# Accusing someone of Threadshitting **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accusing-someone-of-threadshitting/720627 **Category:** About This Message Board **Created:** [May 23, 2015, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accusing-someone-of-threadshitting/720627 "2015-05-23T01:15:52Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 18
### Author: ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure) #### Post date: [May 23, 2015, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accusing-someone-of-threadshitting/720627/18 "2015-05-23T21:38:36Z")
This was the entirety of Peter’s post: > [@Who started the Jesus with long hair idea?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-started-the-jesus-with-long-hair-idea/720400/97): > > You are entitled to your opinion. You are not entitled to threadshit. Discussing whether or not Jesus was real is off topic. Please take it to another thread. That looks like Jr. Modding to me. > [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > In the first place, I’m not mounting a defence. Just trying to clarify the rules so I don’t break them in future. That’s a good and reasonable attitude. With that in mind, best practice IMHO would be to politely point out that Czarcasm is engaging in an hijack of the thread. The idea isn’t to shut him down, but rather to point at that his posts are irrelevant to the main question. (I’m not sure his posts _are_ in fact irrelevant: I’m just attempting to re-express your position in an appropriate manner.) I’ll note that hijacks are permissible and occur, but that it is polite to acknowledge them as such. (As for your examples, one was a perfect match, the others less so, again IMHO.) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accusing-someone-of-threadshitting/720627)._