When to branch off a topic and start a new one?

[brettcannon]

Continuing the discussion from How do you find Discourse so far?:

@pf_moore

This is somewhat unrelated. Maybe it should be a different topic, or a branch somehow. It’s not about mail clients, but more about workflow patterns. If there’s a “good Discourse etiquette” means of branching off a related but different topic, I’d appreciate knowing. In email, I’d either just continue the digression under the same thread, or edit the subject of my reply and leave it at that.

I think because Discourse makes it fairly easy to fork a topic, I think we might end up doing it more proactively than we used to by email since there’s less ceremony for it. It also helps that splitting a topic after it has accidentally gone off-topic is rather easy for an admin that will also drive people to be more proactive to keep topics on-point.

But I’m not sure. It’s going to take either us discussing how we want to handle things or just naturally reaching some agreement on thresholds (hence this new topic ).