Search - A Worrying Trend
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Join Date: 2003-01-09 Member: 12092Members
Join Date: 2003-01-09 Member: 12092Members
<div class="IPBDescription">...stop this madness</div> Can people refrain from posting the tirade of 'Use the search button' posts as it's driving me nuts. Firstly it's a pointless comment (and if I were a cyncial man I would suggest it's just being used to increase someone's post count) because clearly the poster wants to start a new thread and let's face it why shouldn't they? Secondly and more importantly if we don't get new ideas / comments / discussions whether about new ideas or existing discussions then how is the community supposed to grow. There are board admins who monitor these forums so why do some people feel they should dictate what should and should not be posted. Frustrated police men should go elsewhere.
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LOL!
Obviously if the titles obscure you could always moan that they have used a crap title...
But it's frustrating to have already discussed X, where X has been posted five times this week by new people. In many cases, while a thread on _exactly_ that topic is still on the main page. Take marine handgrenades, for example. Search, you'll find well over 30 threads (being optimistic in that low of a number) where it's been beaten to death time and time again.
It wears to have to repeat the same explanation over and over again, every time someone has the same 'wonderful' idea and doesn't bother to read why it WON'T work, in the thread that someone posted yesterday about it.
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A discussion board is for exactly that 'discussion'. If some members of the community feel the need (and maturity) to help out other members of the board by offering explantions to repeat posts then I would suggest a pointer to the releavnt post more useful.
Part of a discussion board / forum is to go over things againa and again (and again in the the case of grenade launchers). Let the posters post and if you need to help out then chuck them something useful. The spate of 'use the serach form' responses is very annoying and are normally made with an assumed sense of superiority that also annoys. Now board admins sort out the nature of the boards and it should be regulated by them and not others. For the record the offenders I am trying to target are the newer members of the community and not the Talesin's of the world.
Heh. Didn't really think I was flaming.. I just tend to speak my mind, and lean on a point.
<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'><b>[1]</b><i> Association of Forum Goers Who Are Tired of People Posting About They Are Tired of People Posting About They Are Tired Of All The "Use The Search Button Posts" That Are Posted By People Who Are Tired Of Seeing The Same Topics Being Posted All The Time By People Not Using The Search Button.</i> </span>
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Let people post what is on their mind about the game. As long as they GOT minds and behave nice. I am sure the moderators can do their jobs when necessary.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
/me books himself into a 'Learn to be Concise' course at his local college <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
... as for
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Please stop spamming, advising people to use the search button is not outside of this forum's rules<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--> steer clear of the coffee grumpy!