wjk,
Threads always go off topic, and if they don't go off topic the reason why is because the thread died from boredom.
Honestly, impo your post of don't go off topic was just the opening volley to make it go off topic, almost like it was a double dog dare. Had you not included that statement it would have died a perfectly good death.
Now to give you a piece of advice...before you start asking questions that are easy to find by yourself on your portal take the time to search high and low by yourself for that information instead of taking the quick and easy route to get it from helpful posters.
I get it you have found an asset in this site, but please don't :
A. Use it as a spoon feed me because this was the easier path to get the answer I am looking for.
B. Don't get rigid.
~ Sorry, but I knew the answer and after seeing this same response of stay on topic from your other thread, I walked away, I felt that 1 sentence was harsh, especially coming from a brand new poster. It was to me stay off my yard unless you belong here.
~~ Mods will step in when it is needed. On the other thread you got your answer. It then went off topic. You stepped in and reprimanded posters and what did it do? It died.
~~~ You could have just said okay I have my answer and let everyone else go off book, It would have been no harm or no foul to you.
C. Why do we go off topic?
~ Because this is a forum, where we also are talking to the broad spectrum. Sure, for you, you are AF only, but what if you had not thought about the other options after figuring out that noms are a factor
~ I am off topic now, just like the others, but let me ask you a question? Will you re-think writing that reprimand again on each of your posts? Or will you just go...my question is answered, I am outta here, let them have a party?
Not trying to attack, trying to explain how that sentence impo did nothing, but secure the fact that it was going to go off topic.