Does it not bug anyone the repetitive nature of questions?

I would say that a lot of the repetitive question are made by people

A) Trying to sell something
2) Have an agenda
3) Purposely trying to get a rise out of people.
4) Trying to get hits for the website.


Now excuse me while I wash down my raspberry keystones and green coffee bean extract with a MLM magical shake with hundreds of super foods in it.

And bacon......

Never forget bacon.

I need bacon.

Nope, doesn't annoy me one bit

When I was new here I asked a lot of questions that have probably been asked before (didn't even think of the search function back then) and got a lot of answers that helped me get to where I am now.

If we are spending time on this forum anyway then does it really matter how many times the question is asked if the answer helps the OP?

Surely by now every conceivable question must have been answered many times, so if everyone did a search there would be no forum because no questions would ever need to be asked again (except the chit chat topic maybe).

Doesn't bother me. If people were required to only ask questions that nobody had ever answered before this would be a very boring and quiet place to be. We come here to exchange information, ideas. and support. Preaching at people about what they post doesn't help them. It more than likely has run a lot of people away from MFP and that's really sad.

Sweating the small stuff isn't healthy. Peace.

>>Sweating the small stuff isn't healthy. Peace. <<

+1

I find it highly annoying. :laugh: If there's something I'm curious about or just don't know, I'll use the search function. It tends to gather a lot of useful information without clogging up the board with the same, often repeated questions.

But how doe threads like this not clog up the board? And then there are people who just wanna complain about the question being somehow unacceptable and trying to shame people into submission. Not exactly a hospitable place for new people.

Also, I joined in 2012 but never used the site until recently. When I see someone post a question I sometimes realize that their question is never anything I would have ever thought to ask and I end up clicking on it and learning. I have made new friends on those kinds of threads and we support each other on our own outside the community.

I think it is safe to assume that the vast majority of questions have already been answered, so if it bothers people, don't look at the board to answer any more questions.

I love the "I just can't eat my 1200 cal. I'm too stuffed" yet you look at their ticker and they're like 200lbs overweight. Just insane how many of those are posted.

My impression has been it's a can't-win scenario. If you ask a repetitive question, you get harangued for asking a question for the hundredth time. If you use the search function, find an old thread, and bump it to thank the OP, reignite the conversation, etc., you get harangued for necro'ing a dead thread.

Mostly I just like using the word "harangue."

I enjoyed your use of it too; must work 'harangue' into a sentence soon...

I'm mean 9 times out of 10 i will always see someone asking why they aren't loosing weight and they are eating something ridiculous like 700 kals a day and sending they're bodys into starvation mode.

You're not the first person to ask this question.

The only thing that bugs me is when the same person asks the same question over and over, or asks the same basic question in multiple posts slightly different ways because they don't like the answer they are getting.