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Originally Posted by Astro  Well, here's Wikipedia's take on the whole matter......
Thread hijacking in internet forum communication is the act of steering a discussion off-topic by discussing a subject entirely unrelated to the subject at hand.
While this can be an intentional act of trolling, it is often accidental - caused by participants in the discussion responding to a throwaway remark, thus taking the thread off at a tangent to the original subject matter. The results often provoke a feeling of resentment from the author of the original post. |
Wow, wikipedia. I can't believe there is actually a definition of thread hijacking out there.
