It used to be a time when someone posted a duplicate was reminded and gently reprimanded. Now if someone - like yourself - points out the obvious, you get flamed
And there was a time when the mods removed or locked a dupe thread. For the very reasons you mention.
Now? Now it’s common to see 6-8 threads on a single issue in just a few hours. Someone gets up - sees a story on Drudge or similar site - and FReeps it. With nary a look to see that there are previous threads with 50-100 replies on them.
Mods don’t care. And Jim? Too busy running FReepathons.
I don’t get it either.
No one knows what that linking text “Next page” means at the bottom of the page?
Last night, Megyn Kelly announced the Marines-Yemen story as breaking news even though it was at least a half a day old. FR exploded with nearly identical threads.
I guess news isn’t important unless it’s announced by a short skirt.
And Jim wonders why he’s losing donors. We are deeply into the Twitter era of FR. I’m not sure that it’s going to turn around.