Does the Discourse software allow nested posting? That would clear all of this up, wouldn’t it? People could then reply to hijacks all they want but those replies would all stay hidden under the hijack they were responding to. Only folks interested in the hijack need to see the hijack conversation. And this would avoid the need to start a whole new thread just to ask a simple side question and would allow discussion of side topics which can sometimes be more interesting than the OP.
No, it does not.
Thanks for the answer.
And would cause massive confusion, because people would post on-topic things as a reply and wind up getting them nested, causing the thread to in effect devolve into a mess of hidden subthreads; replies to some of which would pop up unpredictably in the main thread whenever somebody replied to the thread instead, but would make no sense without the hidden posts.
They are working on it …
Same for me.
Don’t say I didn’t do anything for you… here’s an AI assisted tool I created to analyze whether or not your reply is considered on-topic based upon the OP.
And since I get charged for AI use, I limited this to 50 uses per day, 5 per IP. And yes, I’m sure many here can break past these limits with little effort, but be kind.
I had a reply to the United States and Israel are bombing Iran thread this morning, but I held off when I saw @What_Exit was posting a mod note.
According to your bot, my instincts were right. To be honest, Sarcastic Jesus was pretty nice about the whole thing:
Therefore, My child, though thy thoughts be deep and thy understanding vast, thy reply hath indeed taken a wide turn from the narrow path prescribed. It hath become a commentary upon the whys and the wherefores and the what-nexts, when the initial scripture merely announced the what and the who. Beware, lest by expanding the scope, thou risketh to overshadow the original message with a new sermon entirely.