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It was beyond ridiculous. Really against the spirit of community and conversation. 
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I have no idea what thread you're talking about or what the conversation was.  But sometimes, while an off-topic tangent may be interesting to some people, it can be frustrating to others who would like to discuss the original topic but are getting drowned out by those going off-topic.  If the tangent is off topic but worth discussing, just start a new thread.[/quote]

It was a lengthy conversation. Not worth the effort to rethink and repost all of the various points.

Just because hall monitor CAN report a thread doesn’t mean she SHOULD. It ruined the spirit of the community discussion. [/quote]

It may have ruined it for you, but clearly someone else felt that you were ruining the spirit of the community discussion by taking the discussion off-topic.[/quote]

Might I suggest, first, as a general fora courtesy, that if a thread becomes side-tracked, someone can point it out within the thread and the side-trackers can go start a s/o thread, posting the link for others to follow if wanted. Happens all the time without fight on other sites.

And second, that there’s no need to destroy the original side-track, as long as there is general civility, because it may be of interest to others who can then go through the conversation and find the new thread.

And third, if you’re called out on side tracking, to stop posting, “who are you, the forum police?”

As an aside, though, a lot of what some people honk is a sidetrack is still on topic, it’s just that people’s brains are either black/white or shades of grey. So I can see why a side convo. about dog grooming may be on topic in a thread about the best shampoo. Other editors might identify that as strictly off topic.[/quote]

Jeff, this thread is off on a tangent. Can you please delete it? PP, if you want to discuss how to handle side tracking, please start a new thread.[/quote]

A discussion of why people report side tracking is off topic in a thread started to discuss the merits of people reporting posts?[/quote]

Yes? We were discussing how we hate the hall monitors of DCUM.  Not how to fix the problem. If you want to fix the problem, create another thread. Stop hijacking this one.[/quote]

So report it for being off topic. See how that is supposed to work?[/quote]

I did? Do you need me to highlight the post included in this thread?[/quote]

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