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Originally posted by Aelia Jusa:
Yes, there's a difference between serious conversation off-topic, like in that smoking thread where communism was brought up so naturally a little aside was made about communism. Often the stuff that is tangential isn't really worth making a separate thread over either so I think it belongs in the thread it started in. And serious conversation off-topic that is just spam where someone might make a little joke and it is carried on for lots of posts after with nothing to do with the topic or even tangential. I reckon it's worse even when people who weren't participating in the original discussion add to the off-topic bits then - it's like, I couldn't add anything serious to this discussion, but I can certainly add some spam!  And then non-serious conversations that go off topic - not so bad. And it depends whether the originator of the thread is participating, or comes back after starting a serious thread and finds it all spammed up, or whether the off-topic stuff is coming in when the discussion was pretty much wound up anyway.
I DON'T like the threaded system though! Ugh! [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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This is exactly what I mean. [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img] A witty comment, a one-liner post, can be a funny addition to a discussion. But when you suddenly find 10+ of these posts in a row at least I get the feeling the discussion is over even though it has only just begun. Threads do evolve, and even though that is "off-topic" I do not think of it as such.
Mellagar's post is a
VERY good example of off-topic that is not necessary in a discussion. I canīt add anything to the topic so let's spam some.
*hint* And Attalus's post is an example of threads evolving, not a very good example but still.
There will always be questions outside the original topic that still is worth debating, although I fail to see how one can jump from my topic to Nazi deposit funds. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
[ 05-10-2003, 05:31 AM: Message edited by: WillowIX ]