Comment by dang

2 years ago

Hey you guys, please don't go offtopic like this. Whimsical offtopicness can be ok, but offtopicness in the intersection of:

(1) generic (e.g. swerves the thread toward larger/general topic rather than something more specific);

(2) flamey (e.g. provocative on a divisive issue); and

(3) predictable (e.g. has been hashed so many times already that comments will likely fall in a few already-tiresome hash buckets)

- is the bad kind of offtopicness: the kind that brings little new information and eventually lots of nastiness. We're trying for the opposite here—lots of information and little nastiness.