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unrelated to the broader tree discussion, but i find this comment incredibly indicative of the type of forum this is. only with engineers do you have to state y
by volkk 3y ago
unrelated to the broader tree discussion, but i find this comment incredibly indicative of the type of forum this is. only with engineers do you have to state your point and enumerate through all edge cases around how your idea can be interpreted even though GP PROBABLY didn't mean go back and live there until the end of his life. But even so, that's a derailment of the entire discussion anyway. You always have a person that needs to point out something inane like that which ends up causing a tangent discussion. On a forum, it's fine, you have threads, you can just ignore it and move on, but a lot of meetings & real conversations end up this way. there has to be a name for this because I want to call it something and then coach people out of it
- SoftTalker 3y ago> On a forum, it's fine, you have threads, you can just ignore it and move on Yet we're on a forum, and you're not taking your own advice?
- volkk 3y ago> On a forum, it's fine, you have threads, you can just ignore it and move on, I should note that ^ -- but it also proves my point. Digressions have gravity. And now this digression has created a complete fork of the original intended post.
- SoftTalker 3y agoWell that's how conversations go, coach. One thought leads to another, sometime tangentially. Don't worry, I'm done here now.
- nuancebydefault 3y agoHN comments are often a web or at least some thick threads of tangents. On most forums tangents are downvoted and labeled offtopic in capitals. In HN comments on the other hand those side tracks are mostly encouraged, I think that is a good thing.
- colineartheta 3y agoThis is so true.
- airstrike 3y ago+1 on coaching people out of it. Very well put
- smokel 3y agoA word for this might be "pedantic". (You were asking for a name, but I am trying to be pedantic here.)