Hijacking threads

[WilliamPitt]

13. But seriously...

I run a pretty active Facebook page (2,000 participants), and hijacked threads are common. You can't control where a discussion goes, and if you try, you will a) get bulldozed, and b) get rightly scolded for being too controlling over how other people choose to carry on a discussion.

Now, if a hijack happens on purpose because the person has an axe to grind and wants to deliberately derail the conversation, that's another matter. In my experience, however, hijackings happen organically more often than not, and there's nothing to be done about it.

People talk, is all.



Now, about that pipeline...