Just because you start a thread doesn't mean you own that thread

PeppermintPatty said:
Topics organically morph into other topics. That’s the nature of topics.
No need for ‘topic’ police.
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it's basically no different than sitting around having coffee and talking with friends. you might talk about the neighbors truck but eventually you're gonna talk about other stuff. i don't know why people get so worked up about that. so yeah topic police are a pain.
 
Furryanimal said:
If a thread I start goes off on a tangent -or several tangents-I don’t mind.
I’m on a railway forum where the mods get upset and post a warning in red if a thread starts to go off topic.
Don’t like that.
I stopped posting on one long running thread here after getting moaned at twice because the OP objected to what I’d posted via PM.And I wasn’t even off topic.Or rude.Difficult to be on the thread concerned.
Threads go where they go….and as long as they don’t get personal I can’t see a problem.
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they did that to me on a gaming forum so i just left. any slight diversion and they threatened to ban. i was like whatever.
 
When this thread began, I expected to read days later what members posted after it had run its course. Given so many senior members herein that obviously only began using the World Wide Web after the rise of smartphones versus earlier computer only users, expected a bunch of posts reflecting a lack of understanding what the wider Internet has become or just a lot of jokes.

Matrix...
Notice: All Members Please Read

...Posts that are rude, abusive, insulting, trolling, personal attacks, sexually offensive, racially offensive or inflammatory, vulgar or incite hate will not be tolerated. Please focus on the topic at hand, and not other members. If you have nothing to contribute to a thread besides a short sarcastic comment, insult or derailing/hijacking it, then skip that thread.

Any problem posts/threads will be removed, edited or locked, and the user's account may be terminated without notice.
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Will suggest members read through this summary wikipedia forum article. Even someone with extensive technical exposure like this person benefits from occasionally reviewing material like Matrix's policies and the below general link, because the Internet is continually changing as technology improves and its implementations evolve.

Internet forum - Wikipedia

If one researches the issue of forum thread hijacking, one will find it was thoroughly addressed on the early web before the smartphone era (~ 2005). There are reasons why thread hijacking in many web communities on specific sub-forums has been advised against from those early days. On large social media sites like Reddit it is strongly controlled by a team of moderators. There is a vast Internet world many on this board probably still are not aware of because university, business, and commercial sites long ago used account logins to prevent hackers and other cretins from disrupting their sites. Today there is an immense war going on between the dark world interested in stealing information for money and the rest of us.

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Personally don't consider diverging from a thread topic as a black and white issue nor one of much importance on this informal SF board. Much depends on the nature of a community, nature of its sub-forums, and specific nature of an OP's thread.

If an OP requests staying on topic, then members ought for the sake of community pleasantness, do so. In any case, if I have something to add that is a bit off topic, will sometimes wait like in this thread until the thread has run its course to add my 2 cents of whatever. At other times may inject into a post while a thread is still active with a direct text statement to the effect my one time post is off topic for a specific purpose so a greater audience will see it.
 
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