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[quote=Anonymous]Jeff,

This is the second time you've censored posts (that I know of) because the OP does not want any information that doesn't match her very strict question. I understand your point about cut of steak, eating meat, but you know, there probably HAVE been posts about steak, and meat, and people may in fact have benefited from the information. How about, if you're going to eat meat, eat pastured, grass fed beef? Taht's not exactly what "cut" to eat, but it's still information that goes beyond what the OP is asking for. But it might be beneficial. Grass fed beef tastes different. Some experts have pretty compelling evidence that it is healthier. And keep in mind that not only is the OP learning and benefitting from the thread, other people are, too.

I understand that there are some occasions where you have to step in simply because the heat of the issue will guarantee 20 inflammatory posts for every 1 useful post - therapeutic abortion comes to mind. But it's a slippery slope to start telling posters that the OP gets to control not only her question but the responses she gets. Is this an open forum or not? I think there may be cause to weigh in on a case by case basis here, but I hope it's not going to be the case that every OP simply gets to say "only give me the answers I want, and don't offer your opinion on anything else or I'm telling Jeff," and then you come in and squash the debate.

For full disclosure, I am one of the posters who disagreed with you on censoring the medication for ADHD thread. (And I"m not anti-med, I just don't like the artificiality of a thread where only pre-approved answers the fit the OP's demands for germaneness are allowed).

Another thought. A while back I posted about ways I could politely tell a lactation consultant I wanted to try to breastfeed my infant in private before she offered help. I got sooo many off topic replies. I understand, it is annoying. People were telling me that I should seek therapy for my "issues," etc. But I still got a few good pieces of advice. And actually, a few of those posters who I thought had irrelevant information ended up giving me valuable tips. And maybe someone else reading it got valuable tips.

On a forum where you won't get involved with people publicly blaming a mom who has just lost her child for not providing an epi-pen, a forum where people routinely say racist things, and are really ugly to one another, I'm just a bit bemused by why, exactly, this is a line you want to draw in the sand.

I'm not trying to be antagonistic - but please help me understand why this is worth meddling in, but other things are not. [/quote]

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