Do quirky off-topic pie pronunciations trigger you? Are they cause for verbal bloodletting? Perhaps the management needs to reevaluate policy if that is the case.
Have a donut, lighten up, smile even if it hurts, and have a nice day.
Off topic posts absolutely do not concern me; I have a scroll button and an off button and use both liberally. But, shutting down a poster with an opinion on the subject, who responded to something someone said about Sen. Cruz, that does concern me. Both are off topic, but only one triggers a warning.
Greatest feature ever invented for online political discussions: the scroll button. I ignore most of the on-topic posts here so I certainly have no problem zipping past irrelevant (to me) posts.