The way you can help keep a thread on topic is to report to moderator if you see a thread going off topic and lets the mods remove the offending post.
ok, i'll try again, some window killed my last reply...[:@]
in referance to my thread only...
the thread was about fly for fun we held, and other members wanted to visit, after our event i posted pics up, everything was good, then one of the vistors invited us to his event, so i used the same thread to ask for directions and such, and i was going to use it to post the pics of this day. to me this saved having to start a new thread and waste space in the main forum ( and annoy users that don't want to know of our little things, they already ignored one thread about our event, why start another ). i didn't see it as off topic, just an evolution of the orginial topic.
i had no warnings, it just disapeared
i can't automatical blame a mod in the 3D section as it happened to another thread there, and one of the mods found the archive and brought it back as he didn't see the problem.
however, as it did go, for what ever reason, that dosnt really matter.
but it does bring up the questions of an automatic mailing system to warn users to change the thread, and an automatic standard page when/if the thread is removed.