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Originally Posted by Dids
Seems like there's enough ambiguity about what people mean when they say trainwreck that it's kinda hard to have a site wide rule against it.
In OOT it used to mean having stuff that happened on 2p2 brought into real life, but it seems like people also use it to mean posting RL info on 2p2.
None of these definitions make any sense though and it's the first time I've heard the term used to refer to something like this.
On forums a 'train wreck' is pretty much what it sounds like - it's a thread that's turned into a total disaster. Typically one where stupidity, side tracking and bad logic is so out of control that any rational human being just can't bear to witness it, yet still can't resist doing so.
If what is meant here is outing of personal info then it should be worded as such because nobody who is new to those subforums would know what's meant.
Then again, that outing of personal info isn't allowed should be really obvious to everyone.