Thread:Talk:Flow/Auto-archiving/reply (70)

You're always presuming that such moderating will actually happen. When I look at current threads this is clearly not the case. Threads need to "moderate themselves", e.g. keep clear even if off-topic discussion is happening. The current discussion system is quite good at this job (even if it probably was a lucky shot).

Additionally (as stated before) if re-parenting or even closure was done by users, it would produce controversy and maybe edit warring (who decides when topics are off-topic, what would be a more appropriate board or if the off-topic can even be "hatted"?)

If the moderating was only allowed to do by moderators (therefore circumventing most controversy), administrators would be drowning in work.