On 9/1/07, stevertigo <stvrtg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The original content of my post, under this subject
header, was about
the recent events involving a couple of our well-known and well-liked
admins, and apparent accusations of checkuser abuses.
The subject of how to deal with reading and catching up on threads was
secondary, although still somewhat related, but nevertheless off the
topic. This brought to mind the idea that people might integrate some
basic courtesy in posting threads which deviate from the core topic,
perhaps just by adding an (OT) in the subject line.
More to the point, condensing excessively long subject headers would
be good thing to do, particularly if they have words like "Nazis" and
"rape" in them.
-stevertigo
I can see your point, but don't really mind topics straying a little
as long as they stay in the same general area as the rest of the
thread. I think it's a good thing to let the conversations unfold
organically to the things people actually want to talk about. To much
fracture in the topics just tends to be confusing, I think (it's not
entirely clear to whom you are responding and posts on the same topic
go in different threads, etc.) However, that's just a personal
preference.
--Oskar