It derails the conversation. I cannot count the times a interesting comment or post goes off topic and is sabotaged. It drives me crazy. And disinformation trolls are really good at doing so. So stay on topic don't get distracted. Says guy who gets sidelined so easily. 🤔
Allowing people to topic hijack ruins your rankings on the search engines as well. The ranking algorithm can tell when a thread wanders all over the place. It's less valuable to readers then, and is placed lower in the rankings.
It derails the conversation. I cannot count the times a interesting comment or post goes off topic and is sabotaged. It drives me crazy. And disinformation trolls are really good at doing so. So stay on topic don't get distracted. Says guy who gets sidelined so easily. 🤔
Allowing people to topic hijack ruins your rankings on the search engines as well. The ranking algorithm can tell when a thread wanders all over the place. It's less valuable to readers then, and is placed lower in the rankings.