The same questions get asked over and over again. Every now and then I'll weigh in on a Topre question like 55g vs 45g, or Topre vs Cherry vs ALPS, but the brown vs blue vs every other Cherry questions seem to never end.
+1
I guess we can encourage people to use the search.
While this would be the logical solution, the end result is that new people coming in that haven't searched are instead met with long-term participants saying "use the search" and usually in a very grumpy way... which is quite a turn off for new people. Really... it happens on every forum ever, because : path of least resistance.
Ideally the first thing a new person might do is check the FAQs/stickied threads/Wiki (or the deskthority wiki
), but what if you're not in the right section... you might not find something like the
Simple Questions Simple Answers thread... and once you find it... its 190 pages... 190. At least
CPTBadAss has a great TOC as the first post... but I imagine the thread could use a little cleanup.
As to repetitive questions, I don't really have a solution, but telling people to 'use the search' never seems to work out well.
There might not even be a technology based solution... well... ok, maybe if we build some sort of device to allow for world domination and then we could release a tailored airborne infection that triggers a genetic alteration which makes people think for themselves before asking questions they could probably have found for themselves... but that might be a few years off.
