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To no one in particular: Some recent 'Serious' posts have gone off the rails with jokes, insults, and bad language.
This was posted in another thread. I have been ambling my way through the information superhighway and its forums and dark corners for many, many moons now. One facet I never quite able to discern is the condemnation, the disdain for thread "derailment". Isn't this how conversation works in the real world. it twists, it turns, it meanders about. Very rarely do people stay completely focused on a single topic. Even the most serious of topics are open to absurdness or folly. Especially when friends are conversing, you can bet your bottom dollar, that if you utter some sort of blunder, true friends waste no time in letting you know this. Please enlighten me, what am I missing?
To no one in particular: Some recent 'Serious' posts have gone off the rails with jokes, insults, and bad language.
This was posted in another thread. I have been ambling my way through the information superhighway and its forums and dark corners for many, many moons now. One facet I never quite able to discern is the condemnation, the disdain for thread "derailment". Isn't this how conversation works in the real world. it twists, it turns, it meanders about. Very rarely do people stay completely focused on a single topic. Even the most serious of topics are open to absurdness or folly. Especially when friends are conversing, you can bet your bottom dollar, that if you utter some sort of blunder, true friends waste no time in letting you know this. Please enlighten me, what am I missing?
