[SunkenCiv]

I would say it's been driving me nuts lately, but I was already nuts.

[Jet Jaguar]

I was nuts.

I tried. I gave up.

I just post them if I did not see it yet.

Let Mods sort it out.

[BlessedBeGod]

They claim that they do, but they don’t do it properly. They search on the entire title instead of just a key or unusual word from the title.

[adaven]

Dupe

[McGruff]

I do. But I’m an old dog who learned that trick along time ago.

[ApplegateRanch]

This has already been posted several times...

VANITY http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3120472/posts

VANITY http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3125292/posts

VANITY http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3024654/posts

VANITY http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3024654/posts

[onyx]

I always search before posting, but like you, I have noticed an abundance of duplicates recently.

[no-to-illegals]

Ah ... was this a planned event? If was a planned event, I like it.

[montanajoe]

Never use the search function.

However, have learned to look at a profile before posting a comment which to mind is far more valuable..I do know what RA means as mine starts the same..

[montanajoe]

Kind of deficient at the eye function also as the above comment was meant for the first post on the subject ::))

[Lazamataz]

Already posted here. USE THE SEARCH FUNCTION!

[Pollster1]

Sadly, 13 minutes later, shibumi posted almost the same thread. In other words, no, we don’t search before posting.

[Fresh Wind]

Did you search before posting this?

[yldstrk]

It is too hard to post, I am surprised we get any at all, much less figure out if it’s been posted

[NautiNurse]

I suspect that typing a complete article title (+/- with typos), and searching by the default option keyword, rather than using the dropdown box and choosing title, locates approximately zero of the previously posted articles.

[Pharmboy]

Do you need to be logged in?

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

The problem is that nobody actually READS FreeRepublic anymore. They go to Drudge and then they start posting, believing that they actually are the first person to see the story. FR first. All other sites second!

[Darksheare]

“No”, with an extra helping of “ not likely”.

[Pan_Yan]

There are several problems that I see happen. An AP article (for example) may have ten different titles on ten different web sites, so four people post the exact same article with different headlines.

Second a website might change the title, especially for fast developing stories. I had a mod chew me out once for changing the title when if you looked at the URL the original title was still embedded in it.

Sometimes I search for a news story and find it posted from a different source. Then I've got to decide if the story I found contains enough new information to make it worth reposting.

Last of course people are just lazy. If you found a story about where Palin ate for lunch chances are it has already been posted twelve times from seven different sources in Bloggers, Vanity, News/Current Events, Front Page and Religion. You need to check.

If you are posting a story about Burkina Faso or Tajikistan you probably don't need to search as closely.

[caver]

I’ve noticed the same thing. Over the course of a day or so, you will see the same article posted at least 3 or 4 times. I’ve noted that it was previously posted and then will get jumped on by some other Freeper about not everyone seeing the original, blah, blah, blah.....

[SJackson]

Since titles change publication to publication, an author search would be a great help