Sometimes nodes are posted which are considered "off topic".

Usually, someone will consider such node and suggests either to mark the node "[OT]" or delete it all together.

Perhaps, one could make a new section for such "[OT]"-nodes and move the original node and the whole tree of answers to this section.

I see several advantages:

• The regular sections do not get cluttered with "[OT]".
• If you don't want to be bothered with "[OT]" nodes, you just never visit the OT-section.
• Deleting an "[OT]" node leaves the whole discussion hanging in thin air.
• You can still spend ++ or -- on the "[OT]"-node.
• Do all the anwers to an "[OT]"-node have to be marked "[OT]" as well? That's quite a job for the janitors or editors. And are they allowed to do so without first considering these answers and asking the Monastery what to do with these nodes?

It's not a live or death issue, but my very nature rebels against deleting information (and I'm right: Stephen Hawking recently said that not even black holes destroy information).

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