--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" <fintlewoodlewix@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > > > > As we know FFL'ers are too lazy to just start a new > > thread or topic so they just hijack a current one > > sometimes changing the subject line. They don't seem > > to know that the new topic is going to be way inside > > another one. Of course thread hijacking is poor > > netiquette but only on FFL would raising the issue > > create hackles. See it really is the Funny > > Farm Lounge. > > It annoys me when people retitle a thread to get a message > to just one person.
It's dumb, with a capital 'D,' and marks those who do it as newbies with no sense of netiquette and no knowledge of how things work on the Internet. I think it started with Robin, who falls into both those categories. People who do this have no concept of threads and what they're for, OR that they're on a group that invites chat *as* a group. If you want to send a message to a single person, as Bhairitu says, DON'T RENAME THE THREAD, START A NEW ONE. Brand new. Because of the braindead way that Yahoo handles threads, that's what one should do to be true to decades of netiquette among people who understand how things work. Some people read FFL "threaded," meaning that they're not reading the posts in the order they were posted, or by title, but in the sequence that they fall within a thread. If you rename the Subject line of a post, IT STAYS IN THE SAME THREAD and messes all these people up. They wind up having to read some garbage that has nothing to do with the original thread. This is far from the only way in which reading FFL is like dealing with kindergarteners, but it's certainly one of the most annoying.
