[Discuss] Hijacking threads

[Timothy Collett]

Alexander Keul wrote:
> On a side note, this is actually still in the same thread, even with a
> changed topic.

Which is why worrying about thread hijacking is not really worth it, 
especially not on a list like this.  Besides, it's not like anyone's 
really deliberately *hijacking* a thread; discussions just devolve into 
tangents.  A lot of times, you want to reply to a part of someone's 
message, and that nudges the discussion a little bit away from the 
topic, then someone else replies to part of your post, nudging it 
further, and someone else replies to part of theirs, nudging it further, 
and before you know it, you're talking about the price of fish in Foda.

It's not like trying to discuss AMD vs Intel at a poetry reading, 
anyway; we're all talking about BM here on the BM discussion list.  If 
someone replied to this post and started ranting about AMD vs Intel (or 
poetry, for that matter), that would be inappropriate, but you can't 
demand that everyone always change the subject line whenever their post 
deviates more than 23.76% away from the original topic of the thread. 
It's just not practical.

Timothy Collett
Anaris Family

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