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Moderators?IHAQ wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 9:42 amAre you saying the moderators will only respond to off topic notifications providing the notifier hasn't responded to the off topic posts being reported?Dr. Shades wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 7:32 amSeemingly nine times out of ten, the person who reports a thread jack does so only after he or she has responded to the thread jack half a dozen times.
Physics Guy wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 9:40 amMy experience is that different boards, and different people on the same board, often have different ideas about what threads are supposed to be. Some think that a thread is supposed to stick to its original topic and when it runs dry, die with honor. Others think of message board threads as conversation topics which just naturally drift. The original topic is for time only, as it were.
There are things to be said for both approaches, I think. For what it's worth I'd rather err on the side of having too much threadjacking, because at least that's more lively. Erring on the opposite side tends to reduce board activity overall, it seems to me. If a thread gets jacked there's always the option of jacking it back again, and reverting to the original topic with a post that attracts more attention.
(Seeking a term for that, I considered "threadjilling", but even apart from another tendentiously gendered term being the last thing we need, I find it just hard to say. I propose "backjacking" for how it rolls off the tongue.)
Good call. Defining 'jilling' as cleaning up after 'jacking' opens up the possibility for just WAY too many gendered tendentions!!!I think you're onto something, here. Add your notes on hijacking and 'hijilling' to the sci fi book you're writing, I can see a really interesting application arising, along the lines of Pat Cadigan's approach, for example: "The Girl-Thing who Went Out for Sushi"Physics Guy wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:35 pmYes, rejecting “jilling” just seems like a better call the more I think about it. But some kind of snappy term would be useful for something that’s often going to be useful to do in a snappy way.
I read somewhere that “hijack” is supposed to come from bootleg liquor shipments getting taken over at gunpoint by rival gangsters with the somehow traditional greeting, “Hi, Jack!” instead of such another catchphrase as, “Hands up!” It’s credible, barely, but hardly convincing.
It might be worth keeping “hijill” in mind for some possible use, if one appeared that seemed a reasonable parallel.
What is going on in that clip?Physics Guy wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:24 pmThat is an awesome clip that I might want to show for a class some time. Entropy, people: do not try to mess with it.
Oh, that's just MG doing his Mormon testimony thang.... be patient, it shall pass... He knows deep down he is bankrupt. We know right up front he is bankrupt. As a Mormon he has to pretend there is still something there for a little while. He's almost as good a master pretender as Peterson and Midgley... almost.malkie wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 4:04 amIs it only me, or does anyone else notice a pattern here.
1. Someone starts a thread.
2. Others comment on topic.
3. Someone highjacks the thread, usually with some little quibble.
4. Half the thread devolves into side discussions that are completely off topic.
I'm pretty sure it's a jar of supersaturated solution of something—I think it might even be obvious what, if I knew more chemistry. The solution can sit in the jar for hours at least, maybe even much longer, as an apparently stable clear liquid. It isn't really stable, though, only what's called "metastable". If it gets even a small disturbance of the right kind, the transition to the real stable state will begin and take off like an avalanche. The jar fills up with precipitate.
