of course if you leave the comment _and_ make it a post in your journal, yeah, then you are derailing.

So what I did - posting a comment, and reposting that same comment in my LJ - is derailing? Or does derailment imply intent? My intention was not to redirect the conversation in another direction, though apparantly I did, because I did not correctly understand the original statement. Derailment by accident (ignorance) is still derailment, yes?

Orrrrr, is it automatically derailing if you respond to the subject at hand and disagree?

I'm wordnoodling, by the way; not upset or offended or anything, just curious, kind of tired, and - curious. And words words words.