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 Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:06 am
I've noticed that there is a lot of stress here put on staying on topic. I'm having trouble understanding why. We're not in a consequential debate where the lack of maintaining the topic is important for any specific reason.
Intelligent discussions that happen in real life ebb and flow through tangents and side topics constantly. Sometimes they come back to the original topic and sometimes they end up someplace far more interesting. Sometimes both.
What do you folks think? What do you prefer? What is making my nose itch so much?
Inquiring minds want to know.
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Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:16 am
Inquiring mind reporting.
I love discussion of any kind, and since there aren't 100 different topics in this forum, topics that have or haven't been talked about spring up in discussions of ever kind. But they are obviously connected with the topic at hand in some way, I mean you don't talk about Abortion in a Global Warming Topic.
But if a discussion arises about something not entirely connected with the original train of thought, who cares? Why create a new thread about something that can be easily discussed in the one it's in?
Makes no sense to me.
Besides, variety is better for the mind.
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Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 12:05 pm
From my point of view as mod, it's just a way to keep things a little more organized, so as to maintain focus on the subject that's under discussion. If you go off on a tangent, that's natural, but if it doesn't relate back to the main idea then it just confuses people that want to jump in and contribute.
I'll try and let the discussions grow a little more organically if that's how people feel about it. wink
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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 5:15 pm
I guess that getting a tad off topic is fine, as long as you manage to get back on again.
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