# How is this not trolling? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 5, 2023, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-not-trolling/982215 "2023-04-05T19:30:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 14
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2023, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-not-trolling/982215/14 "2023-04-13T18:07:51Z")
How meta. 🙂 Hijacking the trolling thread to talk about hijacking. It may not bother some, but it bothers the people who flag it regularly. When they do, you need to let me know how we’re supposed to get around this rule change, made in 2020: > [@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. It’s a delicate balance to decide when some hijacking becomes too much hijacking. I think we’re all open to suggestions on the subject. If you feel the rule should be modified, please let us know that, along with your specific suggestions on how we might be guided. Preferably in a thread dedicated to that discussion. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-not-trolling/982215)._