@AcerPlatanoides wrote:
IIRC yes, the side threads get a placemarker left (this comment and X replies have been moved to [link] or somesuch.)
Why avoid them? What is the cost of letting them happen? I see a cost to leaving an OT/inflammatory post in a thread and a benefit to giving people an opportunity to learn when people don't want to discuss their idea, or when they do they have a venue that doesn't disrupt the original conversation as much as seems to happen on sensitive topics around here.