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Why Don't People Search The Forum Archives?

What CD player has a volume Control? Newbee in the world of analog? What are the best cables for the money?

Sound Familiar?

I spent some time searching the forum archives, and was amazed at the wealth of information contained within. Often, many individuals have and post legitimate questions. Although, these questions (in many cases) have been answered time and time again in the forum archives.

Unfortunately, due to the redundancy of these questions, many of the well established Audiogoner's will no longer respond to these redundant/repeat questions. This may leave the individual asking the question feeling somewhat neglected, not realizing that their question has been answered and/or discussed many times previous.

I also find it interesting, that Audiogon management explicitly states in the "What We Will Decline" section of "Moderation Guidlines", that questions of repetitional nature will be filtered and declined.

http://forum.audiogon.com/fr/moderated_guide.html

The forum archives are a tremendous resource of information. Is there a manner in which individuals posting in the forum could be directed to the forum archives BEFORE posting their particular question? I mention this because the individual posting, may find more complete coverage of their particular question already exists, yielding them much more thorough results/information. Could the Audiogon moderators utilize "keywords" of a newly asked question in order to refer to the archives before that particular question is actually posted?

Would this be considered or construed as unreasonable?

Could this be considered "overmoderated"?

Any suggestions/input?
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unclejeff
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Pbb said it very well. New people on the site should be greeted. We all start somewhere and it is often the nature of that greeting/response that will keep the newbies around.

Remember, new is good, especially when you want to sell old equipment.
unclejeff
1,313 posts
 
I really don't have a problem with Audiogon's Search Engine. I am one of those who often won't find what I am looking for on the first search but, having read the first results, I find clues to where I do want to go.

I found audiogon by entering McIntosh in my main search engine.

About the only suggestion I would offer is a chronological one. Perhaps the Audiogon engine could start at the most recent referance and go backwards from there.

Any discussion requires a degree of redundancy and discourse and I am not at all irked by the same question as sometimes there is an unexpected answer or opinion and this is good. Also, such posts redundant posts remind me of something that I had forgotten to pursue. True, I will on occasion suggest a search here on audiogon when I remember previous threads that had many suggestions/answers where a terrific amount of information already stored can make for lots of provocative thought.

I really appreciate it when fellow members direct me to specific threads and I extend great appreciation and respect to each of you who go through the effort to research and then provide such help!
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