--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: <snip> > Tom, over the years I have complained about the > post hijacking and got rebuffed.
Among other things, it was explained to you that the topic of a thread rarely changes within the space of one post--it tends to drift gradually over a number of posts. That isn't "hijacking," that's just what happens in normal conversation. I almost never see anybody here actually hijacking a thread. Rory didn't hijack this one; it had drifted a long way from the original many posts ago, with lots of people participating, *including you*, Bhairitu. When the topic has drifted sufficiently, it's easy enough to change the subject heading in the response, and folks should do that more often. But that won't disconnect the new subject from the old thread. Nor should it, because then it's impossible to follow the thread back if one wants to see how the conversation developed.
