SlagA
Tuesday 8th September 2009 1:24pm [Edited]
Blackwood
5,335 posts
Quote: john lucas 101 @ September 8 2009, 9:27 AM BST
Usually when people ask that kind of question they're met with some huffy bastard directing them to use the search facility
Now if you'd only used the search facility you'd have realised someone's already said this. 
Quote: Tim Walker @ September 8 2009, 9:32 AM BST
The system works beautifully. 
Is my response too.
If others here learned to recycle posts then we could prevent the world running out of comedy forum posts by the late 2020s.
Quote: john lucas 101 @ September 8 2009, 9:33 AM BST
the first thing they're met with is some haughty repsonse that they should use the search engine, when, in all probablity, they've barely looked at the site. Bit off-putting, eh?
Me? More socially inappropriate than haughty. (Answer generated by HaughtyModBot 2.2)
Let's face it, a newbie posting before bothering to read the pinned posts, etc, is like walking into a dating agency with your cock hanging out. And even the old hands get threads closed so it's a completely impartial system. Else we'd be drowning under Groundhog Day repetitions of How do I format? / What formatting software? / who do I send it to? / Newsrevue and Treason style questions. While the important questions like Marc's book would go unnoticed.
Quote: chipolata @ September 8 2009, 10:13 AM BST
It does seem a bit churlish to close threads and refer them to one that was started thirty-two months ago.
Not if that thread gives them the answer. 
