[Scarred Sun]

It seems lately we're having a bit of a problem with people veering completely off-topic from the intentions of the original poster. Therefore, if you have something to say that's not related to the original topic, please either make a new topic for it or just hold your peace. It should be noted that is not folks from Sonic Classic doing the majority of this, so don't get any ideas.

So, starting now, we're cracking down on this behavior. Don't whine if your posts are trashed.

[Skaarg]

This sounds good to me. Some topics have gone pretty far off topic lately.

Just to clarify will off topic items still be allowed if they are noted to be off topic and if the post still contains other sufficient and quality material that pertains to the original topic?

[Nemesis]

Did you know that OLED is looking on-track for mainstream use in TV's and computer monitors by mid 2010? Finally it looks like we'll have a display medium with decent picture quality back in the market in the near future, now that LCD has killed off CRT.


...Erm, I mean, yes, good idea. I concur. On topic. Right.

This post has been edited by Nemesis: 14 July 2008 - 01:44 AM

[Scarred Sun]

Skaarg, on Jul 14 2008, 01:43 AM, said:

This sounds good to me. Some topics have gone pretty far off topic lately.

Just to clarify will off topic items still be allowed if they are noted to be off topic and if the post still contains other sufficient and quality material that pertains to the original topic?

Yeah, that's fine. Just don't derail the entire thread.

[Tweaker]

As a general rule, if you want to be mention something slightly off-topic, it should be a small mention—the main contents of your post should be on topic.

[Xkeeper]

I'm curious how you plan to accomodate "topic drift"... that phenomenon that occurs after enough posts, where the topic never got truly derailed but just slowly changed to something else.


...if anybody is curious, I am not going to be enforcing any of this and I don't consider my say in this to be above anybody else's; I'm only doing programming.

[Metal Man88]

I did notice a disturbing tendency for Member Forum topics to become about sex and curse words even when they didn't have any reason to...

[Sazpaimon]

Nemesis, on Jul 13 2008, 11:43 PM, said:

Did you know that OLED is looking on-track for mainstream use in TV's and computer monitors by mid 2010? Finally it looks like we'll have a display medium with decent picture quality back in the market in the near future, now that LCD has killed off CRT.

I don't know, I'm still hoping on SED techology to be released soon. In the meantime, I'm still sticking to CRT

I mean yeah on topic right sure got it.

This post has been edited by Sazpaimon: 14 July 2008 - 03:03 AM

[Aesculapius Piranha]

Ever hear of flow of conversation? Its this amazing thing where one topic can lead to another.

Topic changes = progression of topic. I'm sure most people are mature enough to keep talking about the original poster if they want to.
So yes, please do discourage free thought. I mean hell, the rest of the modern world does so too.

[Ambil]

Aesculapius Piranha, on Jul 14 2008, 01:21 PM, said:

Ever hear of flow of conversation? Its this amazing thing where one topic can lead to another.

That is already known... in this same forum.

[Jayextee]

I think a natural flow of conversation, yeah good. Great. Awesome. But, "natural" flow means that the topic it moves onto wouldn't be so far removed from the original anyway.

However, if the topic COMPLETELY CHANGES in the space of two or three replies, that's cause enough for a split, and anyone that seems to be posting with the intention of changing the subject should have their post trashed.

It's not uncommon for somebody to post a new topic beginning "Well I saw xxx topic and that got me thinking about yyy, so what do you guys think?", which I think is a good precedent. This is what should be done in favour of derailing.

[Tweaker]

Aesculapius Piranha, on Jul 14 2008, 07:21 AM, said:

Ever hear of flow of conversation? Its this amazing thing where one topic can lead to another.

Topic changes = progression of topic. I'm sure most people are mature enough to keep talking about the original poster if they want to.
So yes, please do discourage free thought. I mean hell, the rest of the modern world does so too.

I think you're completely misinterpreting the scope of things.

For example, the small tangents where you have spoken on a separate subject are perfectly fine, so you can keep doing what you're doing without problems. The problems here are people replying to a topic with something completely irrelevant, and people then doing nothing but following that new topic, completely defeating the purpose of the original topic.

Say you made a topic about a new car you got and all of a sudden people started talking about cocks. Wouldn't that annoy just in the slightest bit?

I don't know; on a message board, when I click on a specific topic, I expect discussion about that topic, not something entirely different. You can misinterpret this whole thing as much as you want, but I don't think it's anywhere near as ridiculous as you may think it is.

[Qjimbo]

I swear you look for any excuse to put "cock" in your posts.

BUT WAIT.... IS THIS ON TOPIC? I... I... DON'T KNOW!

DUN DUN DUUUUN

Funny seeing that old post from Quickman linked to, and my reply from 2004. Phewy that's going back!

[Jenna]

lol, see what I mean Tweaker, cocks are your favorite subject.

I don't mind the occasional topic shift. The star wars action figure chick evolving into a discussion about which gender is superior doesn't seem like a bad one, as the original topic is for the most part over. Everyone and their grandma has commented on that. But yeah, I see what you mean, discussion on my new car should not devolve into discussion about... a new puppy. lol

[SMTP]

I had a post of mine deleted yet it WAS on topic..