User blog comment:Angel Emfrbl/Giving up on forums/@comment-30602727-20140730224317/@comment-30602727-20140731142007

Yeah, the right thing to do, if people are aware of the off-topicness, is to put it back on track. But if people are not wanting to, then that's an issue :/  Sitting there and watching while this is going on isn't good either, because nobody is taking the responsibility to steer it back to the original topic, except the few people who are trying (includes you, as you did say that you try to let it go and go back to topic).

We had this type of issue quite a few times in the past few months. :/ And sometimes, it took the people who don't comment as much to put an end to it.

If I recall on the Ling news page, an admin had to come in and get us together and stop going off topic (the topic went from Ling -> Number of samples a Chinese VOCALOID has). And at that point, I just feel bad. Nobody stops until an admin tells them off, and that shouldn't happen. An admin is not supposed to clean up after people's mess, the people should know better and try not to get a busy admin involved. :/ That goes for here too. Sometimes Bunai or Adept have to step in to get something back on topic or tell a hyper fan to calm down if they're not listening to other users. :( And it just makes me feel bad.