On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 11:22:41 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 11:04:52 UTC, Chris wrote:
Ok, guilty as charged, but a lot of threads turn into [OT]
threads even if they start out as being on topic. This
particular thread was never on topic, though.
This needs to stop.
Sure, only it's hard to tell when exactly it goes off topic.
That said, [OT] comments are also important in a community as
they bring people together in a more casual way. What I've
learned is that people who are into D are a bit hard to tame
anyway.
There is way too much of it.
At least we know that we have real people here.
Is it possible to mark a single post as [OT] without turning
the whole thread into [OT]?
No. Once it goes off rail, it's gone.
Would tags help a search engine? Like so:
I'm on topic here. [OT] Completely off topic now! [/OT] Again on
topic.
It's unrealistic to demand nobody post anything [OT] within a
thread, and it's not the worst thing either. Small talk sometimes
leads to big talk. Rules (like mark up) would help though. Or
maybe have a section called "D Only" (or something) instead of
"General". The term "General" is too general :)
Question: Is this thread on topic or [OT] now? It started as an
[OT] thread and is on topic now, the topic being "to refrain from
writing anything [OT]".
