Pythagoras: I don't see many of them in the 8x8 chess variants board. Maybe it is just better moderated than others :-)
The problem with deleting a post is that some people may take it as meaning "Your post is garbage, let's put it where it belongs", when it should read "Your off-topic post is adding nothing to the thread, the thread will be more readable without it, let's do this favour to the readers".