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The rule against off-topic posts/hijacks is going to start being strictly enforced

[Insert Acts Pun Here] Posts: 13654 **10/6/15 7:20 am**

The Acts-celerate Terms of Use state:

Acts-pert Poster Posts: 15570 **10/6/15 1:58 pm**

Trippy, in the thread you hightlighted, the OP mentioned WOF. I responded directly to WOF error. Hey, I couldn't help it ole John Jett posted at pic of a full grown serpent seed. Cool

Golf Cart Mafia Consigliere Posts: 3382 **10/6/15 2:08 pm**

Hey DD, does that include hijacking parody threads Very Happy

[Insert Acts Pun Here] Posts: 13654 **10/6/15 2:35 pm**

[Insert Acts Pun Here] Posts: 13654 **10/6/15 3:03 pm**

Golf Cart Mafia Capo Famiglia Posts: 4955 **10/6/15 3:28 pm**

I've removed the serpent seedling, should I have used something more like this to make the bad-theology point totally relevant to the discussion?

[Insert Acts Pun Here] Posts: 13654 **10/6/15 3:39 pm**

[Insert Acts Pun Here] Posts: 13654 **10/6/15 6:06 pm**

You know,

Golf Cart Mafia Associate Posts: 2109 **10/6/15 6:50 pm**

I guess I won't go there.
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Acts-pert Poster Posts: 15570 **10/6/15 7:17 pm**

I'm tellin you fellers, ole Dave is a right busy feller to be "On Sabbatical." Cool

Hon. Dr. in Acts-celeratology Posts: 5923 **10/6/15 9:15 pm**

I'm glad to hear this too. I've been wondering lately if we would ever have any meaningful conversation on here again.
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Acts-celerater Posts: 755 **10/7/15 9:18 am**

I find this to be an attack primarily aimed at OTCP and it seems to me to be asinine and childish.

Just offering an observation.

Big brother approach

Friendly Face Posts: 496 **10/9/15 9:07 am**

I haven't read the offending post, however, this general attitude lends an air of big brother watching our every move. I'm ADD and have a very difficult time staying on topic - within my own posts. However, even for normal people, isn't being "off topic" in the eye of the beholder?

In my opinion, responding to posts are a form of artistic expression as literature is considered a form of art. Often, I have an off-beat approach to a lot of topics, thereby, am I always guilty of hijacking? IMO, hijacking would be interjection of some type of advertisement or something along those lines -- not by adding humor, or offbeat commentary on a serious thread.

The result of this censorship will be posts that may be "intellectual", but boring. If one wants pure intellectual discussion, then read your professional journals. Can't the humorless posters simply skip past the posts that interject humor to read the serious responses.

Seriously, I do think this heavy handed approach results in squelching response because we (or at least I) never know when the big brothers watching over me will consider my post to be hijacking. IMO, hijacking is in the eye of the beholder.

Is this REALLY where we want to go? We have enough political correctness in our everyday world. Why can we not have a forum where we have the freedom to be ourselves without the threat the censorship and banning.

GOOD GRIEF

[Insert Acts Pun Here] Posts: 13654 **10/9/15 10:02 am**

Methocostal,

The points you make are very fair. As a result, please understand that the rule will be enforced with an extremely light hand.

The enforcement of the rule is aimed at gratuitous hijacking of threads -- threads in which a poster submits something that is very off-topic and/or endeavors to turn a thread toward his or her pet topic. Humor, offbeat commentary, or anything else that is reasonably relevant to the thread at hand is not a violation of this rule. Taking a thread that someone posted about topic Y and trying to redirect it toward topic X is.

Thanks for your thoughtful remarks. If you have any other questions we would be glad to answer them, and if you have any other points we would be glad to consider them.