There are periodic moans (or, at least, comments) about the way that ‘spin-off’ discussions often take over a thread after the OP has been dealt with as well as it can be (often in just a few posts, nearly always within a page or two) – and I am obviously a conspicuous culprit. Not only does this annoy some people who have no interest in the ‘spin-off discussion’, and potentially confuse OPs, but it also has some impact on those who are potentially interested, since the thread title often gives little or no clue as to the presence or nature of the wider discussion.
Goodness knows whether it’s going to prove practical (or whether I will keep it up!) but I, for one, am going to try to make a conscious effort to move such spin-offs into separate threads. The most obvious difficulty will be in deciding when we have reached the point at which the wider discussion is likely to be of no interest/relevance to the OP, so I’ll just have to see how it works. If it does work reasonably well, then maybe some others may decide to follow my practice.
Kind Regards, John
Goodness knows whether it’s going to prove practical (or whether I will keep it up!) but I, for one, am going to try to make a conscious effort to move such spin-offs into separate threads. The most obvious difficulty will be in deciding when we have reached the point at which the wider discussion is likely to be of no interest/relevance to the OP, so I’ll just have to see how it works. If it does work reasonably well, then maybe some others may decide to follow my practice.
Kind Regards, John
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