Not trying to be snide here, but MANY times I want to see if a story is posted here, and the search returns nothing... go to google, search the particular article, and walaaah... a link to it posted on Free Republic. Just saying, it happens all the time.
Noted, but the pagedown key would have worked so much faster in this and several other instances and I am always floored whenever I click on a particular thread to view it and then within a very short time someone else puts up another thread concerning the identical topic.
People just act as if it is such a chore to look at their keyboard or use their mouse to see if the story they are thinking about posting has already gotten a thread going -how hard can it be to look at the previous thread listings before starting another one?
This one even says she did a google search and came up with nothing, which is a whole lot more effort than simply scrolling down the page to find a previous thread.
Ahhh.... good advice.