tea.mathoverflow.net - Discussion Feed (You can only "vote to close" your own topic) Sun, 04 Nov 2018 13:43:48 -0800 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.9 & Feed Publisher Anton Geraschenko comments on "You can only "vote to close" your own topic" (966) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/89/you-can-only-vote-to-close-your-own-topic/?Focus=966#Comment_966 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/89/you-can-only-vote-to-close-your-own-topic/?Focus=966#Comment_966 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:16:19 -0800 Anton Geraschenko You lose a certain amount of control over your question if other people contribute. If there are no answers with upvotes (I think), you can delete your own question. If the question has answers with upvotes, that means that somebody in the community found something worthwhile in the question, so you need support from the community to close/delete the question.

I agree it's a little weird, but I'm not convinced that it's the wrong behavior. In any case, wanting to close your own question is a rare and weird enough situation that I think it's not a big deal if a moderator (or a handful of 3000+ rep users) needs to get involved.

Did you want your question deleted, or just closed?

]]> Harry Gindi comments on "You can only "vote to close" your own topic" (965) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/89/you-can-only-vote-to-close-your-own-topic/?Focus=965#Comment_965 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/89/you-can-only-vote-to-close-your-own-topic/?Focus=965#Comment_965 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:10:14 -0800 Harry Gindi