Niban Kaize
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Post by Niban Kaize on Mar 31, 2008 19:27:59 GMT -5
It's been preying on my easily amused mind ever since I first noticed it in my lurking... but just how much of a tangent are we all capable of?
In other words: what's the farthest anyone has ever gotten off-topic?
Inquiring minds want to know, yo.
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Post by Jones on Mar 31, 2008 19:59:53 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure a brief survey of just about any topic anywhere on this forum will answer this question for you. :(
Which reminds me: every thread eventually moves on to something else, but purposefully derailing threads = NOT COOL EVER. This is not AIM or MSN or LJ. Please stop behaving as if it were. Immediately hijacking threads other people have started to talk about unrelated things is rude, period. Start a new topic, or take it to one of the lovely aforementioned services. <3
(Not directed at you, Kaize, I honestly can't recall at this moment who has been doing it and I'm doing other things now so I can't be arsed to go digging. It's been a general trend lately, is all I'm saying.)
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Niban Kaize
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Post by Niban Kaize on Mar 31, 2008 20:16:00 GMT -5
^^; I totally didn't mean to offend. I was just asking in general what the most amusing digression was that people had ever had.
Sorry!
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Post by Clover on Mar 31, 2008 20:44:13 GMT -5
Kaize, I don't think she meant you, specifically-- It's one thing to get on a thread when the topic's been changed, and you're just responding to the posts that are THERE. It's quite another to purposely fuck a thread--and I HAVE seen that happening lately, and it is a little depressing, especially if there was a discussion going about.
HAPPILY: None of this really affects YOUR thread, does it? As a matter of fact, having a thread discussing tangents is perfectly fine--tangenting about it is cool. So no worries.
I think the worst I've ever tangented is.. the Handy Information thread that I started up in the Vampirates subforum. It started as a handy way to keep track of Plot Information--ages, relations, laws, home-countries, ect----and has tangented to the point where I don't even read it any more. >XD
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Post by The Star Fox on Mar 31, 2008 21:27:54 GMT -5
Tea and coffee might take the tea cake
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Post by Aindel on Mar 31, 2008 22:00:49 GMT -5
I think it all depends on how soon someone says something that can be latched onto and run with. For instance, if I were to remark (in a side note of course) on how your avatar is made of awesomeness and win, Niban, and how I sat staring at it for a few minutes in utter coolness, that may branch off into a small conversation about Kingdom Hearts. I would then mention somewhere in the conversation that I own a keyblade necklace, which would get us talking about either: 1. Other VG jewellery, which would lead into a discussion on jewellery in general, which might lead to a comparison of different people's piercings, or 2. A discussion on other KH merchandise, which would lead us inevitably to plushies, during which someone would mention how totally kickass Vampirates plushies would be. ....all of this from me making a small note on your avatar, in a thread about how we digress.
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Post by child-of-fae on Mar 31, 2008 23:37:32 GMT -5
it's pretty much what aindel said. or it could be a reply to two different people's psts at once.
(like what i'm doing right now--and jones i'm not trying to purposely de-rail the thread, i'm making a sidenote, sorry-- Fox, hasn't tea and coffee stayed pretty much within the boundaries of tea and coffee? I think the farthest off topic is about how starbucks is a big business thinger.)
The thing is, after you've been on the foorum enough, you just end up going with the flow. it's retty strange, but i don't really notice it that much anymore. (though the most amusing time we've gone off topic, imo, is when we start looking at the ads. they're always fun)
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Post by acilf on Apr 1, 2008 0:12:09 GMT -5
umm *cough* i may have contributed to a few topic changes the other day when naoise and I happened to be on at the same time... Sorry! Please don't hurt me too much!
umm but I'd have to say my thought to the most off-topic thread would by nanashi's "ideas" thread that digressed at about the end of the 2nd page and now 10 pages later is talking about how suprised Naoise is that nanahi's a vegabond.
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Post by naoise on Apr 1, 2008 5:57:37 GMT -5
aaa! I'm probably guilty as well! But if I am I really don't mean to do it! I'll try to pay more attention!
My MSN address is on my profile page also, so I really don't mind if people add it.
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Post by acilf on Apr 1, 2008 9:40:06 GMT -5
hmmm... email address? time to stalk?
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Post by naoise on Apr 1, 2008 9:45:02 GMT -5
XD If I don't respond, its cause I'm actually away but never turn off my computer!
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Post by acilf on Apr 1, 2008 9:48:01 GMT -5
I used to do that but now I have to turn off computer at night because I havn't been sleeping well and it would keep me awake.
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Post by naoise on Apr 1, 2008 9:51:16 GMT -5
aaa! If I turn mine off, my room is too quiet! Its creepy XD
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Niban Kaize
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Post by Niban Kaize on Apr 1, 2008 10:10:26 GMT -5
*amused* Yeah, this is how digression starts.
But to continue on, I think my worst tangent on a thread of conversation was when I was talking about math with a friend... and eventually we began to talk about a teacher's scary smile and how we were sure she was a serial killer. And it just went on from there.
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Post by naoise on Apr 1, 2008 14:05:34 GMT -5
Sounds like a scary conversation!
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