Why the (*&^ don't people search first?

Submitted: Wednesday, Jan 25, 2006 at 23:11
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My gripe for the evening.

Why is it that people - predominantly non members - don't search first before posting questions that many of us have put (collectively) hours and pages into answering many times over?

Predominantly questions on satphones, first aid kits, crappy chinese generators (noise generators??), cooper tyres chipping, and Nissan 3 litre Patrols expiring in a spectacular fashion, seem to be the hot topics that attract offenders.

What would happen if all the regulars stopped answering them for a couple of weeks and just referred them to past posts?

David has put a lot of effort into the search functions and they aren't hard to use.

After all many of the new guests have probably already used a search engine to find the site in the first place.

It's not rocket science. It is inconsiderate. And it perpetually fills the pages at the top of the posts with crap that's been done to death, and in many cases no new information comes to light.

Dave
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