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Originally Posted by metsandfinsfan
i needed to respond and you delete it?
I'll make a suggestion for future similar incidents, that I've used before. Quote the post, but rather than responding here and hitting Reply, cut-and-paste it into the appropriate thread's reply box and then respond there. Come back here and let them know you responded in the correct thread. Conversation continues, no danger of deletion, and it helps the moderators.
I don't do that often because typically as long as all the off-topic posts go, I don't care because the post I didn't want to leave unanswered is gone as well. I try not to get too attached to posts.