I don't see it being a major problem.

Remember this forum is still young.
For the time being I say let it go.

When the site is older, then we will become a little more tight on that type of thing.

I tried it, nothing happened....:ohmy:

:help:

You also need to mention that in most cases the forum will pull out threads which are similar and tac them on the bottom of the page labelled similar threads..

i'm not fussed, if you don't want to answer a question thats already been answered - don't.

if someone gets no response then politely tell them that there is already a thread covering the topic. no biggie.

As an admin of a forum with 7000+ members and 350,000+ posts I can safely say that the general internet community doesn’t know how to adapt search words.... Things like using alternat words, dropping common words, grouping words with talking marks...  basic stuff to obtain search results that are relevant...

Doing a search for a common word will simply return thousands of results (which you would think is logical, but many don’t understand)... and when you start to combine these, you get even more results... not less as people desire....

An informative thread on how to search correctly helps heaps.... new users get frustrated when everyone tells them to search and they don’t know how to really use the function... so if you say please search for the answer and point the user to somewhere where they can read about searching correctly, you may find the number of requests for duplicate information drops significantly (we did this and there has been a massive drop in duplicate and stupid requests)

But as has been mentioned, this site is still small and growing, so its not too much of an issue , a general search will most likely return what u want....


Some food for thought anyway

so how *do* you get the boxer burble then?

As with all generalisations, there are exceptions.