DERAILING POSTS WITHIN TOPICS

[jklcpa]

Please, folks, try to stay on the topic and remember that the original poster is a tax preparer awaiting an answer to solve his or her problem in order to finish a project or return, and it is not helpful to that person to receive answers that derail topics sideways into other areas with anecdotal stories. If you don't have the technical answer, that's OK, please scroll on by and hopefully someone else will chime in with the answer. 

If a topic or post jogs a memory or brings a related question to mind, that's OK too, but PLEASE START A SEPARATE TOPIC.

If you take the time to read your typed response before clicking "submit" and the post swerves off course with something that sounds like "this reminds me of when my spouse's second cousin's brother's wife's stepchild once removed brushed her pet rabbit..." then please rethink your answer.

Obviously, this doesn't apply to the occasional nontax-related topics that are posted in fun.