knock
Bluelighter
This is the problem that I keep running into knock. Say the joke thread for instance. Someone uses the P word, which spawns a discussion about the word - as it would in real life, because we do not talk in predefined and outlined topics.
It's a problem which exists on many forums because the forum software is incapable of catering for tangential discussion. And the mods don't want to do the work of papering over the cracks in the software

Usenet handles this gracefully! Progress =/= Advance