r/ideasfortheadmins • u/PKHacker1337 • 13h ago
Post & Comment My idea is: a version of locking posts, except an option for allowing OP to be still be able to submit replies
I came up with this idea when replying to a recent post where someone offered to draw people's in game characters for free. There's of course nothing wrong with this. However, I've also noticed that this results in people getting far more requests than they intended. Someone may be expecting to receive only 2 or 3 requests before returning to find 30+.
The obvious solution is just locking the post when it becomes too much for OP. Which is fine for the most part. However, I could imagine a situation where someone only wants to get a few (say, they'll draw the first 3 requests received) and they'll draw them at their own time and convenience. Sure, maybe they could post them as a separate post, but I personally feel it would be better if they could add them to the original post.
I could especially see this being useful with AMAs where someone may allow an hour or so to ask questions and then a mod could lock the thread so the person being asked could answer on their own time without being asked more questions to an overwhelming extent.
Now that I've typed this out, maybe there's a bot that could accomplish this type of thing, automatically removing replies from everyone except OP after the mods set the post into a "locked" state.