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	[quote name="ndd"][quote name="Lorini"]"I guess my biggest issue is thread crapping, which is why I spend more time on somethingawful.com where thread crapping is not permitted."[/quote] i was going to ask what "thread crapping" was but then i looked it up using the internet. no punchline here except in years of internet, like usenet-ass internet, hearing about how uncle cranky was going to open his own website old-ass internet, still remember most of the names of the authors from suck.com universe of oldness-ass internet, internet so old, hard, lame, and gay it got curated by the rock and roll hall of fame as a cast of liberace's dick i have never heard the term "thread crapping" before it is every bit as alien to ljrp and lj fandom as it is to caltrops, btw. this is not because threads never get derailed, and it's not because there's never a problem with threads getting regularly derailed. no, the difference seems to be the location of the crime. i propose that in forums with no conception of "thread crapping", derailing is a crime against a <i>person or people</i> - it is a dick move that upsets specific individuals. in forums where thread crapping is a thing, derailing is considered a crime against the <i>forum</i>, perhaps even the "system" by which these dicks agree to pal around with each other. Therefore we would expect to see no conception of thread crapping in forums where there are no cops at all (caltrops) or the cops are weak (ljrp, where the "cops" are just peers with long memories, who will shit-talk you endlessly, and game moderators (most of the action happens outside of games.)) We would expect to see "thread crapping" as an important idea in forums where there are active cops and, consequently, an expectation on the part of non-cops that 1) their own behavior is worthy of cop defense, and 2) failure to abide by the rules must result in a lower quality of forum (why else would you need cops?) in short, the idea of "thread crapping" is a crime created by the existence of a mechanism which is supposed to punish it. everyone else just calls it "derailing" and leaves it at that, or gets trolled by it, whatever. i feel a secondary result of this hypothesis is that the idea of thread crapping pushes a layer of personal responsibility off the shoulders of the complainant. bitching about thread crappers and thread crapping turns a personal problem into a general one shared by all members of the system - who, see above, will clearly suffer if this nuisance is allowed to persist. someone who is merely derailed by a derailer would probably just have to deal with the matter himself. tldr tldr i think it is no coincidence that the term comes off as petulant [/quote]