主题：请问老外的ＢＢＳ里是否也是阵线分明，口水满天飞？ -- hopeful

The chance of success of any attempt to change the topic or direction of a thread of discussion in a networked

forum is directly proportional to the quality of the current content.

Corollaries:

C1. The chance of any change to the topic or direction of a thread being a change for the better is inversely proportional to the quality of the content before the change.

C2. Thread bandwidth consumption increases in inverse proportion to thread content quality.

C3. Any attempt at recourse to formal logic or identification of classic fallacies will simply increase the irrationality of the discussion.