Originally Posted by
MMACH 5
And again, please don't act as though the helmet nannies are the only ones derailing helmet threads in this forum. Countless times, a forum newb posts a question about which helmet he or she should buy. Clearly, they are planning to buy a helmet, already. They didn't sign up to BF to debate the usefulness of a helmet. Lo and behold, it usually takes less than a day for one of the bare-head brigade to fly in and tell them how they are wasting their money on a helmet. The the tread gets locked or merged into the helmet thread.
Well, that's sort-of true. You could have an interesting time taking bets on whether it's going to be a be a bare-header making fun of helmets, or a helmeteer going on about how many times his life has been saved. IMO it's usually the latter, but I'm not an unbiased observer.
Your post seems a bit of a non-sequitur, though. I didn't know we were talking about derailed threads.