Doggon Bluebird, thats purty tuff !! heck we all ramble off on a topic from time to time.. :-[
Jesse - We understand that each topic and thread will have it's own natural progression, and eventually a lot of topics can be pretty far off of what they started out being. That is quite alright and perfectly acceptable.
What we are wanting to avoid is the immediate and completely off-topic comments that seem to derail a thread that could potentially be very infomative. In other words, when someone starts a new topic about something, maybe something like "I shot my new rifle yesterday" and then another person comes along in the first few replies and asks or makes a comment completely irrelevant to the topic, such as "Did you ever get that new dog you were talking about getting?", it tends to kill the entire thread.
What we would like to see is that the threads are allowed to take their natural course instead of immediately getting derailed. Bluebird and I have both had a couple of complaints about this and it has resulted in less participation here by the people who bought it to our attention. We would like to try to stop that if at all possible.
For the record, we will not delete a post that follows along with the natural progression of the thread, it would have to be something completely irrelevant like the example I listed above.
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