Of topic discusion

I don't know the workload of the mods. But maybee they can as I suggested in the Iran to realise the sailo/ in Breaking news thread. Cut out intersting of topic discusion and put them their they belong.

Bergslagstroll said:

I don't know the workload of the mods. But maybee they can as I suggested in the Iran to realise the sailo/ in Breaking news thread. Cut out intersting of topic discusion and put them their they belong.

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Could you please rephrase that Bergslagstroll? I'm not quite sure what you have suggested here. ThankQ!

Tashah said:

Could you please rephrase that Bergslagstroll? I'm not quite sure what you have suggested here. ThankQ!

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Sorry what I mean is that I have seen other debate sites with what to appear to be the same "engine"/ programbase been able to cut out off topic discusion. Like for example if you have a thread about Iraq and then people start an pretty intersting discusion about tothpaste. Then you can take those post about tothpaste and put them in a new separate thread their they belong. And also you can put a message about that you moved the tothpaste discusion and also a link to it's new location in the Iraq thread. But as I said it depends on your mods workload and how intersting you find the off topic discusions.

From my perspective (my opinion only), "topic creep" can be a good thing. The example you gave is pretty extreme but toothpaste can be just as interesting to discuss or it could morph into a more fundamental topic. Everyone has the power to jump in and bring it back to the topic that interests them.

Another reason we normally do not break out off-topic posts might be for potential bias liability on behalf of the mods.