Just a gentle reminder that - apart from “stay on topic threads” - thread drift is tolerated and that for the occasional case where it might be beneficial to split a topic the right way is to suggest it and/or ask me, not to try to demand that it be done because you don’t like the direction a thread is taking.
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But perhaps people could also let a serious query or topic run on its track for a while longer before pushing it into the drift siding. It can be frustrating when a sensible set of exchanges gets sidelined within 24 hours.
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I think some people don’t pay any attention to the context in which a comment is being posted. Are they reading it on a phone and cannot see what topic is being addressed?
My pet hate is the way the cheerful thread will suddenly get thrown into a miserable discussion about illnesses.
I thought that might have been me for my post about lack of response to @Roger_Lapin ‘s thread about Palestine Action (I see it wasn’t). Re-reading my post though I think I could have come across a bit ‘preachy’, so apologies for that, nothing was intended in that vein.
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Some of you may remember this thread…
https://www.survivefrance.com/t/totally-unscientific-survey-of-thread-drift-causes/53160?u=george1
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The food thread drift is quite often deliberate, when things start to get heavy. 
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I really do wonder what the point of drifitng away from the main thread is - why not start a new topic?
Because the drift is organic and usually over multiple posts each of which moves the conversation only slightly away from the last.
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Ditto Billy - but also it’s usually not a deliberate intention to divert from the main thread but because someone has an anecdote that’s only tangentially related, and that then sets the conversation off in a different direction.
Or because those of us who are of a humorous disposition see an opportunity to drop in a pun or two (mea culpa).
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No, those are puns in the worst possible taste lobbed in as a drive-by crime against anything that could be described as wit (just kidding )
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Of course! 
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