User talk:DonDiego/Thread hijacking

According to what I find while Googling, the far more common definition for "thread hijacking" is simply "radically changing the subject of an existing thread" - possibly extended to include more extreme cases of topic drift, but certainly not limited to cases where the original topic of (or even the previous existence of) the thread is completely ignored.

It would make more sense to me to refer to that by a different name, e.g. "topic hijacking" (though I can imagine that being already in use for, say, channel-topic takeovers in IRC), but "thread hijacking" seems to already be in common use with that meaning. As such, if we're going to document thread hijacking here, we probably ought to explain both meanings. --- The Wanderer (talk) 11:47, 11 April 2009 (UTC)