Just what kind of capabilities do OP's have in their own threads?

[Guardian Box]

For example, suppose I, hypothetically, make a thread in one of the creative writing sections, but someone posts something that I very much do not appreciate in my thread (for example, something that absolutely fucking murders my will to write another chapter of a particular story, or any piece fanfiction at all altogether, while still being within bounds of the greater QQ rules).

On some other forums, the OP has the capability to, say, make a request of the staff to remove such unwanted content. Or perhaps threadban someone who consistently breaks the OP's unofficial rules for the thread.

My question is kinda sorta about just how much control over the content of their threads do the OP's have? Like, can they make rules like 'no [X] allowed here' despite such a thing not being against the official QQ rules?

My suggestion would be I guess to clarify what the original posters and thread-starters are capable of doing in their own threads. We all know about the ability freely make and change threadmarks, and to (within reason) request the staff to open and close their threads at OP's discretion, but just what else is there, if anything?

 

[MissileTeatime]

Whatever they are, there's also limits.

Rathmun will happily complain to you about the mods not coming down like a ton of bricks on someone who made a comment on a topic that rathmun did not like and had dealt with from a lot of other posters. But rathmun also relied on "thread cultural norms" to establish that this kind of comment was unwelcome, rather than explicitly stating what was unwelcome or posting a reference that implicitly established what was unwelcome.

I think that rathmun's desire to not have that behavior in their thread was perfectly reasonable, and the mods posting in that thread prior to that incident seemed to agree. Hell, the mods posting about it after that incident seemed sympathetic as well. But I think rathmun's approach to transmitting expectations of behavior made violations inevitable, and trying to browbeat and issue ultimatums to the mods made everything worse.