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Originally posted by chewy-bacca
I mean like polite things 
.....you can say what ever, but if it dont fit the topic, its out of line.
Whats so hard about hitting that button that say "new topic" and then going off on a tennis tirade.
If there are no unwritten rules, I guess you never hold doors for women, or let ppl out of an elevator b4 you get on. Or let someone out in traffic. its called common sence. the people that dont understand how a board works dont seem to have any.
Im not talking cencorship. I guess I change topic subjects to things I like from now on.
.....you can say what ever, but if it dont fit the topic, its out of line.Whats so hard about hitting that button that say "new topic" and then going off on a tennis tirade.
If there are no unwritten rules, I guess you never hold doors for women, or let ppl out of an elevator b4 you get on. Or let someone out in traffic. its called common sence. the people that dont understand how a board works dont seem to have any.
Im not talking cencorship. I guess I change topic subjects to things I like from now on.
But discussion forum etiquette? How do you legislate what someone can or cannot say in a conversation? Use my bar analogy for a second: would you honestly tell someone that you're hanging out with to "shut up, that's off-topic?" Conversation is a fluid thing. Sometimes it goes the way you want it to and sometimes you have to talk about shit that you don't want to. If you tune out the person you're conversing with because the conversation goes a direction that you don't like, THAT is rude.
I do see your "New Topic" point though and agree that it could've been taken to the RR. But Partial wasn't "required" by conventional etiquette to do so. Using the bar analogy again, he was just taking the chatter in a different direction with group of people that were watching the game. It was a VERY boring game and not much positive for Packer fans to talk about. If the topic had veered off into music or movies, I would've went there. But it went into tennis, something I haven't been interested in since Agassi had long hair.
So you're telling me that if the conversation had veered off into talking about what Mark Chmura is up to now, instead of strictly talking about the game at hand, that you would've told him to take it to the RR?
Be reasonable. You didn't want to talk about tennis and got annoyed that there was a conversation going on during the game about tennis. If the conversation was something else other than tennis, you may have participated.
tyler
We all know topics can get off track very easily. The gripe with the t talk was that 1) it went 11+ pages (more than a bit off track) and 2) at least 4 people asked that the t talk go elsewhere and were ignored. 
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