[WikiEN-l] Recent events (OT) Threadiquette

[Oskar Sigvardsson]

On 9/1/07, stevertigo <stvrtg at 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