A recent thread (Q&A/to call the shots) got off track into a discussion of what-to-do-when-a-thread-gets-off-track.

This thread continues that subject of "digressions". A sampling of what was said on that subject, in the hijacked thread, is:

What about those of us who think they're BOTH boring?!
Then don't read it. That shouldn't stop those of us who don't think that. and Let those who find any topic boring either ignore it, or think of a better one.
[but it's only] after three or four clicks, and a couple of minutes total loading time, that the five or six new posts are all about ....

A scant summary -- but to the extent it omits anything crucial in the prior posts, they can be reposted below.