# Thread Chains

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-chains/680055>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 29, 2014, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-chains/680055 "2014-01-29T18:29:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2014, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-chains/680055/1 "2014-01-29T18:29:47Z")

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There appear to be a goodly number of us who prefer not to hijack threads with spinoff comments, but prefer instead to start a new thread and perhaps link to the one where we were tempted to post a hijacking comment.

It made me wonder if there may be some situations, perhaps extending over a span of time involving weeks or more, where a new thread alluding to or quoting another thread gets alluded to in another thread and this process extends long enough for somebody to spin off of one with a topic almost identical to the original link in the chain.

I know I have participated in at least the third link in such a thing, but I’d have to go looking for the specifics.

Can you think of a good example of such a thing?

Here’s a hypothetical example:

1. Doper A starts a thread on Board Games
2. Doper B starts a thread on Monolpoly, linking to Thread 1 as a background point
3. Doper C starts yet another thread on Atlantic City with a comment about how Thread 2 made her/him think of the place
4. Doper D starts a thread on Susan Sarandon being in a movie with the title _Atlantic City_ because Thread 3 made her think of Susan
5. Doper E starts a thread on Board Games with a link to Thread 4 and an explanation that Susan Sarandon would look good as The Queen in a live-action chess game.