Is there really such a thing as a repost?

[AllanB]

Some people are just petty.....I'll ignore anyone I think is an idiot no matter what their post count or length of service, Either are a pretty poor badge of honour. If peple of any "era" what to discuss a topic of interest to them then they should be able to with out the sheep butting in and crying foul.

To me someone posting "repost" is of less worth then the repost, Unless its done in fun, so who the hell knows?

Well said.

Yep if reposted and you know the old one just post a helpful link or PO.

[James Deuce]

It's fucking annoying is what it is. 90% of what gets posted on KB is now a repost. The search engine is a piece of piss to use and takes no time at all.

You know that annoying relative who keeps telling the same story like you've never heard it before?

That's KB.

McJim summed it up nicely:

"Start a waving thread
Start a what fucken 250 should I buy thread
Start a lane splitting thread
and worst of all:
Start a my GN125 is fucked thread"

[McJim]

The way I see it there are 2 choices - both of which fall foul of the Netiquette Nazis. You can start a new thread (which is a repost) or you can add a comment to the original thread (called Necro ing). So if you do have a point of view either way on an old subject your only recourse is to start a forum of your own and post it there coz you're damned either way.

[Conquiztador]

Yes!! It happened. I was sitting here counting the minutes to when this thread was joined with my old one re the subject.

52 minutes!!

And moved to "Site Stuff" too.

You do live a interesting life...

[Virago]

...You do live a interesting life...

Merging the threads took all of 10 seconds. How long did it take you to type your "repost"? I think that perhaps YOU need to get a life...

[MIXONE]

FFS this sounds like kindy kids who can't get their own way.

[Nagash]

Well what happened to that Wikipedia-esk idea? Archiving all the useful information on KB into an easy to read, point and click format.

Cause besides the rare snippets of information like current day news, or posting a new ride, pretty much everything else is a repost. Which means that this forum is just a big archive. Instead of pouring through stuff you've already, why not submit it to that wikipedia thing. Atleast that'd be productive..

[Conquiztador]

Merging the threads took all of 10 seconds. How long did it take you to type your "repost"? I think that perhaps YOU need to get a life...

Not long. I just c/p from an old post..

[Mikkel]

Often I see "repost" mentioned when someone starts a thread or does a posting.

KB has new people joining all the time. Just have a look at the amount of postings the members have who contribute on this side. Sure, there is the ones who have 1000+ postings (and will remember a discussion that was held 2 yars ago) But many are new members and for them any discussion they participate in is something new. Personally I really dislike the "repost" that others attach to a posting/thread that some newer member of this site enthusiastically contibutes. What more does the "repost" signal then that you do not have dementia and you probably should do something better with your time?

How could there ever be a thread/posting that has already been done? It is like saying that just because you have ridden a road once there is no reason to do so again. But we all know that there is so many variables that will change the experience even if the same road is ridden daily: The weather, time of day/night, other travellers, our moode, condition of our bike, tyres, and list goes on. Exactly same thing regarding a thread/posting. New members joining in, perhaps there has been a new development regarding the issue, our situation has changed, we have changed our mind, the replies will be totally different, etc.

I often find it insulting that a "older" member plasters "repost" on to a posting/thread of a new member who after some consideration has decided to join in. This can at times be daunting for someone new, but they have decided to take the plunge, only to be smacked with "repost" because someone who should have moved on years ago has a elephant memory and too much time on their hands.

Instead of focusing on picking others postings to pieces and trawling through the search function to find that, in fact, in November 2004 some obscure member posted a very similar posting, instead of this should you not be out riding?

(I am sure that this has been done before and so I am waiting for the repost label by the most observant here...)

[Conquiztador]

Often I see "repost" mentioned when someone starts a thread or does a posting.

KB has new people joining all the time. Just have a look at the amount of postings the members have who contribute on this side. Sure, there is the ones who have 1000+ postings (and will remember a discussion that was held 2 yars ago) But many are new members and for them any discussion they participate in is something new. Personally I really dislike the "repost" that others attach to a posting/thread that some newer member of this site enthusiastically contibutes. What more does the "repost" signal then that you do not have dementia and you probably should do something better with your time?

How could there ever be a thread/posting that has already been done? It is like saying that just because you have ridden a road once there is no reason to do so again. But we all know that there is so many variables that will change the experience even if the same road is ridden daily: The weather, time of day/night, other travellers, our moode, condition of our bike, tyres, and list goes on. Exactly same thing regarding a thread/posting. New members joining in, perhaps there has been a new development regarding the issue, our situation has changed, we have changed our mind, the replies will be totally different, etc.

I often find it insulting that a "older" member plasters "repost" on to a posting/thread of a new member who after some consideration has decided to join in. This can at times be daunting for someone new, but they have decided to take the plunge, only to be smacked with "repost" because someone who should have moved on years ago has a elephant memory and too much time on their hands.

Instead of focusing on picking others postings to pieces and trawling through the search function to find that, in fact, in November 2004 some obscure member posted a very similar posting, instead of this should you not be out riding?

(I am sure that this has been done before and so I am waiting for the repost label by the most observant here...)

Bling sent. Could not have said it better my self!!

[Kickaha]

I often find it insulting that a "older" member plasters "repost" on to a posting/thread of a new member

REPOST FFS!:

Yeah bastard repost police

[Virago]

I often find it insulting that a "older" member plasters "repost" on to a posting/thread of a new member...

REPOST FFS!...

Bwahahahahaha...!

[James Deuce]

Often I see "repost" mentioned when someone starts a thread or does a posting.

KB has new people joining all the time. Just have a look at the amount of postings the members have who contribute on this side. Sure, there is the ones who have 1000+ postings (and will remember a discussion that was held 2 yars ago) But many are new members and for them any discussion they participate in is something new. Personally I really dislike the "repost" that others attach to a posting/thread that some newer member of this site enthusiastically contibutes. What more does the "repost" signal then that you do not have dementia and you probably should do something better with your time?

How could there ever be a thread/posting that has already been done? It is like saying that just because you have ridden a road once there is no reason to do so again. But we all know that there is so many variables that will change the experience even if the same road is ridden daily: The weather, time of day/night, other travellers, our moode, condition of our bike, tyres, and list goes on. Exactly same thing regarding a thread/posting. New members joining in, perhaps there has been a new development regarding the issue, our situation has changed, we have changed our mind, the replies will be totally different, etc.

I often find it insulting that a "older" member plasters "repost" on to a posting/thread of a new member who after some consideration has decided to join in. This can at times be daunting for someone new, but they have decided to take the plunge, only to be smacked with "repost" because someone who should have moved on years ago has a elephant memory and too much time on their hands.

Instead of focusing on picking others postings to pieces and trawling through the search function to find that, in fact, in November 2004 some obscure member posted a very similar posting, instead of this should you not be out riding?

(I am sure that this has been done before and so I am waiting for the repost label by the most observant here...)

Repost. I shot my dog.

The ones that are annoying are the ones in my signature.

Open "Search". Type GT250R. Watch what comes back. Type CBR250. Watch what comes back.

Most of all though, very few people on KB are actively helpful. So it falls to a couple of people to type the same shit over and over again.

Then those people get to watch the same crowd of unhelpful bastards type the same shit they always do in response to an RFI on a Hyobag WITHOUT READING THE HELPFUL PERSON'S POST AND THE INFORMATION CONTAINED THEREIN. They're always the same people who've never even ridden one, but their mate's third cousin's Aunt had one catch fire and melt the faces of all her children, so they must be "shit", eh?

So to get right to the point and piss myself and others off right from the word go, I just type "repost", because no one gives a flying fuck, do they?

[Swoop]

Surely there is some electronic internettingly clever way of setting things up for the noobs?
Whenever they go to post, a "search-the-site box" appears first, perhaps?

Have this for the first 50 posts and get them into a habit.