General discussion of moderation procedures - Part 7

I got suspended? I can't tell which thread Iano is talking about. I never even knew I got suspended and don't find a post discribing it in the suspensions thread.Guess I've been driving while talking on the cell phone. I certainly haven't been drinking. This was all news to me. Actually, I didn't know Iano had been suspended either.lfen

Well, then let me just add an explanation.I didn't see the warning the first time I posted as I was reading from midway and replied at that point in the thread, the warning was downstream and on the next page.Then I received an email notification that Iano had replied and clicked on the post and FireFox opened a tab at Iano's reply to me. I went right to replying to him and finished. Then in looking at that page I saw the warning at the top, this being the first I had seen it. So realizing that my post was off topic I went back and added a statement of my beliefs.So I'm guilty but the warning system is not always obvious or timely given the way I, and I suspect others, access threads is not stricly sequential. I don't know how this software works. It might be that if specific people are warned it could generate an email like it does for replies?As it happened the first I heard of the suspension was when I came across Iano complaining about it. I didn't even know what he was talking about and couldn't find it because the hour had expired long before I logged in again.lfen

I see how easily off topic posts snowball. There is need of a warning. Some admins go so far as to put a "Do not reply to this offtopic post" in big colored letters in the off topic posts. I actually think that is the most effective approach although perhaps time consuming for the admins.lfen