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By *oo hot OP   Couple
over a year ago

North West

The amount of thread drift in the politics section is appalling. Within 15-20 posts the OP subject matter often gets completely lost amongst attacks between posters and occasionally willfull deflection of topics. I get it that the Nods here are only volunteers and react mainly to reports but can’t we all try to do a bit better at keeping threads on track?

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By *urve BallWoman
over a year ago

North London

I agree. I'm, admittedly, guilty of it too and I apologise.

Maybe we could start an "overflow" thread or something like that? Where we could quote and reply to posts from various threads in order to avoid derailing their main subject/question.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes, it happens all the time as they try to twist what you mean, most of the time it is the pc brigade as they cant stay on what the topic is about.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I suppose it's easier to blame the shadowy "PC brigade" than admitting that conversations drift over time anyway.

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By *andS66Couple
over a year ago

Derby

AND the drift on the 'anti-drift' thread has started!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Everyone knows what you mean .Everthing is related to liberal feminists in Sweden who are secretly planning an Islamic caliphate in towns all over Sweden and the good and decent white Swedish men are being labelled racist for calling these pro Islamic feminist Nazis out.Any far right group who gains power in the EU are really nice people who should not be called racists they just believe in good old fashioned Christian white supremacy over all other peoples.

Did I miss anything...?

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By *asyukMan
over a year ago

West London

Thread drift I not inherently a problem as people do get into a back and forth.

What is frustrating is people who don't respond to the OP at all and then get outraged when asked to.

I'm not sure what the point is of posting on a thread that you have no interest in.

If I posted the thread I will ask that they stick to it and ignore them if they don't. If others only responded to on-topic replies the attention whores might give up

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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago

Hereford

It is not for nothing that I refer to this as the "brexit" forum...

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By *LCCCouple
over a year ago

Cambridge

I know what you mean OP, and I have been guilty of going down a rabbit hole on more than 1 occassion.

Although some many follow a conversation which accidentally goes off course, there are some on here who deliberately divert threads, and troll.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I suppose it's easier to blame the shadowy "PC brigade" than admitting that conversations drift over time anyway."

They now tell me I can't put electrics on my bath. It's PC gone mad. Great comedian who say old people mistake health and safety as PC.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's not on here. I worked on community software like this.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The forum is a conversation. I would imagine if we stuck to strong debating principals and called people out for not addressing points directly, straw manning, ad hominems, non sequiturs, topic changes etc, many will disengage. I’d prefer a range of voices here and accept the frustrations than turn it into a debating society. It’s why no one one either side can ever really claim victory. But that in itself is kinda good as it allows the conversation to continue.

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

It leaves many topics unexplored, whilst people instead post a reply to a subject that is almost certainly covered elsewhere - or could be.

It's better to have more threads than fewer, where a central theme is covered in each Imo.

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By *nleashedCrakenMan
over a year ago

Widnes

Do you think England will win the Cup?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The amount of thread drift in the politics section is appalling. Within 15-20 posts the OP subject matter often gets completely lost amongst attacks between posters and occasionally willfull deflection of topics. I get it that the Nods here are only volunteers and react mainly to reports but can’t we all try to do a bit better at keeping threads on track?"

So what do you think of brexit then!

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By *asyukMan
over a year ago

West London

Centaur ably demonstrating this in the "Trump the hero..." thread

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By *asyukMan
over a year ago

West London

Centaur v2, Ben.E.1 does exactly the same thing in exactly the same thread.

His hero Centaur just changed topic in the Boris thread.

I might be an idea to have a call-out thread permanently running. See whom our "winners" are

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By *asyukMan
over a year ago

West London

Centaur 2 again in the History thread

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By *entaur_UKMan
over a year ago

Cannock


"Centaur v2, Ben.E.1 does exactly the same thing in exactly the same thread.

His hero Centaur just changed topic in the Boris thread.

I might be an idea to have a call-out thread permanently running. See whom our "winners" are "

After all this time on the forum you still haven't quite understood or grasped how it works. The forum is like a conversation and when you're in conversation with someone sometimes one topic flows into another. You must be an incredibly dull person to engage with if you keep prompting people to 'stay on topic' when you're having a conversation with them.

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By *entaur_UKMan
over a year ago

Cannock


"Centaur ably demonstrating this in the "Trump the hero..." thread "

Not really. Your thread is about Breastfeeding and my post is about tits, not sure how well you were taught in biology class at school but breastfeeding and tits are closely linked.

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By *entaur_UKMan
over a year ago

Cannock


"The forum is a conversation. I would imagine if we stuck to strong debating principals and called people out for not addressing points directly, straw manning, ad hominems, non sequiturs, topic changes etc, many will disengage. I’d prefer a range of voices here and accept the frustrations than turn it into a debating society. It’s why no one one either side can ever really claim victory. But that in itself is kinda good as it allows the conversation to continue. "

Agree.

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By *asyukMan
over a year ago

West London


"Centaur ably demonstrating this in the "Trump the hero..." thread

Not really. Your thread is about Breastfeeding and my post is about tits, not sure how well you were taught in biology class at school but breastfeeding and tits are closely linked. "

Centaur doubles-down on trying to divert the "Trump Hero..." thread.

Predictable as ever. Well done defending your protege Centaur 2 though. Good boy

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By *asyukMan
over a year ago

West London


"Centaur v2, Ben.E.1 does exactly the same thing in exactly the same thread.

His hero Centaur just changed topic in the Boris thread.

I might be an idea to have a call-out thread permanently running. See whom our "winners" are

After all this time on the forum you still haven't quite understood or grasped how it works. The forum is like a conversation and when you're in conversation with someone sometimes one topic flows into another. You must be an incredibly dull person to engage with if you keep prompting people to 'stay on topic' when you're having a conversation with them. "

You don't engage with the topic though. Yiu deliberately divert or ignore it when the question is too hard for you.

It's the same as running away like your other hero Boris

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By *entaur_UKMan
over a year ago

Cannock


"Centaur ably demonstrating this in the "Trump the hero..." thread

Not really. Your thread is about Breastfeeding and my post is about tits, not sure how well you were taught in biology class at school but breastfeeding and tits are closely linked.

Centaur doubles-down on trying to divert the "Trump Hero..." thread.

Predictable as ever. Well done defending your protege Centaur 2 though. Good boy "

What 'Trump Hero' thread? It seems to be missing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Centaur ably demonstrating this in the "Trump the hero..." thread

Not really. Your thread is about Breastfeeding and my post is about tits, not sure how well you were taught in biology class at school but breastfeeding and tits are closely linked.

Centaur doubles-down on trying to divert the "Trump Hero..." thread.

Predictable as ever. Well done defending your protege Centaur 2 though. Good boy

What 'Trump Hero' thread? It seems to be missing "
why was it deleted ? Too much drift ?

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By *mmabluTV/TS
over a year ago

upton wirral


"The amount of thread drift in the politics section is appalling. Within 15-20 posts the OP subject matter often gets completely lost amongst attacks between posters and occasionally willfull deflection of topics. I get it that the Nods here are only volunteers and react mainly to reports but can’t we all try to do a bit better at keeping threads on track?"
yes I agree 100% on this but sometimes get lead by the crowd

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