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Thread Owner
Moving snippets of conversation (because that's what these are-conversations)to one thread only serves to make both the original thread and the derailed thread and all their replies confusing and extremely hard to follow.
I look at every thread as being a conversation. You wouldn't stop a normal conversation between any number of people and force them back on to the original topic just because the topic changed, would you? It's a NATURAL thing. Conversations flow and change in a natural way. That's what conversations are!
Why the big deal about cutting up threads and moving them to one big unintelligible mish-mash? Makes ZERO sense and is highly annoying to come on here after a day or two when following a thread, only to find it's been hacked to pieces and placed in the derailed thread and is now impossible to follow who said what to whose reply.
Not exactly conducive to CONVERSATION. And many of those things that have been moved to the mish-mash are highly educational to EVERYONE. Good job!
If you're that concerned about keeping things only on the original topic, why not just close the thread completely as soon as it starts to veer? At least that way it won't be such a mess to try and read.
/end rant
I look at every thread as being a conversation. You wouldn't stop a normal conversation between any number of people and force them back on to the original topic just because the topic changed, would you? It's a NATURAL thing. Conversations flow and change in a natural way. That's what conversations are!
Why the big deal about cutting up threads and moving them to one big unintelligible mish-mash? Makes ZERO sense and is highly annoying to come on here after a day or two when following a thread, only to find it's been hacked to pieces and placed in the derailed thread and is now impossible to follow who said what to whose reply.
Not exactly conducive to CONVERSATION. And many of those things that have been moved to the mish-mash are highly educational to EVERYONE. Good job!
If you're that concerned about keeping things only on the original topic, why not just close the thread completely as soon as it starts to veer? At least that way it won't be such a mess to try and read.
/end rant