Hijacking threads

I thought there was a rule about starting a thread about a thread which is what this seems to be.

I cannot see any rule about going "off OP" I would have thought it was bound to happen. If enough people want to talk about the OP, or feel strongly enough about it will come back, if not it won't - just like a conversation.

I just wonder why this thread has not been "hijacked" by GNHQ and deleted as it breaks their current rules, but that's GNs rules for you. They are sort of amorphous.

More to the point my vacuum cleaner has just given up the ghost!

Loislovesstewie

More to the point my vacuum cleaner has just given up the ghost!

Now that's a sweeping statement.
You need to get it back on track. The filter might be blocked with rubbish.
(Just like a thread or two on GN which goes off course!)

PippaZ

I thought there was a rule about starting a thread about a thread which is what this seems to be.

I cannot see any rule about going "off OP" I would have thought it was bound to happen. If enough people want to talk about the OP, or feel strongly enough about it will come back, if not it won't - just like a conversation.

I just wonder why this thread has not been "hijacked" by GNHQ and deleted as it breaks their current rules, but that's GNs rules for you. They are sort of amorphous.

They only delete if a thread or post is reported.
Our resident MN /GN expert (hello Galaxy ) has explained this to me, but it's taken me a while to realise that this is 100% the case.
They don't tend to read their own site. Especially at the weekend. I don't think that they have many staff at the moment.

Glad to help fanny . I hope they dont read their own site in their free time. Coals to Newcastle and all that.

And if MN is my area of expertise I need to get out more. Of course I can blame lockdown for my sad existence.

But real conversations evolve like that. You can carry on talking about something else until the OP or other posters go back to the original thread.

Galaxy I honestly don't think that they read their site when they are working.

To be fair most people are having a sneaky browse of the internet when they are supposed to be working they just do the opposite.

M0nica

Froglady I am inclined to agree with you.

Thanks.
If it was me I would feel relieved that I wasn't the only one and might even take need of some of the advice offered to others.

Froglady
You are right, if you have a problem it’s always comforting to know you aren’t the only one.

I think the OP is talking about merailing. People who basically interrupt the thrust of a thread and turn it around to themselves and their concerns. Very different from a conversation naturally evolving.

We've all probably known people like this in real life. Constantly turn conversations back on themselves and their concerns with no thought for anyone else. Boring and self absorbed