A while ago I started a thread called When Do You Give Up On A Thread? (When do you give up on a thread?). My point being that many threads on TD go way off topic after a page or two. My plaint was answered with comments like this:

Quote Originally Posted by A Teak Door Mod
It's just like real life.

You don't expect a conversation to stay on topic the entire time you are conversing with someone, so why expect it here?
And yet recently a number of off topic posts have been deleted from various threads.

Does this signal a change in TD policy? Are off-topic posts no longer allowed?

I hope the mods are ready for their massively increased workload....