Change a topic into self-moderated retrospectively / add polls retrospectively

[1miau]

You can bring your request to Self-moderated topics

Interesting to know that self-moderation has been around since 10 years already but from reading replies in that topic, it's not intended to request moderators to make a topic self-moderated.
In addition, it's a pretty inactive topic.

Assume that I create a topic which isn't self moderated and you make a post. (You may not want to post in my thread if it's self-moderated). Then I make the topic self-moderated and delete your post.

I'm kinda on the fence about this idea; part of me agrees with OP that it'd be nice to switch a thread you created to a self-moderated one in order to get rid of shitposts (which has plagued so many threads on this forum, it's ridiculous).  On the other hand, I suspect that if Theymos were to implement a feature like this, it would be the focal point of a massive number of complaints by members who had their posts nuked, even if said feature wasn't being abused.

My request would only affect new replies, after a topic gets changed to self-moderated. All post left before wouldn't be affected. This would prevent abuse of mass-deletion of old posts.
Should a member make a new reply in such a topic which has been switched to self-moderated, our current "topic is self-moderated" banner would be displayed as usual.

Interesting idea, maybe I'll PM a moderator to ask if it's possible and an appropriate solution. Or a moderator can reply here if it's possible.

I just checked  (in a section where self-moderated topics are enabled) and we have no option to change a topic to self-moderated.

Many thanks for checking out.  

[Findingnemo]

The feature can be really great to have but I don't think it will be in the priority list of theymos so the possible solution is locking the non self moderated topic and create the new one, and if you managed to realise you want the topic to be self moderated after creating a non self moderated before any replies made then you can report your own thread to be deleted using report to moderator button and just create a new one.

[Lafu]

My request would only affect new replies, after a topic gets changed to self-moderated. All post left before wouldn't be affected. This would prevent abuse of mass-deletion of old posts.
Should a member make a new reply in such a topic which has been switched to self-moderated, our current "topic is self-moderated" banner would be displayed as usual.

I dont see that happend at all , and why would you like to change a topic from normal to self-moderated after you see some spam and other posts you dont like,
if you cant delete them if there is the option to make it self-moderated  but it wont effects the existing and already done replies on it .
Just report the posts you maybe see as spam or what ever and all should be good.
The next thing if it would be possible to change the topic into self-moderated it would be maybe abused by scammers and other shaddy Users.

[GazetaBitcoin]

Many thanks for checking out. 

This is also what I knew: you can always (through a small trick) change a self-moderated topic into a non-self-moderated one, but the opposite is not possible. In order to change a self-moderated thread into one without self-moderation you have to move your topic to a board where self-moderation is not possible (Meta, for example).

But there is no possibility to add self-moderation to a topic which was created without self-moderation. I understand your purpose but this is not possible...

Furthermore, be aware that a bug may also prevent you from creating self-moderated threads: so if you start writing a topic and you added its title and a few lines of text then you decide to add self-moderation from "Additional Options", although you'll check that checkbox, the topic won't be self-moderated after it will be posted. To make sure that your topic will have self-moderation you should always check the checkbox for self-moderation just after clicking on "New topic" button.

This is an old bug which was never fixed and it may affect you in case you won't pay attention to selecting to have the topic with self-moderation just after clicking on "New topic" button.

[Igebotz]

How is it possible to change a topic into self-moderated retrospectively?

It would be acceptable to have it if the OP could ONLY delete posts that were made AFTER the topic was changed to "self-moderated," and not the other way around.

When the WO thread was full of spam, it was converted to a self-moderated thread and handed over to an active (New) OP, and nothing went wrong after that.

[skarais]

It would be great if we can do that where we can add polls or make it into self-moderated thread. In my opinion, in that way we can help delete posts that are posted in the thread we created that is out of topic, low quality and non-constructive posts which I think mods don't have to do it themselves.

Of course that would help anyone with good intentions, but what if it was the other way around?
Someone who eventually turns into scammer could easily delete some of your replies after few years on the thread if the feature existed, but I can expect something positive from it. The solution is to close the old thread, start new thread, or report spam and keep it up.

OP, to be honest that I've asked about the same thing a few years before: Can admin enable feature I forgot in a published thread?

And this is one of the most helpful answer for me:

What you can do is to create a new thread a self-mod., close the previous thread and let everyone know that you made a new thread, or just let it as is.