The Phalanx and Moral

[antisocialmunky]

We don't enforce a strict on-topic policy because often spin-off discussions can be just as interesting as the original (unless they are spam, off course). However, if the participants wish it, I can move posts relating to the decline of Sparta to a new thread.

Well I wasn't intimating that you were, but as you may or mayn ot have noticed, this is like the second or third thread that has meandered this direction of specifics of the late Spartan state.

This has been a trend lately on the EB fora that the same people drag the same topic over multiple threads. So you had a naturally developping thread until someone mentioned "Spartans were known for ....", "Hoplites did....", or even "Romans." Then the thread would be turned into "I believe that the glory days of Sparta ended with those last 8000-9000 Spartan phalangites", "Hoplites did not do that", "Rome sucks, Macedon Rules" etc regardless of previous topic. This is not natural progression of the coversation, its dragging the baggage from a previous thread and pitching camp in a new thread all to the loss of the OP's topic. While this is certainly fine in threads where the conversation has ended, its frustrating when the thread is still going or trying to go on topic but people won't let the original conversation resume.

Of course you're opinion may differ and I'm not commenting on your modding abilities which have been quite good so far.

EDIT: Nvm, it doesn't seem to be as wide spread as I got the impression that it did. So I guess my intent was to nip this in the bud before it got to Hoplites and Rome Sucks levels. Just ignore my over reaction then.