I think the reason why people are told not to recommend Thread OPs to post their question to a different forum is because the mods are always on top of moving threads out of the AAQ forum if needed, so it's useless to tell the OP to move their thread. But I agree, I've also seen a lot of people advising Thread OPs to post their question to a different forum, and I don't know why when it's very clear that you're not supposed to.
