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Hello there,

As moderator I would like to ask that if you are posting a thread that you look on the past pages to see if there has been a post already about that subject already written. I think it is a bit annoying that there have been posts already been written but additional posts are written again. I am not pointing the finger at anyone. I also don't want to merge or close posts because of this. It will also just make my job easier and take up less of your time to say the same thing again and again.


Thank you for you time in reading this. I want to keep this forum the way it is going as it is a pretty nice ol' place.

Happy Posting,

Love, Pease and Happiness,
Hippie_Girl Loop
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Whilst I fully appreciate the workload it involves yourself, I'm afraid you are asking rather too much of people.


This is simply because 99.99% of us do not want to look through the - often considerable - back log of old posts to see whether the spontaneous thread or reply has already been done by Zapbiddlywhack four months, two weeks and three and a half days a go. A lot of us log on, see what the current craic is, put a new (to us, at the time!) post on, or reply to one. I daresay there are people with hours to spare who could troll through the old posts, but most of us drop in for a relatively brife period of time.

In a large forum like this, it is a simple fact of life that certain subjects are bound to be repeated, albeit more often than not with variations or fresher perspectives.

However, I shall try!

 

well said

 

I dont she meant that you look through every single thread, a few pages in just to make sure, thats what i thought anyway.

Could you use another colour for the text next time though please, i have a headache

 

Thanks Raskialization.. that is exactly what I meant.. and as for the colour of text.. sure I can

 

Man, the Levellers are sooo cool!

My favourite is 'belaruse', whats yours?

 

This is why we have a search function


(Edit) Okay, I'm going to stand corrected on this one. We do indeed have a search function, but it's bloody useless. It claims that there are no matches for Dire Straits, when I actually went to the last page and found a Dire Straits thread. It seems to find matches in posts fine, but it won't work with thread titles.

 

We used to have a search function but ...
http://www.hipforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=102300