Originally Posted By: drakino
Originally Posted By: Robotic
I've missed out on several interesting discussions because I haven't been interested in the original topic. Samsung pad? meh. Obviously something was going on in that thread, though, to have such a deep effect on the BBS.

Perhaps we should attempt to branch 'off-thread' posts out into new threads to encourage more interaction with each actual topic.

I've gone back and forth on this quite a bit. My personal preference is much like yours, topics should stay mostly on track, and new completely separate things should be in their own topics. It makes it much easier to go back and find something later, and makes it easier for people to know what threads to take a deeper look at.

This is why I made such a big stink in that WP7 thread. Some threads seem to veer off topic rapidly in such a way that it screams to be a discussion of its own.
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