It's not about deaf people having a tendency to going off topic more than hearing people, it's a matter of respect.
Yes, hearing people go off-topic too... but that doesn't give us deaf people a valid excuse to do the same.
Going off-topic from time to time is alright, but going off-topic for a very long time is not good.
In person-to-person conversations, topics may change from one thing to another and that's alright. It's just between 2 or 3 people (maybe a few more). However, if it's a public discussion where people discuss one topic, it isn't fair for the creator when people come in and "hijack" a thread by going off-topic and keep going off-topic by having a conversation in someone else's thread. That's like going to class in college and 2 hearing guys talking and laughing with each other for the whole class to hear. That's disrespectful.
