It's always a positive to find out someone cares about your frustration. I only have so much time in a given day, and getting half a dozen emails on a 3 year old topic that don't point to the addition of anything actually new on the topic is just annoying as all get out, as this is a topic I remembered well without even having to read through the 7 pages of posts. I certainly don't deny that people enjoy expressing their opinions, but Twitter is for twits with nothing better to do, and serves no useful purpose whatsoever. The last thing I have all that much interest in is 24 hours of opinion.... I have more than enough of my own to worry about.
As to duplication of answers helping to prove that the problem still exists, and that the concensus of opinions is indeed on track, I agree that such is true, but I'll claim it was also true as of 3 years ago, and because of the "timeless nature" of the problem, that, in and of itself, is kind of obvious. Thus, I don't really need to have the obvious re-stated several times over for a "timeless" problem. That's another feature of human nature... other folks repeating the mistakes of others because everyone hasn't learned everything yet. It's going to keep happening. I'm just standing up and saying "Hey, wait a minute! - Haven't we been down that road already?"
Jeff Moden (8/18/2013)
I guess it depends. I'm linked to probably 50 or 60 thousand posts where I get an email anytime someone responds to one of them no matter how old they are. It doesn't bother me because I have my email setup to sequester all email in one folder dedicated to receiving SSC email. Since each link in the emails takes me directly to the given post, I just sort by subject and descending date, pick the latest email on a given subject, and then scroll up once I've gotten to the post. It takes me about 5 seconds to see if I need to read more and only about 6 seconds to decide if I want to respond. It's just not a problem and duplicating answers is just proof that the problem still exists and that there may be a concensus on how to handle it. Deleting the posts by subject is easy to do en masse.You're right. I have commented on the "problem" of people responding to old posts, in the past. My comment is normally directed to someone pointing out that the post is serveral years old and my comment is normally "So? It was a good subject then and it's a good subject now." 😛
Threads like this one deal with a timeless subject. I certainly understand when someone responds to express an opinion about it even if it has been said a hundred times already, especially if they're having the same problem right now. It's human nature to respond in such a fashion otherwise sites like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn would have never gotten off the ground. Although I don't always care for human nature, it only takes a couple of seconds to scan the titles and delete whole blocks of emails even if I take a quick peek at the latest post. That's a whole lot easier to do than to try to delete human nature.
The only reason why I responded to this one was because I saw a frustrated friend.:-)
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