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05-12-2008, 04:12 PM
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| Member  Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: California
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| What exactly is considered "highjacking a thread"? I don't want to make a mountain out of a molehill, but I've seen this subject come up a few times. I'm just wondering, what is the etiquette here as far as what's OK to post on "someone's else's" thread? |
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05-12-2008, 04:22 PM
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| Giving sober life a chance  Join Date: Mar 2007
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| Hijackin is like going off topic..I think. I dont know if there are other ways of hijacking. |
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05-12-2008, 04:28 PM
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| Codaholic Alcodependant  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Phoenix, AZ, in a home filled with love
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| 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. |
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05-12-2008, 04:34 PM
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| Forum Leader  Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Dancing in the Light
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| Generally speaking, the person who starts the thread introduces a topic or a question and the thread goes from there. The idea is for the thread to stay more or less focused on that member and his/her topic. But, as Morning Glory pointed out in her post, sometimes a hijacking can teach us a valuable lesson. In other words. I am here to learn, and however that happens, I will welcome it. |
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05-12-2008, 04:48 PM
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| Member  Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Portland, OR
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Wow, wikipedia. I can't believe there is actually a definition of thread hijacking out there.  | |
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05-12-2008, 05:52 PM
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| mle-sober  Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Golden, CO
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| I know, Stevevessel, right? Wikipedia is awesome. I use it all the time. My kids use it for their book reports too. Are we in the future or what? Every time I sign my name on one of those electronic signature pads, I still feel like it's not real. And email!! It was only 15-16 years ago I'd never even heard of such a thing and now I can't live without it. And another thing - when's the last time you saw a phone with a cord? So silly. And what would I do without my cell? When they first came out I thought they were so frivilous. Oh. Excuse me. Am I butting in here? Sorry.  |
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05-12-2008, 11:15 PM
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