07-30-2009, 12:16 PM
To "keep a thread on topic" you would have to outline all limitations of a set universe (the thread).
As this cannot realistically be done, I cannot see the relevance in enforing this - for that would be the only way. We are humans, we associate. I see it as fully natural that a thread becomes 'off-topic', thus the concept of 'off-topic' is not relevant in the first place.
So in practice, we can attempt to outline the limitations of the thread, but cannot enforce them as it would be very cluttered to create a new thread for every post.
Perhaps you should try to look at your relation to this problem more objectively, 3D Sunset. Is this something that brings you personal distress?
As this cannot realistically be done, I cannot see the relevance in enforing this - for that would be the only way. We are humans, we associate. I see it as fully natural that a thread becomes 'off-topic', thus the concept of 'off-topic' is not relevant in the first place.
So in practice, we can attempt to outline the limitations of the thread, but cannot enforce them as it would be very cluttered to create a new thread for every post.
Perhaps you should try to look at your relation to this problem more objectively, 3D Sunset. Is this something that brings you personal distress?