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Author Topic: Internet manners  (Read 4025 times)

Tack

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Re: Internet manners
« Reply #30 on: November 06, 2009, 06:30:35 pm »
True. Which is another topic for internet courtesy.

Is it a discourtesy to the OP if you derail the thread?
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Re: Internet manners
« Reply #31 on: November 06, 2009, 06:38:55 pm »
I think derails are a lot rarer than people think.  Conversations evolve.  The topic shifts as new ideas are brought forward.  If a topic goes from Pro-Skub/Anti-Skub debate, to less hotly debated forms of skub, to products similar to skub, to the economy, I don't see that as a huge thing.  If you go into the topic at the tenth post, however, and say "This economy is wack", yeah, you're being rude to the OP.
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Re: Internet manners
« Reply #32 on: November 06, 2009, 06:43:17 pm »
Evolving conversation is the one reason why only the topic of a thread in GameFAQs can be moderated for being offtopic.

Though I think forceful change of topic could go under trolling or something.

As much as people criticise that sight it does often have... well... Spelling.
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