Re: [B7L] Thread hijacking (was Re: Sally-speak)

littles@lycos.co.uk wrote:

But there's another sort of thread hijacking which neither of you mentioned, which is when somebody comes on the serious thread and makes a point, but does it in a silly way, say calling Blake "my sweet baboo" or calling Servalan "She who must be obeyed." Which IMO trivialises the the character, the argument and the poster's point, all at the same time.

Can that properly be called "thread hijacking," though? I mean, I can see where it would annoy you, but it seems to me that that comes down to less a matter of list etiquette as a simple matter of some people not liking other people's style or tone. Which, IMHO, is a very different matter.