Obviously, this should ONLY be an option for the topic-creator.
Thoughts?