lg_fry wrote on 10/04/12 at 15:46:26:hold on just a sec. i'm saying i posted in that thread once before and the post was deleted entirely, not simply moved. its at least a little inconsistent to delete some and move others.
also i'd like to challenge the concept that my comment was off topic. it was relevant as to why exactly he made his contraption and didnt simply use his truck for exactly what it was made for.i mean how much more relevant can you get than, "Why?"
Did you read the Guidelines for Tech Section? The guidelines tell you added comments to tech posts will be deleted. Yours were.
Consistency? My goodness you want a lot don't you? To be consistent I wouldn't attempt to answer your question over in Tech at all, I'd simply delete it.
So, I pulled it over to the question section and I answered it.
And the OFF TOPIC thing is added automatically by YaBB, so don't take it to heart.
Now, wanting to "challenge the concept" of why he built his contraption to put it on a pick up truck, for that I cannot say. I built mine to come off the open trunk of a car that has since been sold and the contraption scrapped as a failed idea (but I will admit I carried the front wheel too high up and that is why I had a lot of my issues).
Now from a moderators point of view, the discussion was out of place, it was certainly veering away from the author's intent of the Tech Post and was due to be clipped. And indeed it has been. Next time I look at it, Al's stuff may well look out of place and get clipped too.
My purpose here is to once again educate a new generation of newbies to DO NOT ADD STUFF TO THE TECH POSTS, my real motivation is simple, you don't add the stuff I don't have to go in there every other month and clean it all out again.
Selfish, and lazy -- that's me ....