QUOTE(Sarcasticidealist @ Fri 13th February 2009, 5:51pm)
Or that unmoderated slow speed communication with multiple involved parties, of the sort seen on internet message boards, often veers radically off-topic relatively quickly. Your choice, really.
And unmoderated high-speed communication can veer even more off-topic even more quickly than would be implied by the increase in relative speed, because it's perceived as "cheap" (especially with easy context-switching enabled by quote blocks, whose invention I'm convinced forever doomed the idea of keeping a discussion to a single topic at a time)