Thread Jacking Rule

Aesiir · Jun 25, 2011

I noticed there is no rule against thread jacking, and I am unsure as to whether or not this is illegal. I would expect Sythe to have this as a rule because I know that this annoys many people.

Good example of thread jacking: Someone has a skilling service and another person posts on their thread saying they also have skill training services.

Just thought it would be a good suggestion to add this to the rules: No thread jacking. Any other phrase can work as long as it is clear, because I've actually seen a number of people do this and I don't think this should be allowed.

EDIT: Sorry, this is all really jumbled up and out of order but I just wanted to get the point across real quick lol

Scottay · Jun 25, 2011

I would assume it is something people get infracted for regardless of the fact it is not specifically outlined in the rules. In most cases "Hijacking" or "Thread jacking" are already something users could get infracted for because it usually already falls under "spam" or "flaming". For example, user A makes a skilling service and user B comes and says "Hey your skilling sucks come check out mine instead." Then user B would get infracted. Or another scenario would be in user A makes a skilling service and user B just says "Hey I have a skilling service too, check it out." They would most likely by infracted for spam because in the rules one of the spam definitions is outlined as "Posting comments with little to no relevance to the topic".

Although this rule is not specifically outlined in the rules I believe that it is already enforced as spam or flaming in most cases. The closest thing in the rules to it would be one of the definitions of spam where it says "Posting comments with little to no relevance to the topic". In my opinion this is nearly the same thing as hijacking, although it wouldn't hurt to add a specific rule about hijacking in the Official rules list.