Ok, I am new here but doing the forum thing for decades (back when they were still bulletin boards if any of you are old enough)
Why cant the poster have simple moderator rights to delete and lock their own posts like pretty much every other forum in the world. I hate having to open a ton of posts if I search for an item and read "sold" somewhere in the thead.
If the item is sold, there is no point for the thread.. let the seller delete it.
The last forum I ran, the mods can set how far back they can see deleted threads is there is a conflict.