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derailing a thread
The act of throwing a thread in a discussion forum off topic, oftentimes so much so that the original discussion is unable to continue.
A common result of a troll attempting to have fun at the expense of people actually trying to use the forum.
A common result of a flame war between multiple users.
Commonly helped along unintentionally by people who are simply off topic, as well as the occasional Grammar Nazi
A common result of a troll attempting to have fun at the expense of people actually trying to use the forum.
A common result of a flame war between multiple users.
Commonly helped along unintentionally by people who are simply off topic, as well as the occasional Grammar Nazi
Here is an example as might happen in the forum of an unreleased video game:
Topic: Post your ideas for things you want the developers to put into the game!
Original Poster:
Hey guys Ill edit my post to add ur ideas to this post Ill start off with destructible terrain no one's pulled that off as well as X-Com did back in the day.
Grammar Nazi:
Man Original Poster! What's with all of the huge run on sentence! Use some punctuation while you are at it too. Also, don't say ur, abbreviations are for text messaging, no one's gonna take you seriously.
Troll:
Haaahaaa, whatever Grammar nazi, ur so shtupid, wher'd u get ur PHD, shtupid land? n` Original Poster, wat u doin playin such an old game like X-Com for, it's SOOOO dated, I hate da graphics and der are so many bugs n crap
Original Poster:
Hey, X-Com is still rated the #1 game of all time by a lot of people! Who cares if it's got dated graphics, and if you get the right version or a fan made patch you can run it on a modern system easy.
Moderator:
Troll, stop trying to derail threads, this is your first warning, two more and it's a ban.
And Grammar Nazi, don't correct people's grammar in a thread, if you absolutely MUST do it, send a private message instead so it doesn't clutter up the forum!
I see you two derailing a thread every time I log onto the forum. And Original Poster, get back on topic or I'm going to lock this thread,
Topic: Post your ideas for things you want the developers to put into the game!
Original Poster:
Hey guys Ill edit my post to add ur ideas to this post Ill start off with destructible terrain no one's pulled that off as well as X-Com did back in the day.
Grammar Nazi:
Man Original Poster! What's with all of the huge run on sentence! Use some punctuation while you are at it too. Also, don't say ur, abbreviations are for text messaging, no one's gonna take you seriously.
Troll:
Haaahaaa, whatever Grammar nazi, ur so shtupid, wher'd u get ur PHD, shtupid land? n` Original Poster, wat u doin playin such an old game like X-Com for, it's SOOOO dated, I hate da graphics and der are so many bugs n crap
Original Poster:
Hey, X-Com is still rated the #1 game of all time by a lot of people! Who cares if it's got dated graphics, and if you get the right version or a fan made patch you can run it on a modern system easy.
Moderator:
Troll, stop trying to derail threads, this is your first warning, two more and it's a ban.
And Grammar Nazi, don't correct people's grammar in a thread, if you absolutely MUST do it, send a private message instead so it doesn't clutter up the forum!
I see you two derailing a thread every time I log onto the forum. And Original Poster, get back on topic or I'm going to lock this thread,
derailing a thread by ZOMGRLY? February 23, 2009
Make a thread about it
A commonly used reply on mx to stupid or whiny posts. Users of the phrase would eventually become victims of the ban-axe, but it resurfaced in a particularly hilarious thread, when a user retold an event of his day whence he had told an obese, obnoxious girl to "make a thread about it" whatever she was bitching about, which was interpreted as "have a period about it". User got in major trouble with authority. We laughed. The thread inspired others to admit to using web language by accident in real life. We laugh at them (me) too.
tears_fall452: Man guys, my girlfriend broke up with me, and now I can't focus. I'm crying constantly, and I can't think of anything to pull myself out. What should I do?
Strum:{QUOTE=tears_fall452}Man guys, my girlfriend broke up with me, and now I can't focus. I'm crying constantly, and I can't think of anything to pull myself out. What should I do?
{/QUOTE}
Make a thread about it.
Oh and die you emo bastard.
Eggo:{QUOTE}Make a thread about it.
Oh and die you emo bastard.{/QUOTE}
refl 123
Strum:{QUOTE=tears_fall452}Man guys, my girlfriend broke up with me, and now I can't focus. I'm crying constantly, and I can't think of anything to pull myself out. What should I do?
{/QUOTE}
Make a thread about it.
Oh and die you emo bastard.
Eggo:{QUOTE}Make a thread about it.
Oh and die you emo bastard.{/QUOTE}
refl 123
Make a thread about it by BigTrav September 26, 2005
hanging on by a thread
idiom used to express struggling in some way, barely surviving/getting by, or relying on the very last bit of wherewithal someone has to stay afloat in life or in a particular situation
"After spilling my coffee all over myself, hitting bad traffic which made me late to work, and receiving a negative performance review from my boss, by the time the end of work rolled around I was barely hanging on by a thread."
hanging on by a thread by louisaaaa06 January 26, 2026
get a private thread
the equivalent of get a room on the internet, especially when only text can be used. such as a facebook photo.
a: this photo looks so pretty!
b: hey (person a) you doing anything tonight?
a: haha, no, why?
b: you wanna go somewhere together?
c: GET A PRIVATE THREAD
b: hey (person a) you doing anything tonight?
a: haha, no, why?
b: you wanna go somewhere together?
c: GET A PRIVATE THREAD
get a private thread by WillSnipe4Rice January 3, 2011