[1rudeboy]

If you are surfing the web, and find a news item that is worthy of posting, and then come here and discover it's already posted, then the best thing to do is merely bump the original thread, which due to your hard work is already at your fingertips. Not only does the rest of the forum get a chance to see all the earlier comments on the original post, but someone who missed the thread the first time around is equally likely to see it than if you went ahead and posted the whole article over again. Plus, you get the occasional satisfaction of resurrecting a dormant thread. [my 2c]

[Slyfox]

Plus, you get the occasional satisfaction of resurrecting a dormant thread. [my 2c]

I agree. I don't knowingly post an article that I can see has already been posted. I bump dormant thread's all the time. I have been known to bump REAL dormant thread's, like the ones on somebody else's profile page that they have saved. Because, while I am reading the one year old article I forget that it's not fresh at all. And then somebody gets a ping from me. Geez, I hate when I do that.

I just think that some people around here should not get their panties all in a wad if someone happens to post an article that has already been posted. And Lord help the person who gets caught by the search-nazi's by posting something that has been flying around on email that for some reason they have never seen before and wouldn't know what specific key words to use to see if it has EVER been posted before.

It has happened to the best of us. And it will happen as long as this forum is around.