many of us have hijacked topics. (including me.) most of us who've done it didn't even realize at the time that's what we were doing. i've seen very few situations in which the hijacker had an obvious, selfish, unfriendly purpose for doing it.
we're reading through a thread; a thought pops into our head; we post; and off we're headed into Tangent Land. :lol:
when the original subject is of interest to enough readers, we bring it back on-topic without even thinking about it because we begin again to post relevant input. if it never gets back to the original subject, it's likely that subject had run its course.
sometimes, i get more caught up and interested in the tangent(s) a topic has been taken to than i was in the original subject. but i can't always find it again to keep up with it because the original title has no relation to the new conversation. sooooooo ... in addition to being discourteous to the person who started the thread (my apologies for past transgressions :oops: ), we're kinda shooting ourselves in the foot, too.
unless you hijacked somebody at "ugly-point", it's best to not beat yourself up about it. slap yourself on the wrist, give yourself a tsk-tsk-tsk and be more careful next time. (and by "you" i mean me, too.) :wink:
P.S. i'm off to work, now, to earn your tax dollars. behave yourselves 'til i get back. put the spitballs away. teacher will be watching. :lol: