Echos Myron brings up a good point and a good suggestion. After discussion with the community support team, we agree with the general idea that members should be given more of a choice in the matter. However, since not all members log on every day (and some only once or twice a week), we don't feel we can reasonably wait for a reply from a member regarding their off-topic post to a thread before we act. (While we'd be waiting for a reply, many off-topic replies could be made to the original off-topic post, further confusing the OP's thread, and making more work for us to try and disentangle the whole thing later on.)

So moving forward, for posts that need to be moved and that we feel are valid topics to address in another forum or thread, a member's post will be moved and the member PM'ed with a link to the new thread made with their post. We will explain why it was moved and then ask the member if they wish to leave the post as a new thread, or have it removed altogether.

We hope this will help people feel more empowered by giving members more options regarding any moved post.

DocJohn