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[Vanity] Does Anyone Search Before Posting Anymore?
minds of FReepers everywhere
| Thursday, March 27, 2014
| SunkenCiv
Posted on 03/26/2014 10:53:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The search engine gives unpredictable results, but we also have "Latest Topics" which list from newest to oldest and has "Next page" at the bottom of each page; there are keywords and topics; and as a last resort there is Google and Bing.
TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; ancientaliens; beentheredonethat; duplicate; duplicator; groundhogday; icantfindit; insearchof; ohthehuevanity; oncetwicethreetimes; playitagainsam; rhetoricalquestion; rinseandrepeat; rollthebones; search; searching; searchingmore; searchisourfriend; stillsearching; sunkenciv; vanity
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To: moose07; Darksheare
That’s true. You are correct. I’m confused!
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posted on
03/26/2014 11:51:35 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
(Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
To: montanajoe; SunkenCiv
Isn’t it amazing?
You posted to SunkenCiv about an item on my “about” page and I responded from the “other” thread.
But it showed up here.
Color me Cornfused.
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posted on
03/27/2014 12:23:24 AM PDT
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: shibumi
Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, One Three, with pride, Drill Sergeant!
23
posted on
03/27/2014 1:06:48 AM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
03/27/2014 1:25:03 AM PDT
by
lonevoice
(We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality)
To: BlessedBeGod
Thank you!
While the search isn’t the greatest, anyone paying attention knows that works.
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posted on
03/27/2014 1:27:48 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: onyx
I usually do a web-search: “host:freerepublic.com blah blah blah”
It usually finds any posts on the blah blah blah.
26
posted on
03/27/2014 2:36:30 AM PDT
by
Ray76
(Profit from the mistakes of others, you'll never live long enough to make them all yourself.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
03/27/2014 2:38:52 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
To: SunkenCiv; shibumi
Sadly, 13 minutes later, shibumi posted almost the same thread. In other words, no, we don’t search before posting.
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posted on
03/27/2014 2:50:26 AM PDT
by
Pollster1
("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
To: Jet Jaguar
I was told that there is now an unofficial 4 hour rule on threads. If a new thread is a duplicate but 4 hours old or more, then it slides. I wasn’t told that applies to really hot breaking news, but it sometimes appears to. I can see how it would be burdensome to police duplicate low hit (< 100) threads.
29
posted on
03/27/2014 2:56:19 AM PDT
by
xzins
( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
To: SunkenCiv
Did you search before posting this?
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posted on
03/27/2014 3:09:48 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
To: SunkenCiv
It is too hard to post, I am surprised we get any at all, much less figure out if it’s been posted
31
posted on
03/27/2014 3:20:44 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
( My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: SunkenCiv
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.
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posted on
03/27/2014 3:49:51 AM PDT
by
NautiNurse
(Obama sends U.S. Marines to pick up his dog & basketballs. Benghazi? Nope.)
To: SunkenCiv
Do you need to be logged in?
33
posted on
03/27/2014 4:04:05 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Democrats lie because they must.)
To: SunkenCiv
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!
To: SunkenCiv
“No”, with an extra helping of “ not likely”.
35
posted on
03/27/2014 4:30:03 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: SunkenCiv
Umm...because it is information that can be helpful?
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posted on
03/27/2014 4:30:58 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: SunkenCiv
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.
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posted on
03/27/2014 4:47:02 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yan
(Who told you that you were naked? Genesis 3:11)
To: SunkenCiv
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.....
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posted on
03/27/2014 4:47:11 AM PDT
by
caver
(Obama: Home of the Whopper)
To: SunkenCiv
No. I figure somebody missed the story and everybody likes to hear a good story at least twice.
39
posted on
03/27/2014 5:02:13 AM PDT
by
1010RD
(First, Do No Harm)
To: F15Eagle; SunkenCiv
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posted on
03/27/2014 5:03:57 AM PDT
by
blam
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