Will people stumble across off topic posts on a blog?

In Summary my question is this: Have I ANY chance of people stumbling across off topic posts?
Let's say I have my website with a specific subject as far as domain and title and content are concerned.
I.E: John's Tech Blog at techblogger.com
The content is pretty much all about tech stuff.
But then I see a film I like and want to review it...and put a review on there.
OR
I want to discuss something I find interesting on the Psychology Today website (something less mainstream).
Have I ANY chance of people stumbling across either of these or similar?
I know a bit about SEO, and know...basically the more I mention something (keyword-wise) the better. Aswell as density, proximity etc of course.
Now, because 'movie' and 'review' and the title of the movie are only mentioned in close proximity on that one page...does this mean nobody will find it?
Let's also assume I re-post these posts on 5 other article sites linking back.
So basically again: Have I ANY chance of people stumbling across off topic posts?

Most likely not to many, of course you will get a little google juice from the link.

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Generally they've been posted by people that care to not read anything nor drill down to an appropriate forum and just dump a question.
I've done the "report abuse" routine on a number of them but that seems to have been ignored.
Thus this new post.
These are from the last 60 days:
(need to be moved to a Glassfish forum)
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http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2128052
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(topics for Sun Java System "whatever" applications, posted to server forums)
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Weblogic Spring/Sample Application Help
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(database product questions posted to System Administration and hardware forums)
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Problem using TNS_ADMIN in registry (Ora. 11g R2 Instant client in Win. 7)
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ORA-00202 and Fractured block found during control file header read
Performance Monitoring
Reg : Weblogic Server Installation
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What's wrong with oracle database11g? Is it a serious problem?
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what is the function of autoextensible field in dba_data_files?
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ORA-12535: TNS:operation timed out
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Again, the community moderators don't have permissions to do that.
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The "more" option at the bottom appears on pages displayed via the "Overview" tab at the top of the column of topics. If you switch that to the Discussions tab choice, you'll have the "Next" plus page number choices.
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It is very common to see off-topic posts in forums as discussions usually engender new questions, shared experiences, etc... Anyway, could we imagine an OT tag that would, for example, color text or frame it or whatever, in order to make it easy to sort what's OT and what's not ?

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it would be great to have an off topic forum/section here for us to interact and have general discussions. almost every forum i'm a member of has an Off Topic section. we can get to know each other much better and share useful information and opinions about various topics, technology and others also. we can do the same through PM's, but getting everyone involved will feel much better.
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Hi all, how do i allow certain group of people to reply to forum post instead of everyone can reply? Any help would greatly appreciated.

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You can secure the forum and subscribe group of people to the secure zone , by this only the subscribers will be able to view the forum and reply on posts.
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