# Hijack Policy 2024: A new hope **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 16, 2024, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-policy-2024-a-new-hope/1004303 "2024-07-16T04:42:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 25
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2024, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-policy-2024-a-new-hope/1004303/25 "2024-08-04T17:47:48Z")
The first bullet point of the **Follow moderator instructions** of the new rules for P&E and GD is the Hijacks > [@New Rules for Politics and Elections – January 2020](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rules-for-politics-and-elections-january-2020/845727/1): > > **Hijacks.** This is, perhaps, the single largest and most important change to the rules in Great Debates and Politics and Elections made in 2020. Staying on topic is a strong goal of Great Debates and Politics and Elections moving forward. Threads exist for a reason. Presumably, the original poster wants to discuss a specific topic. Posts which pull the thread away from that topic are hijacks. Some of these are inadvertent, some are not. Posts that seem intended to steer a discussion away from the original topic may be sanctioned. Hijacks may be, but are not limited to, posts that lead away from a topic, endless questioning, repeatedly asking the same or similar questions once they’ve been answered, and other maneuvers. Whether or not such is occurring is at the sole discretion of the moderation staff and may lead to official sanction. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-policy-2024-a-new-hope/1004303)._