Italian/ Mexican in America/ Germany

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Tangents or thread drift

Some of us are chattier than others. Some of us are linear thinkers, and some of us are not. Linear thinkers often become annoyed or frustrated when non-linear thinkers write or speak, because their minds don’t work the same way. I don’t remember people talking about thread drift until the past week. Should we be creating new topics every time a microdiscussion starts up or a tangent takes off, in a thread with a defined topic? I’m sure I’ve been causing a lot of tangents to be taken. If yo…