I absolutely disagree. Dgolds, as soon as anyone else posted to that thread, it ceased to be yours, hence you should have no right to delete it. What you may consider unpleasentness may not be considered so by others. If you could delete the thread, the useful information you admit is in it would be lost to everyone else. If the webmaster considers the thread inappropriate, it can be locked. I very much welcome the recent change stopping threads being deleted - it is a shame a user can no longer delete their own posts but that is an acceptable price.