True dat! :sour: But it's just like weeding out some of the dodgy 'new member' applicants - there's always gonna be more trying, it's a never ending and seemingly futile task, but if someone doesn't do it, it won't take long before the Forum gets inundated by them, all the legit users get driven away, and the place becomes useless! Only with those dodgy applicants,
they have no reason to not try, cos their life is otherwise so pitiful that their main goal is to be a pain & disrupt/destroy places like this! :banghead:
But with current valid members & legit users of the Forum,
it's to their benefit not to start up a brand-new thread every time they think of something else about a subject that's already been raised and discussed;
it's to their benefit to actually
LOOK for and at what's already been posted about a subject; to check out what's already been asked, discussed, and possibly even already answered; and maybe they'll learn something along the way, possibly even answer any other questions they might have/that might arise, cos after all,
that's one of the big advantages of Forums like this, it's a continually growing and expanding data base of actual experience and knowledge about our shared interest,
BUT IT ONLY WORKS IF the Forum is at least vaguely organised and searchable!:lecturef_smilie:
So not only is it to the benefit of each and every poster to search first and preferably add to existing threads where their question will expand that knowledge/experience database, instead of just starting another thread just cos
they haven't asked the same old question yet... but it's also a basic courtesy to all the other members here to at least
TRY not to mess the place up by drowning it in repetitions of the same old questions, answers, discussions etc and basically contribute to making the place unusable for everyone else thru their selfishness & laziness!
Even if we are lucky enough to catch most of them before they do a heap of damage, we get enough of the small-minded spam/scam types who actively try doing that anyway, so I'd like to
think that
most valid members here also think the Forum is valuable enough & helpful enough to them for each of them to make that little bit of extra effort not to actively contribute to its eventual destruction! :shocked:
It might be naive of me; possibly even a futile task, as you've commented (I'm beginning to think that herding cats is likely easier!
); but even if it only shows a few that there are some here who appreciate the place and want it to keep going, then I'm all for it!! And if it
actually helps keep the place working, all the better - I reckon it's worth giving it a shot, don't you??
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