[GRUNZ]

Well in order to experience thread hijacking you need first to start a thread...mostly Dopamine and Wankel here like to post and hijack others threads...

Hey I am pulling your legs, ok! ;-) Just joking.

Anyway, I see the forum as a form of public gathering and should be a safe place where to discuss matter related to our hobby but we also to respect each other views.

For instance, by discussing this topic I know better which is the view of some of the members in this forum and I will try to respect that.

 

[Wankel Ickx]

Busted! Totally, utterly... busted.

 

[Merc_A]

I don't own the topic i started, but i do feel a sort of responsibility for it... for all when it's ongoing for a longer time, about something i build or made (say a topic about my track build).

Then there's less personal topics where for instance it's about a certain car model or slot car brand - there it's more about sharing experiences and views, making it a more "belonging to all" topic.

Merc

 

[Slotspeed]

The paranoia and neurosis expressed in this thread I continue to find quite amusing and illuminating.

Most is causing me to shake my head in disbelief but I'm smiling as I do.

Because...? Rhetorical.

Hi Wankel Ickx,

Will take the "Rhetorical" comment as a possible rib for being rhetorical. LOL. I think you get what the comment's intent was though.

My brother used to be into discussion forums and whatnot from the early or mid 90's and I found it interesting poking my nose in and having a look at the kind of things that were said. Pretty much anything would go, pretty much anywhere. You'd get flamed just for not punctuating a sentence correctly and hated upon for getting a tiny technical detail wrong. In my experience it is not so much the case nowadays and those who are more recently on board with internet discussions may enjoy a softer and perhaps fairer environment. And less random graphic images posted in the middle of threads for no apparent reason.

Of course most of us will have very different ideas on all sorts of things.

Cheers.

 

[portals999]

How do you feel if someone comes on the thread and rains on your parade?

You reap what you sow....

 

[nonfractal]

I rarely read the threads that are not strictly slot-car but this caught my eye...

I make 3 kinds of posts
1. "Look what I found" type posts
Slot.it tyre type summaries
Braking technologies
Throttles

2. "Have I got this right? " type posts
Motor mathematics.
Tyre preparation

3. "This is what i'm up to " type posts.
Tools, rolling roads , race night summaries, gearing tables

For types 1 and 2 , I actively encourage participation and even put a " feel free to contradict me" Disclaimer in the post.
I don't mind if the thread drifts, provided it is related and that I learn something useful.
However, sometimes a new thread would have been a better response with a link to it in the original thread.

Even For type 3, I don't like it when the thread drifts but Provided it doesn't turn into a Troll-fest i don't really mind too much.
Slotforum used to have a blog section that I used for race summaries and tools but first the galleries failed, then access to the blogs failed, now there appears to be no blog section on the forum so all of that information is lost.
A discussion thread is the only place to post these now.

On SFI there are not too many trolls. Some other forums are much worse with some really badly behaved trolls who's only objective is to antagonise. HRW has one particularly shouty Essex guy who's always reposting the same statement in a thread without backing that statement up with reason, mathematics or even an explanation.
I stay away from there. It's just a waste of my time.

Alan Wilkinson.

 

[Kevan]

You only own it if you can delete posts you don't like in which case post on FB or run your own forum.

 

[Grumpy Gaz]

Frankly I find the whole concept of "owning " a thread plainly weird.

it's a bit like "owning" a conversation in a bar room.

If I start a topic anymore and everyone are free to join in the conservation ...Whether they agree with my opinion or not.

 

[EMPO_Z102]

Supongo que el comentario iba dirigido en el sentido de iniciar un tema -por ejemplo- hablando de un beetle y acabar hablando de aeromodelismo.
Pero por otra parte, hay una norma no escrita en los foros que es que si al iniciador del tema no le interesa la dirección de los comentarios, ha de intentar reconducirlos hacia el "título" con que lo inició.
Por cierto, otra norma no escrita es que el último aporte debería ser del mismo usuario que lo inició.

I suppose that the comment was directed in the sense of starting a topic -for example- talking about a beetle and ending up talking about model aircraft.
But on the other hand, there is an unwritten rule in the forums which is that if the initiator of the topic is not interested in the direction of the comments, he has to try to redirect them to the "title" with which he started it.
By the way, another unwritten rule is that the last contribution should be from the same user who started it.

Frederic

 

[Wobble]

Why do you feel the need to 'own' topics (by the way, as an ex SFI admin you should really know the difference between a 'thread' and a 'topic'. I think you mean topic, right....not thread, this is basic forum terminology you should know).

Please enlighten me to the difference between a 'thread' and a 'topic'. It would be good to file it away for future reference.

 

[beardy56]

Alan, nonfractal said..

3. "This is what i'm up to " type posts.
Tools, rolling roads , race night summaries, gearing tables

Even For type 3, I don't like it when the thread drifts but Provided it doesn't turn into a Troll-fest i don't really mind too much.
Slotforum used to have a blog section that I used for race summaries and tools but first the galleries failed, then access to the blogs failed, now there appears to be no blog section on the forum so all of that information is lost.
A discussion thread is the only place to post these now.

It might me worth checking out the 'Showcase' option from the burger, site navigation, menu as it looks like you can turn comments of if you don't want members replying to the Showcase.

 

[merkit the grof]

I couldn't think of anything worst than a thread with a single guy pontificating, a bit too much like "nanny knows best" to me.

Joel

 

[Slotspeed]

I am sure we have seen examples where the original poster has opened a topic showing or maybe showcasing an example of their work but someone can't resist showing how they have done something better which completely detracts or distracts the topic away from the original post... While the original statement by munter started off with do you own a topic and something about raining on a parade, if you read futher, I think this is what he is getting at.

 

[Dr_C]

I agree with Joel…

Threads involving only one participant feel more like showcasing rather than useful discussion. That said, sharing unproven ideas has to be part of the fun. We can have interesting discussions about the art of the possible… and at some point reach a firm conclusion one way or the other.

This got me thinking… historically what was a forum? I realise this is slightly different from the opening question…

Anyway how about this… which I saw somewhere…

In addition to its standard function as a marketplace, a forum was a gathering place of great social significance, and often the scene of diverse activities, including political discussions and debates, rendezvous, meetings, etc.

I think the sfi forum does a good job of covering all of this… with one caveate… we generally self-limit political discussion to the politics of motors, gearboxes and track layouts etc. And IMHO we have the moderators past and present to thank for their help in keeping the forum open for all of above activities.

c

 

[beardy56]

I was just pointing out and option that is available in place of the blogs. I also totally agree that the whole point of the forum is to have a discussion about things and as in face to face discussions not everyone will agree or like what has already been said. If you you don't like the way the discussion is going you can either try to change it's direction, in a polite way, stay quite or leave, just as in as face to face meeting.

There are a few cases where comments probably aren't required for instance you can have a topic running for a clubs meetings or just general conversation and then you could link to a locked showcase to post the results of race nights. Another possibility would be to have a main thread on your car builds and link to a separate locked showcase for each car build with link back to the main thread. This was you can keep the details of the build clean but still have a discussion about the build. I might try this for my next build post as I have had a few builds where I have posted one day and the the thread has gone way of topic for a bit and the next build post is a page or two later and the build gets well broken up.

 

[portals999]

Please enlighten me to the difference between a 'thread' and a 'topic'. It would be good to file it away for future reference.

"A forum is equivalent to a folder which contains a collection of one or more discussion topics. You post to discussion topics and each post within the topic is called a thread."

 

[Dr_C]

I’m here to learn so I may be wrong, but I use the term ‘thread’ with respect to social media as below…

‘A thread is a string of messages that make up a conversation. Threads begin with an initial message and then continue as a series of replies or comments. Threads are essential to keeping track of conversations in most forms of online communication, including social media and email.’

c

 

[beardy56]

I have always taken it as the 'topic' is the title and the 'thread' is the contents of the topic.

 

[EMPO_Z102]

I have always taken it as the 'topic' is the title and the 'thread' is the contents of the topic.

Eso es correcto, pero con matices. Un tema no solo tiene un contenido, puede tener varios que serían los hilos.
Siguiendo con el ejemplo que he mencionado más atrás. He mencionado los aeromodelos RC a propósito de como hacer un techo de tejido, por lo que sería un hilo. El tema es el beetle, y todos sabemos que contiene muchos, muchos hilos.
Por supuesto solo es mi opinión y siempre lo he entendido así.

That is correct, but with nuances. A topic does not only have one content, it can have several that would be the threads.
Continuing with the example that I mentioned earlier. I have mentioned RC model airplanes on how to make a fabric ceiling, so it would be a thread. The theme is the beetle, and we all know that it contains many, many threads.
Of course it is only my opinion and I have always understood it that way.

Frederic

 

[portals999]

I have always taken it as the 'topic' is the title and the 'thread' is the contents of the topic.

When you create a new forum Topic the OP gives it a title and posts the message. When anyone else then posts on this particular Topic they are posting a thread as they cannot post a topic in a topic (they'd need to create their own new topic), A topic is a topic much like a spade is spade and a shovel is shovel.

From wikipedia (verbatim):
"A discussion forum is hierarchical or tree-like in structure: a forum can contain a number of subforums, each of which may have several topics. Within a forum's topic, each new discussion started is called a thread and can be replied to by as many people as so wish."

I expected ex-moderators would know the correct terminology for something so simple.