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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's a benign example of allowing a post to veer off course a bit:  OP asked for restaurant suggestions for a 40th bday party.  Many offered suggestions and a discussion debated whether a particular restaurant was good or awful.  At least one poster suggested that OP cater the party, suggested a caterer and listed many reasons why catering may be better than a restaurant.  2 pages later, OP comes back and says, "hey thanks for the Ridgwell's suggestion, I hadn't considered catering."  I warned that it was a benign example, but I've seen some "off" responses that are way more on target/useful/informative than the choices OP offers.   [/quote]

I'm the OP of the temporary guardianship thread. I don't think the example you offer is an appropriate analogy to my thread.  Suggesting a party be catered and offering reasons why it might be better is still within the topic of celebrating a 40th birthday party with food and the OP didn't request responders stick to restaurants. On my thread, I would have been fine with responses suggesting alternatives to temporary guardianship other than "don't do it" and a number of responses weren't 'benign'.  Even the title of this thread misconstrues my post, my intention was not to "take custody", my intention is to offer to be "temporary guardian".  Big difference.  I would have been receptive to suggestions or alternatives that would have given my friend more options than what she has right now, things that I might not have thought of. None were offered and I felt the thread was degenerating, the helpful responders were being drowned out by the unhelpful ones so I asked Jeff to intervene.  If the OP from the 40th birthday party had come back and said her house was too small to have anything and wanted only restaurant options yet people still insisted on talking about catering, I think it would be appropriate for the Jeff to intervene.  It boils down to "is this thread helpful to the OP?".[/quote]

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