Welcome back Kar!
I can imagine you want to clean threads from 2012 a fresh start seems more attractive.
I agree with you Anna it should be discouraged for an OP who disagrees with how the thread turn out to be able to delete.
That would harm the freedom of speech and expression of other community members.
How it is now is somewhat overbearing I think
I hope you are right and KC has some more advanced forum running skills in the team to tweak the settings of their forums in a more subtle way.
Giving us the rights back to delete avarage threads
