EpsilonX
12-02-2010, 08:25 PM
So the way I see it, people make topics about whatever they want, right? But when people make a topic, do they necessarily have "control" over the topic? In some cases, yes, such as if you posted a topic for advice, you're gonna have a little bit more control, but if you make a topic about a new game thats being announced, or a new movie that's announced, I don't see any kind of control over what goes on in the topic aside from just simply posting in it. But sometimes I see people make a topic and defending the topic like it's their homestead. It's like "this is my topic, this is what you post in it. If you wanna post something else, make your own topic" But I think the way it really should work is a topic is like an umbrella. or maybe a parabola. We'll go with parabola. It starts at one point, but it as it goes on, it gets wider and wider. The conversation can go wherever it wants, as long as it fits. So if people want to discuss something that stems off from a certain topic, they should be able to, no?
Here's an example. Take the topic I made about Onlive. It's a system that handles all the processing in another location and streams the image back to you. People could talk about whatever they want that's related, be it the controller, or whether or not the current internet infrastructure is going to be able to handle something like this reasonably, or whatever. Me, as the topic creator, should I be able to say "no you have to talk about the system itself, and not whether or not the internet can handle the streaming well enough. Go make that topic elsewhere, or does that seem weird?
Personally, I feel as if the topic should be allowed to take whatever direction it wants, as long as it generally stays somewhat related. If a topic about OnLive magically transformed into Talking about what brand of kitty litter works best, I'd say something's up. This also leads me to another point, i've seen topics here closed for seemingly no reason. It's an old topic, but there was a resident evil 5 topic at one point, and it got closed. I still wanted to discuss the topic, but I couldn't. There was also a topic from other saying he changed his name to linx before the band, and that got closed like 3 posts in for no reason...I mean, it got re-opened later, but I figured i'd bring this up as well as long as i'm on a similar topic, though it isn't a big deal, or a deal at all, just somethin.
Here's an example. Take the topic I made about Onlive. It's a system that handles all the processing in another location and streams the image back to you. People could talk about whatever they want that's related, be it the controller, or whether or not the current internet infrastructure is going to be able to handle something like this reasonably, or whatever. Me, as the topic creator, should I be able to say "no you have to talk about the system itself, and not whether or not the internet can handle the streaming well enough. Go make that topic elsewhere, or does that seem weird?
Personally, I feel as if the topic should be allowed to take whatever direction it wants, as long as it generally stays somewhat related. If a topic about OnLive magically transformed into Talking about what brand of kitty litter works best, I'd say something's up. This also leads me to another point, i've seen topics here closed for seemingly no reason. It's an old topic, but there was a resident evil 5 topic at one point, and it got closed. I still wanted to discuss the topic, but I couldn't. There was also a topic from other saying he changed his name to linx before the band, and that got closed like 3 posts in for no reason...I mean, it got re-opened later, but I figured i'd bring this up as well as long as i'm on a similar topic, though it isn't a big deal, or a deal at all, just somethin.