Vanity - Reluctant to "Search"?

December 18, 2011 | Vanity

[SMGFan]

Just wondering, but are most people reluctant to type a title or keyword in Search before posting a topic? Oh, I try my best to see if a topic has been started before I post something. But multiple posting of a breaking news story? Nothing is so urgent that it needs to be posted so quickly. Sometimes scrolling down the first or next page will show a story has already been posted.

[smokingfrog]

The strategy seems to be - post away and let the mods sort it out.

[mnehring]

This has already been posted here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2822194/posts

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Lol. You’re so bad. :-)

[TankerKC]

Did you hear? Kim Jong-il died.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Guess what? Kim is dead! Surprise!

[LouAvul]

I just realized I can’t post to breaking news. How does one do that?

[MarkL]

Wow! I was going to post the exact same thing! I'm glad I did a search and saw that you had already posted one, saving me the trouble and embarrassment.

Kudos and Thanks!

Mark

[SamAdams76]

Well if you had cared to search before posting yourself, you would have seen that “Vanity” has already been posted before - in fact, multiple times.

[CharlesWayneCT]

The sad thing is that is what I thought about doing when I saw this thread....

[crazyhorse691]

I am going to doom this post for all eternity because I am going to be the voice of reason...one time, only once, I posted a thread without doing a search...naturally, it had been posted earlier and no less than 5 FReepers brought that to my attention before the mods yanked it. The funniest part was that I had more replies on my duplicate thread than the original thread ever got. That's when I began to suspect that there are a lot of practitioners of OCD on this site.

[RCFlyer]

I’m with you, crazy. I don’t mind double posts because often I would have missed the news. Original posts can already be on the next page or two when I turn on FreeRepublic. I don’t start reading where I left off last time... I don’t spend THAT many hours on FR.

I do see double posts on the same page sometimes, and I generally pick the one with the most comments. Doesn’t bother me at all.

[=8 mrrabbit 8=]

How hard can it be to:

1. Assume someone else has already found it and posted it?

(Which turns out to be the case 99.99% of the time.)

2. Search for keywords?

3. And even more so - actually scroll the main page?

BEFORE

Starting a thread...

I can understand postings within a few minutes of each other - it will happen. But 15 to 20 minutes later?

Clear indication that someone either doesn’t car or is ego driven - i.e., the want their name at the head of a topic on the main page.

=8-)

Notice that I haven’t started a single thread...simply because when I apply those three rules - sure enough - someone else has beat me to it.

And I don’t mind one bit.

=8-)

[CalvaryJohn]

It’s the same people that park their shopping cart in one half of the aisle and their ass in the other half.

[raybbr]

Or, maybe, just maybe, people are working on posting the same story at the same time and search comes up negative. It takes several minutes to post a story.

Maybe you ought to apply to be a moderator.

[Windflier]

I always do a search on titles before posting articles. Saves me grief from the posting police.

[Windflier]

I thought you’d show up on this thread. Did you ever get your official FR Posting Police badge?