Dealing with off-topic posts

Brendan Burgess

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1) Read the thread title before responding to a post.
2) Don't add your own question to someone else's thread, especially if their question is still being discussed.
3) If you find an old thread which is very similar to yours where the original question has been answered, it's ok to add your question to it, if the circumstances are almost identical. For example, a permanent tsb discounted tracker issue.
4) Be careful about making side comments or afterthoughts which are off-topic. Posters will often respond to them.
5) Don't waste your time responding to off-topic posts. The post and your response will be deleted.
6) Report a post if you consider it off-topic.

Moderators' approach
1) We delete off-topic posts and responses to them.
2) The moderators don't have time to edit posts to remove an off-topic element. The whole post will usually be removed.
3) Some posters don't like the answers they get - these are not off-topic and won't be deleted.
4) The moderators don't read every thread - particularly very long ones. If a discursive thread has gone off-topic, we will close it.
5) Sometimes the off-topic discussion is important and if the moderator has time and if it's possible, they will split the thread. But sometimes it's too messy splitting threads which have been off-topic for a few pages.
 
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