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  • Allow Full-Deletion of threads of your own creation in ServerListing for the forums? 12

    1. Yes! (9) 75%
    2. No! (3) 25%

    Allow us to terminate/delete our own threads in ServerListing so we dont have to wait for a unspecified time for it to be auto-deleted.

    This is with consideration to the fact that we cannot delete threads of our own if another person has commented unless all comments are deleted.

    I'll add a poll to this for the same question for fun, as you guys might wanna see the community's feelings about it.

  • ...You can bump by just replying to your thread, why would you need to spam?

    Bumping threads also happens excessively often, however moderating excessive bumping is easier to moderate then someone spamming a million threads. Additionally i do not believe you can get your thread deleted unless you have a good reason. And again, people can just abuse deleting their threads and making it again, giving it basically the same effect as not limiting it tov1 thread per person

  • Bumping threads also happens excessively often, however moderating excessive bumping is easier to moderate then someone spamming a million threads. Additionally i do not believe you can get your thread deleted unless you have a good reason. And again, people can just abuse deleting their threads and making it again, giving it basically the same effect as not limiting it tov1 thread per person

    Q: again, why would you need to spam threads when you can just bump.

    Q: As a furtherment to the original suggestion: why is there not a 1 hour CD for deleting/posting threads instead of this system?

  • Q: again, why would you need to spam threads when you can just bump.

    We can't answer that, we're not the individuals who did that before we implemented the one-thread system.

  • Because i will not speak on the team's decisions on their current system unless I firmly believe what I say is correct or at least somewhat factual with the team's standpoint. And I do not believe that what I currently think about it is entirely adjacent to what the team would think, thus they can explain that themself. But if you really want me to elaborate, I MYSELF, firmly believe that this system we have now is good enough and a replacement of it wouldn't be beneficial, besides, it'd again be more for us to moderate because a 1 hour cooldown could still cause mass-advertisement enough

  • So basically, from your point of view, A 1 hour cooldown for terminating a thread of one's own creation is too short, but people can just create Alt accounts and spam the same server over and over again in the span of 10 Minutes or less per alt (or about 6 boosts a hour.) but A 1 hour cooldown would be spammable?

  • When a thread is deleted, a new one can be made so yes.


    Making a ton of alts just to advertise your server is not really something many people choose to do, because obviously it's a waste of time.


    I am done with giving my say in this however, i was answering you - not looking to argue with you.

    • Official Post

    This was possible in the past, but people keep abusing and spamming so the team made such action

    That was never possible. Normal users just can't delete threads at all. They can delete their own post, and if it's the only one it automatically deletes the thread.


    Skipping the whole senseless discussion...


    Why do you want to delete your thread?

  • That was never possible. Normal users just can't delete threads at all. They can delete their own post, and if it's the only one it automatically deletes the thread.


    Skipping the whole senseless discussion...


    Why do you want to delete your thread?

    Probably because
    1: You can't edit listed links/versions/IPs on said threads.
    1.1: You cannot create as far as I'm aware any more than 1 Thread for your other existing Ips (Which wouldn't make sense as long as there is only 1 max per IP.)

    2. I don't use it anymore/deleted the topic starter in a attempt to remove the entire thread, which if you ask me, should be what happens to a certain extent.

    3. Should one really need a reason to delete something they created? You guys get logs of every edit/delete/creation regardless? (Assuming you have a log system similar to Fandom's)

    • Official Post

    You can't edit listed links/versions/IPs on said threads.

    You can, within 5 minutes after creation of the post. If you have a new server, wait the cooldown time and create a new thread. The intention behind this is to avoid that other users comment your post and you change the original content.


    With the standard tools of this forums software it's not possible to allow users to delete threads. Which makes sense, since users shouldn't be able to delete other users posts by deleting a thread.

    It would be possible to write an own forums plugin, but that's not worth the effort.


    To be honest, this is mainly a forum for support requests, with some side space to advertise your server and not a full featured server list. If you want to advertise your 30 servers with all possible feature I'd recommend to use an external public server list.

  • You can, within 5 minutes after creation of the post. If you have a new server, wait the cooldown time and create a new thread. The intention behind this is to avoid that other users comment your post and you change the original content.

    I don't understand this at all.

    Quote from Roman

    With the standard tools of this forums software it's not possible to allow users to delete threads. Which makes sense, since users shouldn't be able to delete other users posts by deleting a thread.

    It would be possible to write an own forums plugin, but that's not worth the effort.

    I would be asking for SELF Thread deletion. Why would you want others to delete YOUR thread? That's just asking for griefing.

    Also, why would you not have built in permissions for thread permissions (Such as archiving, or in this case deleting?) Seems a bit weird, you dont have to notice this at all.

    I dont think that last para refers to anything I should consider here.

    • Official Post

    I would be asking for SELF Thread deletion. Why would you want others to delete YOUR thread? That's just asking for griefing.

    I said that it's not possible that users delete whole threads. This includes the case that someone wants to delete his/her own thread.



    Also, why would you not have built in permissions for thread permissions (Such as archiving, or in this case deleting?) Seems a bit weird, you dont have to notice this at all.

    What?

  • This is honestly going nowhere considering how we are both confusing each other with evident misunderstandings between either method of writing, or just a incompatability with how we view things.

    With all that said and done before this thread gets locked/never seen again, mind telling me when the threads auto delete for inactivity? Cause my stupid thread that I can for some ungodly reason can't delete due to whatever reasons you specified above, is still active, without a proper IP/Discord LInk, and I cant erase it or the messages on that thread to allow myself to create a new thread for one of my other servers.

    Summary:
    How long does server listing auto-deletion take? (For inactivity or otherwise stated reasons.)