Thread Hijacking

Could someone please tell me what Thread Hijacking is? I am new to the forums, just thought I was being helpful and taking part.

 

haha anyways did you watch the game last night? Awesome!!

- A post that has nothing to do with the original post. Then someone would reply to this and suddenly the thread is about something new.

 

OR if you post in someone's sales thread trying to sale your own thing (that's more malicious)

 

You post in someoane thread with your own problems or a non related post to the subject of the thread

 

I posted the name of a free ebook that would help solve the problem the guy was was having!! I thought that was the whole purpose of a forum!!

Won't do it again :-((

 

So thats called Hijacking dude, you shouldn't have done that

 

i suggest you to stay in the general chat for about a month and understand how these things work, then probably you will figure out the rules etc more clearly!
anyways, keep posting in this general category and it will be fine!

 

it's okay to recommend a product, but you must have done it in the BST area, which is not okay.

like for instance if someone posted a question about "how to increase traffic?" in Genreal Marketing, say, and then there's some discussion going on, it's okay to say "i've got this ebook on how to increase traffic, it's worth a read".

but if someone started a BST thread saying, "i've got this program that can help you increase traffic, i'm selling it for $5." and then you pop in and say "i've got this ebook on how to increase traffic, it's free", that's not okay.

 

Thanks for all your help guys, i'll be more carefil in the future.

Just one more thing, is this 1 point I got for hijacking a bad thing and will it last long?
ooh and what happens?

 

If it is red consider yourself a cat with 9 lives left.

If its yellow consider it a warning.

It usually comes with an expiration date.

 

I for one never tangent off topic so I actually had to look this up.

when in doubt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_Hijacking

 

Lol...Are you serious? And you've got over 5k posts

 

Yeah thread hijacking is not a good thing. Is anybody going to watch the Bulls vs. Heat game tonight?

 

nicely done...

Thanks to all that replied.

 

You might want to read this if you are new to forums.

 

One time a user posted a question in one of my own forums that I answered. A few months later I discovered that the user had edited his original post so I was full of porn links That's also one way of hijacking a post/thread.

/Andreas