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In Reply to: SEARCH and ye shall find...and learn. This has been discussed hundreds of times. posted by jeffreybehr on March 26, 2007 at 10:12:50:
.... kill this forum as everybody will be too shit-scared to post anything banal and spend all their free time wracking their brains and trying to come up with a topic/question that no-one else ever posted. This all-consuming "Hunt for Fresh October" will leave them no time for any posting and, as a result, this forum will languish in the doldrums of inattention...In addition, the prospect of being only able to read posts consisting only of esoteric and way-out topics that border on the lunatic, is a wee bit off-putting...
Seriously though, we do need to cut newbies a bit of slack now and then or we run the risk of chasing away any prospective new blood because of "rabid Rottweiler" responses to posts that - to us - seem repetitive.... I mean, just imagine your "Utopian" world here on AA where the same old farts post nothing except "snarls" at new young farts and send them packing with ears full of fleas just because they did not spend 3 weeks searching the archives to see if their specific question/post had been posed before...
(Okay, so that turned out less serious than promised - so shoot me!)
I also find that there can be a fair amount of "re-hashing posts", but I don't bother with them.
Follow Ups:
for a while and only recently started posting. I agree with what you said whole heartedly and wanted to come out and say it.I commonly use the search for trying to answer certain questions, but a lot of times there are questions that can and should be asked again for the fresh perspective.
...that each is the only person in the last 10 years to have that question. I merely hope my reminder will REDUCE the repetitive posts a little.
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maaate, let the neophytes have their fun. :-))No-one researches anything these days ... it's the "I want it / I want to know, NOW generation!! :-))
Regards,
Man you are so right here.As a matter of fact, a very brilliant poster used a word on my the other day, and instead fo googling it, I just asked him what he meant.
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... and I was just taking a light-hearted "jab in the ribs" as a nudge to lighten-up just a wee bit...Anyway, the other response does provide an alternate viewpoint...
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