ABCDiamond

But make sure your thread title mentions your question or people who don't look at ALL the threads won't see your question

MrsDagboy

And the last lot are daft enough to keep answering the same "where's the best place to live in Brisbane/Perth/Melb/Adelaide/Sydney" threads over & over ad naseum .

I dont think you will ever be able to force people to use the search facility all the time, just as you can't dictate what people can & cant put in their thread titles, but I'm with ABC (& Pandy in principle), please try to make the thread titles reflect the question otherwise some of us who dont have time to read every thread wont even bother to read it.

And lets face it - the goal of asking a question on this board is to get the most peoples opinions/experiences that we can. (Or even just one valid one )

pandya_m

Thanks for understand us Ms Dagboy.
Ok lets put so eg. How many times we hit the "ToDo list before and after coming to Oz" question....???
I think 3 times myself. And all the redirection was made to the older threads.
This itself is ok for the person who starts the thread or silly question to force him to search and feel of guilt of asking stupid question.
Our task is to ask them to go search since the ans is already answered. Thats how the other will know to do it first and then ask.
We dont want to force but they have to do some homework, before raising a question or doubt. We are here to facilited them and get facilitated. Lets make the help not so cheap...

hevs

Well i'm lost

If you are saying that we should word a thread title so that it facilitates a searcher to be able to find something that has been posted already, then i agree in principle. (eg, stuff to do MELBOURNE or living in SYDNEY etc is easy)

However stuff changes all the time so the banking question, although it has been asked at least 100 million times i learnt something the time before last when someone posted a link to bank west 6% rate. These questions are viable Australia wide.

Everyone has a right to ask whatever they want, its up to the person replying weather they take the time to post the link to HSBC, DIMIA etc etc for the 50th time

I open most things, skim them and if i have the patience to answer i do, if not i don't. Simple really. The board has been a valuable source of info for me since i joined and it will only continue to be so if people bother to ask stuff and reply to stuff. Its a forum, surely thats how it works

pandya_m

Ok let put it that way.
Bank works with govt guidlines so with minor changes in policy it will be gereric to all the 6 states across. Talking about the banking norms across Oz.

Now if one wants to aks specific question about SYDNEYrinking water Purification. That makes sense in putting subject line with the name of city/state.

If the query does not reflect pertaining to state then its obviouly gereric and no need to put the state. But yes the question about bank can go like this.
BANK: Cheaper tansfer/
BANK: Higher Interest

Again if more feedbacks are added to the thread other than Transfer or Interest thats all knowlege around the issue. Its always better to have 120% then 100% of the matter...
Hope this clarifies..

bridiej

I'm still waiting for you to return my karma...

pandya_m

Not me I havent commited you anything hey...

hevs

so................. Are you our newest moderator then

Jamiem

The general consensus seems to be that everyone (myself included) is happy the way things are.

Stop meddling.

pandya_m

who me...
Not me
Sue is the one.. ask her...she has lots of blue stars she can give you some

Phoenixuk2oz

Me thinks it's a wind up hevs

I'd even go as far as to say this is a poster who's posting under a different name

Ooooo armchair theatre is soooo much fun

Someone pass the popcorn please

bridiej

I gave you some on Friday, the idea is to return it!

hevs

You reckon?? Who? tell me who and i'll bloody slap 'em

JackTheLad

Is it? I thought the idea was you gave Karma when you thought the poster/person deserved it, and expected nothing in return?

Cheers,
JTL

Bix

Okay, I own up....tis me

Now, will you slap me, when ? go on, when will you slap me ?