[SunkenCiv]

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

[cripplecreek]

I use a Bing search for the title + Free Republic.

If the title hasn’t been changed too much Bing can usually pick it out.

[mad_as_he$$]

Search works so poorly I don’t even try it anymore.

[ckilmer]

Thackney did marvelous post on the relative costs of producing oil at various oil fields around the USA. We both searched for it. But never found it.

[Bon of Babble]

Yes. I do my best and search at least three times with different wording.

Even then...

[NormsRevenge]

You want nuts, Pilgrim?

I'll git ya nuts.

Oh, never mind.

[Rebelbase]

I’m confused.

[Eva]

I always search before posting, it never works.

[GOPJ]

If there’s too many posts freepers don’t get to know each other... Civ - you always put thought into your choices but there have been times in the past when some posters seemed to be dumping anything just to see their in the first spot..

[Red Steel]

I’ve posted about 5,600 threads and articles on FR.

In those posted articles, I guess about 50 to 70 have been dupes, or locks, or deleted threads. Many of those I did do a search that failed to find the same article, or I did a search where someone beat me by minutes or seconds posting the same articles, or I wanted to post the dupe and there was sufficient time (many hours or days - mostly ;^)) between the articles, or I just forgot.

I just forgot the very last time as I rushed it. And “curiously” someone had to harangue me about it in the “Keywords” section and that ‘of course’ got my dander up as I was in the mood.

So lets do the math on me Civ. 70 / 5600 so what do we get?

That’s about 1.25% of my posted articles or threads result in dupes for a variety of reasons. ;-) Or, I like this better, 98.75% of my posted articles are the one and only being the first posted on FR. I think that’s a better percentage than Rush’s boasted accuracy rate. Heh. :-)

[wildbill]

You noted yourself that the search function isn’t reliable so that’s why there are multiple posts sometimes. Either it doesn’t work or people get lazy because it doesn’t work and don’t bother.

It really isn’t worth all the rigamarole you suggest as optionas just so you won’t have to scroll over a duplicate post.

Live with it.

[Redcitizen]

I’ve always been crazy but it’s kept me from going insane. ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VO6bI-xrj8

[Conspiracy Guy]

I solved this dilemma years ago. I don’t post, I just make snarky comments. Usually my snarky comments are off topic. What were we talking about?