what's the big deal.. it's not like it's more work for YOU.. it's more work for the mods...
When people actually sit down and think about a reply and attempt to try and help someone it is very discouraging when that posts gets deleted.
is that why you reply to all copies?
Exactly, trying to make a point because so many of the duplicate threads just sit there waiting to be deleted. I figure if I post in them maybe someone will see that they need deleted. And I report the duplicates sometimes but I try not to report too much, don't wanna get in trouble.
The report is plenty, and actually posting in all makes is harder to determine which to delete. If one has 5 responses and the rest have zero it's easy. If they all have 1 or 2, then we need to determine which replies are duplicated and unique, split off the unique ones, and merge them, to make sure the posts don't get lost. If that makes sense.