I agree 100%. But people don’t seem to search for duplicate threads anymore. Sometimes even when it’s blatantly obvious there’s the same thread already posted.
It’s just pure laziness. I gave up on the search engine a long time ago. Instead I switched to article view to scan the day’s new entries to see if an article had already been posted. With the current higher access speeds there is no excuse for duplicate postings. I hestitate to ascribe dubious motives as a rule, but do notice that some of these seem to be concious that efforts to derail the original posts that have responses the second poster is not in agreement with. Just sayin’.