Personally I don't think this thread was hijacked - whether it degenerated into something which could be construed as a personal attack is a different story.

I think the problem is no one seemed to know what the thread was supposed to be about in the first place.

Someone said hello to someone and they didn't respond.

That's barely an anecdote. Sure it was couched in terms of TFs going mainstream (the connection still alludes me) and of how as fans we should have some common courtesy (perhaps some kind of Universal Greeting?) but as a discussion point it's fairly lacking.

But those things were discussed as such things are in forums. And that discussion evolved and the point was made that if someone dresses like a circus peanut and there ain't no bigtop around then they're going to get a reaction -and not necessarily a positive one.

So the discussion shouldn't have gone down that road?

What are we supposed to talk about then? What is on-topic?