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I posted on another car forum website(which will remain nameless, besides you all know the storys or have experinced this before), after searching for a bit for my answer. I could not find my answer so I asked a question by starting a new tread. I recieved some good help and also recieved the "It is amazing what you can find when you search" after this person's post. I mean my question was so specific that no search function would ever find it. You would have to know the exact said title or key word or have started the tread. I mean wtf :mad:is the chip on these peoples shoulders. WAS THIS NOT THE REASON FOR A FORUM????? To give and recieve. Yes repeat titles can be annoying but why not just link or skip the tread. Yeah if you start a thread What can I do to save gas? Then yeah I might say "there are some post about this" and ask them in a PM if they need help with search feature I would be willing to help them. AHHHHH! crazy, rude, people.


But that a side I really feel comfortable on this site and I love you tree huggers;):D;) (joking) . :thumbup:

Thank you all for treating humans like people.

Its a power thing.

and by the way its "THREAD" not tread !!!!!! jk :D

Haha, yeah, I used to hate honda-tech for that. Their search function sucked and then what did these people expect, threads on miraculous new ways to turn a bolt or change a brake pad? :p

LOL I meant "Tread" yeahhhhhhhh :p You must have been one of those guys ;) jking


Yeah funny another Honda website too. There was another Acura forum that was horrible about that. The "old heads" what I like to call the ones who posted the most, would get pissed! Even once blocked me for bumping someones post. Ego trips. (crap hope I don't get blocked. Crap I just said Crap!)

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Agreed!

And just incase you do decide to use it the search function here actually WORKS! Granted for me it is just good for finding threads that I've already read . . . . .

Oh and by the way on TDI club there is a thread on how to use the search, unfortunately it is very difficult to find if you can't search for it. LOL

Now that is funny :D:eek::D:eek:

LOL I knew that was coming :thumbup:

I always hated that also. A forum is where you can search, post, reply, etc. If a site expects you to get all your answers from searching, than you might as well close all new forum registrations and make the entire board a "Read Only" forum.

I even heard this stated before.............

"Why waste precious forum space when you can use search."

Um, even free forums like Invisionfree have unlimited space. That's just crazy. I had a gaming forum where people would ask the same questions over and over, but always made it a point to answer them.

On the note about Honda forums, I have noticed the few I looked at were a bit grouchy and elitist.

Since I came here I have not had a need to look on any other forum as there are enough people with a wide variety of vehicles here someone is bound to know the answer to your question whether it's car specific, aero specific or most any other question you could have.

I started a thread awhile back asking what people did for a living and in about 2 days it had reached 3 or 4 pages with people from all walks of life, technical and non-technical, gearheads, hobbyists, computer geeks/nerds (I fit each of these categories in some way so I don't mind using them). I have to say this is by far the friendliest online community I have ever been involved in and I am proud to be in the (e-)presence of the great people here!

This drives me nuts as a new member to forums...

I was working on my Mom-in-Law's car and needed an answer that the search function didn't pinpoint at a particular site.

It took the darn place ONE WEEK to approve my account -- this was after e-mailing the site Admin, which the 1000-word agreement expressively prohibited.

It was 6-days late -- I bought a Haynes manual and figured stuff out myself the next day. It would have been nice to save $15.

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Rule #1: Welcome every member, uniquely. These are actual people out there, not just print on a screen.

It does take maintenance to point folks to the "common advice" areas with vague questions -- but many are new to forums. A simple "Welcome Mat" goes a long way. All it takes is a little time...

RH77

In its many variations, the rhetorical "What's the point of a forum if you can't ask questions?" is a common retort when folks are told to search. While at the most basic level, it's a valid point, it's also true that it's almost always uttered by someone who hasn't bothered to do any searches or even look down the page at similar discussions that are already going on.

In your case, you'd obviously done some searches (good for you), but folks often don't tell anyone that, and if so, they don't specify what they searched on (I mean specific words, including the way they spelled it). Those are essential elements that are often left out of the post.

I have no qualms in admitting I'm one of those folks who tell folks to search. The main reason I do so is that I'm irked by someone who expects (nay, demands) that others put out effort for them before they've done so on their own behalf. If someone has put out an honest effort to educate themselves on the situation, I never come back with a "Search for it..." type of answer. The folks who don't bother/care to search are often the same folks who don't bother/care to even do any rudimentary investigation of the vehicle before they run to the computer to make the post -- you'd be amazed at the number of people who ask something like "Why doesn't my headlight work?" before they've even checked the bulb or the fuses.

In response to the hubbub and complaints/demands/entreaties for a FAQ that always occurred when this subject came up, I wrote this FAQ in response: Searching The Site: How, Why, and Excuses. Yes, that's a BMW E28 5-Series board, but the principles apply to all boards.

I have to say this is one of the nicer forums I visit, and probably the best fuel economy site I've read. The group here doesn't seem to beat down the ideas of others quite as badly as some MPG forums. I think most of them would laugh me off the internet for wanting to do anything other than scrap what I drive (yeah, I want a better rig for daily duties, but that's not easy working part time). I am a member of a 4x4 board or two where we flog people who ask the same question over and over like it's our job, but one of them has a FAQ that's been a 4 year effort, and there is a newbie section if you're hard of reading.

There are other forums? Huh. I only have time for what works.
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I guess I got lucky. This is the only forum I have ever been on, and the most time I have ever spent on the computer.. It's pretty cool