There have been a number of threads that have either been locked or threatened to be locked by a mod/admin for going off topic. Well, as the title suggests, why not delete the off topic posts so the thread can remain open?
There always reopend. What we do is lock the thread to let people cool off if there is a fight or give members time to gather themselves back ontop topic. After 12-24 hours the thread is unlocked.threatened to be locked by a mod/admin for going off topic.
I personally never delete off topic posts unless they break rules like personal attacks, very rare for me to do so given how active we are & generally the community is doing a fine job keeping things on track mostly..why not delete the off topic posts
Now granted there have been times where we have locked threads because members have gotten into verbal fights and we scrub the personal attacks and lock the thread for the members to cool off or duke it out in private. We choose this option a lot 99% of time instead of banning people.No threads are permanently locked because it went off topic.