# What is "threadshitting" v.2? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 31, 2020, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-threadshitting-v-2/929362 "2020-12-31T16:42:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-threadshitting-v-2/929362/61 "2020-12-31T18:01:17Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Have you noticed that no one else in this thread is on your side? Is that how you decide what is right or wrong? ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-threadshitting-v-2/929362/62 "2020-12-31T18:03:02Z")
> [@Max\_S](#): > > First you say members aren’t familiar with the rule against threadshitting. > > Then you say, the mod should prevent threadshitting with some form of “stop it”. Yes. Words mean things. Telling me to stop posting useless things I get. Telling me I posted vile content and should stop is something else. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-threadshitting-v-2/929362/63 "2020-12-31T18:05:20Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > Is that how you decide what is right or wrong? It’s better than deciding what is right or wrong by a link to an Urban Dictionary cite with more downvotes than upvotes. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-threadshitting-v-2/929362/64 "2020-12-31T18:06:26Z")
I provided more than one link to a definition. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-threadshitting-v-2/929362/65 "2020-12-31T18:08:14Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > Is that how you decide what is right or wrong? You brought a subject to ATMB in an effort to change the board. So absolutely the fact that you are the only person who wants a change means you are wrong. Especially since what you are proposing is that the community change itself. So again, yes, that is the only way in this case to determine what is right or wrong. You are explicitly wrong here. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-threadshitting-v-2/929362/66 "2020-12-31T18:11:22Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > You brought a subject to ATMB in an effort to change the board. So absolutely the fact that you are the only person who wants a change means you are wrong. Especially since what you are proposing is that the community change itself. By your argument the only person to say slavery should be stopped in some southern state in the 1700s was wrong because they were the only person saying it. BS on the face of it. I know the SDMB can do as it pleases. If it wants to cling to an 18-year-old definition because “reasons” then fine. But don’t pretend it makes any sense. ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-threadshitting-v-2/929362/67 "2020-12-31T18:12:07Z")
Maybe it would help if we all agree to keep the current board definition but pronounce it differently for the benefit of confused definithing enthusiasts? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-threadshitting-v-2/929362/68 "2020-12-31T18:13:32Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > By your argument the only person to say slavery should be stopped in some southern state in the 1700s was wrong because they were the only person saying it. Get over yourself. You’re not freeing slaves here. Next time, don’t use garbage sites to argue your case and maybe you’ll get support for your pet definition of something. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-threadshitting-v-2/929362/69 "2020-12-31T18:13:58Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > I provided more than one link to a definition. Here’s three: > **[Urban Dictionary: thread-shitting](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=thread-shitting)** > > Posting off topic messages to a discussion forum. Usually, but not always, with purposeful intent to derail the discussion. > **[Urban Dictionary: threadshitter](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=threadshitter)** > > "Threadshitter" - Noun. (Thred SHIT ter) - Definition - One who derails, destroys, and corrupts threads. [https://faq.metafilter.com/221/threadshitting-and-threadsitting](https://faq.metafilter.com/221/threadshitting-and-threadsitting) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-threadshitting-v-2/929362/70 "2020-12-31T18:19:21Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I’ll tell you it’s an obscure term everywhere. I’ve been on hundreds of forums over decades and I’ve never even heard of the term outside of the SDMB. Indeed. I’ve been here over 20 years now, and I know “threadshitting” as that which was described by @Colibri. I had no idea there was any controversy over this definition. ---
**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:** [December 31, 2020, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-threadshitting-v-2/929362/71 "2020-12-31T18:19:39Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > Telling me to stop posting useless things I get. > > Telling me I posted vile content and should stop is something else. “Stop posting useless things” doesn’t communicate the same message as “please don’t post what the rules define as threadshitting”. If **Colibri** had written “stop posting useless things”, you would probably be here in ATMB arguing that you weren’t posting useless things. Or worse, you might think the mod note didn’t apply to your “useful” posts. ~Max ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-threadshitting-v-2/929362/72 "2020-12-31T18:23:41Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I had no idea there was any controversy over this definition. There isn’t. And we’re not changing our definition of threadshitting just because **Whack-a-Mole** happened to find one definition (out of many) that was slightly different than the definition that we use. This is just ridiculous. Thread closed. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-threadshitting-v-2/929362/73 "2020-12-31T18:23:48Z")
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