Ohhh hahah
now I get Storm's comment!

Well, most threads are only good for the first page of responses. Usually the original question's answered in the first 5 posts. If the topic is particularly interesting, then it will go on for many pages (of course, not all relate 100% to the original topic, but they're somewhat related). I don't mind if if a thread gradually digresses from the original topic (they're still easy to split & move because of the conversation flow).
But the instance I was talking about is when someone started a new thread and asked a very specific question, and the guy was misspelled two letters by accident. The next poster made a joke about it and continued on with that. A few more people were responding to the joke rather than the original poster. The poster came back and was like "haha very funny, sorry I spelled it incorrectly, so can anyone help me" and the people just continued with the joke until finally someone 10 posts down answered it and got the thread back on track.
