Quote from Richard on Jul 17^th, 2007, 10:05am:

Just in case you might have gotten the wrong impression, my comment about bikejournal wasn't a shot at you, Richard.  I don't think there's anything wrong with thread drift, because that's just the way conversation works.  
 
I was referring to Paul's comment about thread hijacking, which, along with trolling and whining, has sadly become too much of a common pasttime over on the bikejournal forum.  
 
Also, my apologies for pulling this thread further off course.  Shutting up now.  

That's the way I see it too.  Each thread may start as a different topic, but as more and more people come and sit around the table, conversation goes in tangents.   I've been on chat software since LONG before teh intarweb, so that's what I got used to doing as a SysOp myself back in the day.

No offense taken. I was simply thinking that Maliciuos Trolls would be a good name for the 4 man team.
And besides, there is a lot I don't know about online etiquette. I think this post has done it again.