# Should I start reporting what I consider to be hijacks? (GD) **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 9, 2020, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-start-reporting-what-i-consider-to-be-hijacks-gd/846194 "2020-01-09T23:24:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-start-reporting-what-i-consider-to-be-hijacks-gd/846194/1 "2020-01-09T23:24:29Z")
With the new rules for Great Debates, the staff are clearly calling for more focused threads with less hijacks. There are plenty of posts that I think are hijacks. Should I report them? I personally could not care less if a thread is hijacked by an interesting tangent. Almost all of the hijacks I see are interesting, because necessarily an uninteresting post does not get followed up on. There are times where I want to hijack threads, but I try to make a conscious effort not to do so beyond “would you like to debate this in a new thread?” (I am not always successful in doing this) I’m not 100% sure on the scope of the rules and my guess is that they do not align with my own personal vision of an interesting debate. I don’t want to bother the moderators by reporting posts that, to be honest, I like reading. Certainly I don’t want to see anybody _punished_. Most hijacks are unintentional and natural, methinks. But I also want to help. We are evidently coming out of some sort of Great Debates existential crisis, and **J, J & T** say the solution is more focused threads with less hijacks. Should I start reporting posts? ~Max --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-start-reporting-what-i-consider-to-be-hijacks-gd/846194)._