Thread hijacking

[Texan]

So, I guess my hijacking this thread to tell you how much I lust after you and want to wear your hat while bouncing naked on your bed would just frustrate you, huh?

hahaha.... cute.. little brat..... but this thread has already been hijacked..... so I guess that makes it fair game.....

Plus...... I know better than to believe you.... (you flirt with all the guys....)

 

[sunstruck]

Here we go.......

This is total bullshit........... This thread had nothing to do with "hate".... or "narrowmindedness"... or "whinning"........

YOU are one of the people who has been hijacking threads like YOUR judgement of what is "sacred" is the only judgement that counts......

This thread pointed out that there are some of us who don't like the practice of hijacking serious threads, WITHOUT naming a single name. It was YOU who came into THIS thread.

I don't know you either, and have absolutely nothing against you, in any way. I could not care less what is a "pet peeve of yours". I don't like thread hijacking...... and just because you think it's cute, doesn't make it so.

Ummmm you ARE whinning. And I never accused you of accusing me. I asked if you were refering to me.

I'm not trying to be cute. I'm not trying to be anything. But just so you know, this place isn't about you anymore than it's about me.

You made a statement, I argued it. You don't want argument don't make statements. Your call.

But don't expect me to shut up just because you want me to.

 

[RawHumor]

Read what Sunstruck wrote:

I won't allow myself to hijack a serious thread about touchy issues. But threads that perpetuate hate, or narrowmindedness, or whinning (a pet peeve of mine) are not sacred to me.

RH.... isn't this a thread that has been hijacked......???

Ahhhh... No, this thread was special though. LOL

It's like if I made a thread talking about how I hated gay porn pictures. Everyone who had them would post gay porn pics on it. That's just the way it goes. It's part of the fun for some of us.

And thank you for the compliments.

 

[*bratcat*]

 

[cutie pie]

*in my most whiniest voice* Guys, you started the hijacking without me. Can I still play??

Did I meet the minimum sentence requirements?

Oh, and Texan. . .your point was eloquently made. But you also opened yourself up for the obvious. I think we admiited hijackers have already acknowledged that hijacking serious threads is wrong. This one isn't serious anymore .

 

[sunstruck]

RH.... I have read your posts for a long time, and you are an obviously reasonable guy, with a fairly quick wit.


Read what Sunstruck wrote:

I won't allow myself to hijack a serious thread about touchy issues. But threads that perpetuate hate, or narrowmindedness, or whinning (a pet peeve of mine) are not sacred to me.

RH.... isn't this a thread that has been hijacked......???

Where in there did I limit myself to only those threads? This isn't a touchy subject.

 

[Texan]

[BOh, and Texan. . .your point was eloquently made. But you also opened yourself up for the obvious. I think we admiited hijackers have already acknowledged that hijacking serious threads is wrong. This one isn't serious anymore . [/B]

cutie pie.... you're completely right..... about this thread not being serious anymore..... so is RH when he points out that a thread about hijacking is going to be hijacked.

But you have to admit, that even p_p_man realized that it was "cliche" to hijack this thread.

Like I mentioned in my opening post, hijacking threads is a cycle that the GB goes through every so often. I've only been here a little over a year, and have seen it a few times before. Even some of the institutional members use it as a legitimate technique for handling yayati and (some of) p_p_man's threads.

I ask nothing more than good judgement from those of you who are doing this. It is not your decision to make when it comes to which threads are "serious". It is not your decision to make as to when a thread is "over". Many of the better threads on this board go for hours between significant posts.... then someone who comes to the board later adds something of significance to the thread. But if the thread was hijacked, no one is going to read through the BS to get to the next serious post.

When you hijack a thread, you have made a decision to KILL the thread to the original intent of the thread. Do you have that right?

It's not like there aren't other places you can exercise your considerable wit. You can start your own threads..... or you can dig up old threads, like RH just did with the old thread about Ginny and Tortoise...

Just use good judgement.... and let's let this hijacking cycle go around again....

 

[morninggirl5]

As usual, i'm impressed by Texan's ability to make his point.


Now, where in the lit world has he been hiding his gems that i haven't been seeing them?

 

[Texan]

As usual, i'm impressed by Texan's ability to make his point.


Now, where in the lit world has he been hiding his gems that i haven't been seeing them?

hello MG5....

with an average daily post rate of 2.33, you kinda have to look for my posts. You know, I think you could count the total number of threads I have started on the fingers of one hand.

 

[Cheyenne]

But if the thread was hijacked, no one is going to read through the BS to get to the next serious post.

When you hijack a thread, you have made a decision to KILL the thread to the original intent of the thread. Do you have that right?

I make it a point of ignoring the thread hijackers and posting back to the original topic when I get to the board later at night and I find decent threads buried on page 5 or 6. It revives many decent threads which died too soon.

 

[Siren]

 

[WhiteRose]

When people are trying to have a conversation and are continually interupted by childish antics, it gets extremely annoying. It's rude IRL and it's rude online and highly disrespectful to the thread starter and those attempting to carry on the conversation around all the crap. It's not up to the hijacker to determine when a conversation is over. Everyone isn't online at the same time, so conversations can take place over several days. Nor is it up to the hijacker to determine the quality of a thread. If you don't want to talk to the subject, leave the thread and start your own. One or two posts off topic don't bother me, but any more than that are obviously intentional.

Many times the conversation does die down as a direct cause of the hijacking. People get tired of trying to talk around two or three people carrying on and having to flip through page after page of unrelated garbage before finding a post that returns to the subject, so it's not that the hijacking happens AFTER a topic has been fully discussed, it's causing those who are trying to have the conversation to give up and leave. That's supposed to be cute?

No, not everyone participates in hijacking threads. There's a certain few who habitually destroy conversations by taking them over.

 

[carrie-on]

When people are trying to have a conversation and are continually interupted by childish antics, it gets extremely annoying. It's rude IRL and it's rude online and highly disrespectful to the thread starter and those attempting to carry on the conversation around all the crap. It's not up to the hijacker to determine when a conversation is over. Everyone isn't online at the same time, so conversations can take place over several days. Nor is it up to the hijacker to determine the quality of a thread. If you don't want to talk to the subject, leave the thread and start your own. One or two posts off topic don't bother me, but any more than that are obviously intentional.

Many times the conversation does die down as a direct cause of the hijacking. People get tired of trying to talk around two or three people carrying on and having to flip through page after page of unrelated garbage before finding a post that returns to the subject, so it's not that the hijacking happens AFTER a topic has been fully discussed, it's causing those who are trying to have the conversation to give up and leave. That's supposed to be cute?

No, not everyone participates in hijacking threads. There's a certain few who habitually destroy conversations by taking them over.

CLAP CLAP for you White Rose and also for Texan for starting this thread. I have had a couple of mine hijacked also and like you said it gets annoying and I abandoned the threads because of it.
It is extremely annoying!

 

[Laurel]

I agree. Everyone should do things at Lit how I want them to, damnit! Didn't you all get the memo? What's wrong with kids today?

 

[WhiteRose]

What's wrong with kids today?

They're all populating Lit.

 

[Siren]

 

[SleepingWarrior]

When somebody hijacks a thread I am involved in I just hit the ignore button until they leave the thread or the thread dies. That's what I suggest you do Texan because it is alot easier to do than trying to reason with those who have nothing intelligent to put forth.( On the subject they are hijacking)

Oh and don't forget about when the hijackers start whining about how its fun to hijack and you just don't see the humor or correctness in it. Hard to argue reasonably with those kind of people.

So in short... Just ignore the hijackers because they aren't worth your time.

 

[Siren]

 

[Laurel]

They're all populating Lit.

Oh yeah! I forgot...

 

[SleepingWarrior]

let me ask you something if I may Sleeping Warrior..........



have you ever answered someone's post to you in a thread?

be it on subject or not?





reason I ask is cuz if you have, and it was not specifically on the subject of the thread..........

then you participated in hijacking........


and then what you said is a lil hypocritical, dont you think?
or is it about degrees of hijacking..........
and if so, isnt that elitist?

I don't believe I have done so in the recent past (since I have been back) and even before it wasn't something I engaged in very often and never in a serious thread. Always did it in thread made for the purpose of talking to other people about anything.

And really, is being hypocritical all that bad? You , I and everyone has been hypocritical so thats quite a weak card to play anyway. So you can go on playing the defender of every poster if you want but I don't really buy into it.

 

[Texan]

Hello Siren,

I started this becuse there has been a small group on the board for the past couple of days, that have been very methodically hijacking otherwise serious threads. They aren't even on the board right now. They may be somewhere else in Lit, but I don't see them posting on the GB right now.

When I started the thread, (the first I have started in nearly a year) I just wanted them to realize that not everyone thought it was cute. They knew exactly who I was talking about because they came into this thread and said so.

Siren, I think you know that I do a lot more reading than posting. I don't mind at all when people start a casual flirt in the middle of a serious thread, but this was VERY different. I kept this thread on-topic by confronting the hijackers and talking directly to them.

Laurel, common courtesy isn't "doing it my way", it's just being civil.

 

[Siren]

 

[lavender]

 

[Siren]

 

[Texan]

Texan,

It's nice to see you posting again.

I just turned down an invite to be in your neck of the woods this weekend. In retrospect, I wish I hadn't turned them down. I miss it there.

damn lavender ...... I would have enjoyed meeting you.

I'll be home through the weekend.... then back to Mexico.

(you see, I really don't mind interjecting a casual flirtation in the middle of an otherwise serious thread).