hijack: frankly nothing is more annoying (when ending up in forums from google) than multiple threads about same subject. I've noticed Google has very annoying tendency to have the first result be some forum thread (great) and those threads usually end in some moderator pointing you to another thread. And then believe it or not, that thread ends by yet another mod pointing to earlier thread and so on. And in the end after reading 4 threads you find discussion that's not really up to date and the newer threads were locked.
I really can't wait to see if Google Wave could be adapted to replace forums and wikis and aggregate every bit of information into one place which would also stay relevant despite wannabe mods shouting "necro!". 'Necroing threads' and being able to update old info is the correct way to go, not duplicating bits and pieces of discussion all over the place. But forums just weren't really designed, well for anything, they were just quick and dirty solution like the web itself.
As to hijacks like this reply, one should be able to just virtually-branch/filter the relevant parts of the discussion. "Mods" could have the job of re-tagging various replies eg this post would be tagged under "bumping threads" despite of me using reply button in the OP and the reader could easily filter only this part visible or non-visible.
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