Ironically, your constant reference to thread hijacking sounds just like thread hijacking. It’s a broken record kinda thing.
Cindie
I guess the alternative is to hit abuse a dozen times, but that’s not my style really. Anyway, my point is to point out the hijacking, and bring the discussion back on topic. Most of my “off-topic” posts included a discussion of the topic to try to lure those freepers into the conversation.
It’s something they taught us in meeting facilitation. Since in the real world, I’m usually the one dragging conversations off into the nether regions, I thought I’d try my training here. Didn’t work very well, most of those who came here didn’t really want to discuss Cain’s position on guns.
It also serves my own purpose. See, I don’t have a candidate, but I used to feel obligated to defend candidates I liked if they were falsely attacked. Then since the anti-Perry folks were hijacking every political thread with their attacks on Perry, I was spending way too much time answering those attacks again and again.
But I found that if I was in a thread, and an attack was made and I didn’t immediately answer it, someone would start pestering me, like happened in this thread, with those “I asked you a question, why aren’t you responding” posts.
So I decided I would simply stay out of the threads that were posted to attack people I like. That way I can’t be expected to post responses.
But unfortunately, they are still spamming all the other threads. And so I point out that they are off-topic, and that I will NOT be discussing their off-topic remakrs. That way they don’t get to claim that their false charges are “unopposed”.