OP etiquette: should CF be more professional?

[sailorboy1]

you people are really wasting my time by making me read this stuff

speaking of repeat thread topics, why hasn't there been a gun thread in a long time???

[tp12]

Originally Posted by sailorboy1

you people are really wasting my time by making me read this stuff

speaking of repeat thread topics, why hasn't there been a gun thread in a long time???

What's your favourite anchor?

[senormechanico]

Another line should be added to the poll:


"Should we close this thread?"

[sailorboy1]

Originally Posted by senormechanico

Another line should be added to the poll:


"Should we close this thread?"

why? looks that the last post before this one was only 45 minutes ago

[SwellGuy]

Search and do due diligence before posting? Ha! I didn't even get through the first page of this thread before responding.

I think of CF as more like a casual conversation than an encyclopedia. It's not a lot of good searching for stuff when half the folks on here can't spell anyways.

[David M]

How boring would it be to be told to go scouring through pages and pages of posts and threads to find an answer...before being allowed to answer a question? I see this tactic used in some other forums and it sounds like a really snotty thing to say...."Search the data base first, dude". "Then we will grace you with the honor of being able to ask us a question".

Half the fun is getting answers from people in somewhat real-time. If someone does not like seeing the repetition then don't come here. The other half of the fun is the social aspect. There is no social aspect to searching through a database.

In the 12 years that I have been a member, I have seen hundreds of questions repeated. Nobody is requiring you to read them.

[JPA Cate]

About CF's search functions....

The first option is something that is case sensitive, and requires a perfect match; whereas, the CF Custom Google Search works like a Google search, it's great for ideas and concepts, and is the one I use about 99% of the time.

Sometimes, I'd rather look up stuff first, to get data straight before I write. I might not be the only one!