I’ve always thought that a “thread shit” has to contain something antagonistic toward the topic.
For example, if the OP said, “Do you think people should own more dogs?” and someone posted, “My neighbor’s daughter had lots of dogs. That was her excuse for not visiting her mom very often, which I thought was really sad,” which then caused people to start talking about grown children neglecting their parents - well, that’s a hijack, no? But while it might have been a less-than-ideal post, it wasn’t meant to be oppositional.
On the other hand, if someone posted “I don’t understand why anyone would own even ONE dog, much less several; only insecure people who need constant doses of mindless affection can’t stand to be without a dog” - now THAT would be a threadshit.
“into thread shit territory” is, I think, supposed to mean that it was close but not an actual thread shit. The main point of the moderation seems to be that the post is way, way off topic. And the other point is that it is just a note, with the post hidden/spoilered, so no lasting harm to the poster.
Oh, for sure. I’m not trying to argue that stopping the hijack in its tracks was unfair in any way. And yes, I got the part about “into thread shit territory.” But that still seemed odd to me - like saying, “this ice cream is so sweet, it’s into beef stew territory.” I saw the two items as different.
But now I know that the prevailing view is that the Venn diagram of hijack and thread shit can overlap. Ignorance fought.
If you read the section in the Troll thread, it seems that the poster who flagged it thought she was contradicting him for no good reason except to threadshit. I disagreed. I thought that he had misinterpreted what she was getting at (thereby not threadshitting).
FTR, in case anyone missed it …
Later in the troll thread puzzlegal commented that she may have overreacted to aruvqan. Which I think (FWIW) is a fair characterization. Both the “may” and the “overreacted”.
ISTM vehemence counts for something and aruvqan was real vehement. Obviously a topic in her history that sticks in her craw. Which is fine for her personally, but that hostility in the post sat oddly against the mild background of the rest of the thread.