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Originally Posted by kpugh
To avoid the incorrect/unnecessary answers perhaps the threads in these categories that ask a specific question could be set up such that only people that are truly knowlegable in those areas can respond. These people will be pre-approved by the moderators.
I browse occassionally at work when I get a chance but not very often. It is very hard for me to read through 3 pages of incorrect assumptions/opinions and needless side topics to get to that one post that gives me a reasonable answer to the initial question. Some of these threads get so off topic that by the time I get to the last post I have forgotten what the original topic was!
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There are a certain line I feel uneasy crossing when I become a moderator. For instance, I would love to keep threads in topic, but I feel uneasy about deleting post that are in fact drawing the thread into a different direction. Sometimes they are just for fun (like a little side comment as a joke) or sometimes it is a seperated but related question. Those are the times I want to delete the side comments, and move the related question into a different thread. But it got hard when people start replying to both topics in one post making it hard to move that post.
So, I want to ask right now, is it ok if I go ahead and delete posts, and move them into new threads if they are off topic? Same questions with answers that are in the form of "I think" "maybe" or "I don't know".