# GQ threads drifting off-topic . . .? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 4, 2020, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-threads-drifting-off-topic/914254 "2020-07-04T04:51:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-threads-drifting-off-topic/914254/7 "2020-07-04T20:23:26Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Cite? Some drift is allowable, but as I said I am less likely to allow a hijack into Great Debates territory than jokes or asides. That was the case that was developing in the Mt. Rushmore/Sioux thread. I remember a prior discussion being a long time ago, but upon searching I find it was much more recent that I thought. [About General Questions [complaint about a warning]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-general-questions-complaint-about-a-warning/846784) from January 21-22 of this year. > [@About General Questions \[complaint about a warning\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-general-questions-complaint-about-a-warning/846784): > > According to the forum description and the FAQ, GQ is about factual information. How do posts that start with “I hope” fit in? Shouldn’t that be in IMHO or MPSIMS? Okay, @Colibri’s remarks there are generally consistent with his remarks here, but I didn’t find it totally clear then either, that threads devolving into debates were forbidden once we got many posts down into the thread. Still, with a lively debate going about Sioux and Rushmore in that thread, and any factual question answered as much as it was going to be, why not just move the thread to IMHO or GD and let it continue? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-threads-drifting-off-topic/914254)._