Search before creating a topic

[Nebulous]

Have you been on a forum where they expect you to search the forum before creating a new topic?

Do you care if a new thread on an existing topic is created? Will you merge them or will you allow multiple threads about the same subject?

 

[Nebulous]

I've been on a few strict forums where I actually received a warning because I created a topic that was similar to an existing topic. The staff member shouting at me to search before posting....
yeah bye

As for OT, I don't expect anyone to search my forum every time they want to create a thread. I am thankful that someone would want to take time out of their day to create a new thread here in the first place. I don't care if there is more than one thread on the same subject. An old thread from 10 years ago is pretty much irrelevant and chances are most of those members arent around anymore to continue the conversation. Better to have a new thread with people who are actually there.

 

[Kane]

I wouldn't bother to look at pages after page to see if the topic has been posted previously or not. However, if the forum has enabled a feature where you can see similar topics pop up while trying to write the title of the topic., I always try to avoid the topic that has been discussed earlier.

 

[Heatman]

It is something that I've always done whenever I am in any community trying to create a new topic because I know that there is always a possibility of another person having created a topic that I have in mind to create. This is why I will always check to know whether the topic has been created, so that I'm not going to create a double topic in the forum because it is just making a mess of the whole thing.