Does it bother you if threads go off topic?

[donnashuggy]

Or if people make off topic posts in threads?

[cherry*135]

If another poster directly makes a post with a question to me, either by addressing me by ID or selectively quoting a sentence from a previous post of mine and wants to bring up something from threads long ago, or posts long removed (which are not up for discussion), then I am going to reply that I am not interested in discussing anything that is off topic

That happened a lot before the new changes, threads would end up with two posters going on and on about nothing anyone else was interested in or had anything to do with the thread topic and then others chipping in backing up the one that started it.

[youcandoityoucandoityoucandoit]

To answer the OP, no it doesnt bother me, I am able to ignore what Im not interested in. And sometimes I just cannot understand what someone has posted...its like when someone in RL interrupts a conversation..and some people do that continuously-with lots of words.

BUT it can be tedious, what with all the scrolling I sometimes need to do.

[just_me_karen]

It must be very difficult to know what the entire population of CS likes and doesn't like. I wish I could do that, but I prefer not to be presumptuous.

[izabsmiling]

I suppose if one person ever becomes the entire population of CS ...they would know what everyone on CS  thinks and likes and dislikes.

[joz*garage]

Does it bother you if threads go off topic?

nah not at all, and i doubt it really bothers the people who report me over it

...theyre just freakin dibby dobbers abusing the system, again again again......

[Anonymous]

Joe

[joz*garage]

Annie! hello x

'cept when going off topic is purposely used to trash the guts out of a thread, Take for instance one of mine the old tune thread which was then thrown into the underground F&G dugeon

Flockers

[izabsmiling]

not really.

I do have an issue when posters judge something as off topic and post to the whole board that what they believe is fact is so just because they state so is interpersonal and akin to using the boards to announce what they personally see as a violation

..it is an attempt to shut some members out of discussions and very close to them trying to or believing that they are an ebay employee with authority imo.It's a power trip

It isn't in the community spirit  at all imo 

[love*today]

Is this thread really over 6 months old??

[izabsmiling]

maybe all threads should all be locked after a certain length of time ?