Eliminate the calories from the crust.

That looks delicious.

Maple syrup.

So good.

If you don't like bacon your wrong.

A lot of people never read beyond the title of an OP, or read just the first sentence or two. That can lead to a thread wandering off in weird directions, I think.

Lots of threads wander away from the initial topic. I doubt it's intentional.

thread hijacking.

Talk about an open invitation ...

"hijacking" you are minimalizing the trauma that real hijackers cause?

(there, i got my dickishness done for the day.)

I run a pretty active Facebook page (2,000 participants), and hijacked threads are common. You can't control where a discussion goes, and if you try, you will a) get bulldozed, and b) get rightly scolded for being too controlling over how other people choose to carry on a discussion.

Now, if a hijack happens on purpose because the person has an axe to grind and wants to deliberately derail the conversation, that's another matter. In my experience, however, hijackings happen organically more often than not, and there's nothing to be done about it.

People talk, is all.



Now, about that pipeline...

Whats the page Will?

Charlene is the first name.

Do you know of someone?

check this out!

People go off on tangents all the time. Every time they post off tangent, they are bumping your thread giving it visibility.

It could be intentional. It's a basic tactic to change a topic they don't like.

I wouldn't worry about it. Don't like where that last thread went, start a new one...

There's a hotel in California that actually still has an elevator operator. I got on and said, "Okay, take this elevator to Cuba." He didn't get it.

"Take me to Havana!"

Beat me to it.

nice.

I'm probably guilty of it myself, but I know it's frustrating. There are certain tried and true techniques that are particularly annoying: attacking the person for even writing a thread they don't want to see; coming into make some personal snipe unrelated to the topic; or making the thread about something they decide is more important.

Stay warm up there in Minnesota.

What do you expect?

I was the one who said no, because I didn't want to stop discussing with that person who was defending America's Wealthy.

Bryant

That tax thing sort of just happened.

If you participate in enough discussions, you can accidentally do this once in a while. But if it is pervasive for some poster(s), that means they are trolls, by definition.

Exactly!

LEMME AT THEM!

when that happens. They have a thousand other threads to talk about their issues, they don't need to hijack yours.

I just tell them to stop. Whether they do or not depends on how polite the poster is.

Honestly, I usually lose interest in my own threads relatively quickly most of the time.

Is the posters that obviously didn't read the entire OP or the linked article. The knee-jerk reactions sometimes are unbelivable. Or when posters are corrected on their facts, and then you see them repeating the same falsehood in another thread later.

Hijacking is also very annoying. I'm not a big thread starter, but as a reader it's annoying to see long sub-threads not anywhere close to the original topic.

If I'm looking down a thread, I've trained myself to take a glance at the indented posts.

Some of them are related conversations...But often they are the little hijacking battles between a couple of posters.

If its a thread I always figure no harm done, and am at least glad that they keep a post alive for a little while, which gives more exposure to the OP and related discussion.

Reply to posters that address the OP. Talk about what you want to talk about and ignore the others. If it won't steer, the OP wasn't interesting enough.

Of course, some tangents can be interesting as well. Just run with it.

After many years, I recently put a couple of the more acute 'jackers on ignore. If they want to post pictures/video that have nothing to do with the topic they posted on, they can go to the Lounge to do that.

pie crap or whatever is their own little pet project.