# 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:** 39
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-policy-2024-a-new-hope/1004303/39 "2024-08-06T15:13:06Z")
From the Dem Veep thread this morning: > [@Harris VP choice for 2024 is Governor Tim Walz (Minnesota)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harris-vp-choice-for-2024-is-governor-tim-walz-minnesota/1004552/1351): > > Can we just pause and reflect that 18 days ago Joe Biden was the Presidential candidate? > [@Harris VP choice for 2024 is Governor Tim Walz (Minnesota)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harris-vp-choice-for-2024-is-governor-tim-walz-minnesota/1004552/1352): > > **Moderating** : In another thread, like this one [President Biden Dropping Out of Race](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-biden-dropping-out-of-race/1004540/) Oh **for crying out loud**. This one post did NOT lead to a huge digression and wasn’t likely to, at all, moderation or not, esp. given the momentum of the actual big news this morning. Given all of the huge changes in the political landscape in those fateful 18 days it was as innocuous as could be, and I myself after reading it chuckled at what has indeed happened in that time (until I saw in my peripheral vision the inevitable and dreaded yellow tinge in the very next post). It was PERFECTLY on topic, if in a meta sense. How the HEY is it remotely worth _any_ sort of mod note?! This is a PERFECT example of how this new **zero-drift** -tolerance policy will and has already impacted spontaneity, wit, color, and just any sort of harmless meta-perspectives of any sort here, with Dopers now constantly checking their replies for even the tiniest bit of drift, lest they get the wet noodle up their back. The other thing is that the mods are simply making a TON more unnecessary work for themselves policing all these tiny deviations (if that is what they are), on top of the actual ones of course, which note I am not arguing for. That’s a recipe for burnout, so I don’t know why you would put all of that unnecessary weight on your shoulders. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-policy-2024-a-new-hope/1004303)._