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Ayn_Rand_Food_Stamps t1_ixz45l9 wrote

> It appears that you think in a sub with nearly 1.2 million people subscribed to it, that having everyone just ask repetitive questions that someone probably also asked no more than an hour ago is perfectly fine?

You don't have to answer every single question dude. There are 1.2 million users on this sub, and one of them can handle it when it gets too much for you.

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QWERKey-UK t1_ixzdgvz wrote

I fail to see how that adds anything to the argument. It's not whether people's posts get answered or not that was the problem. It was the sheer volume of repeat questions on a daily basis. Loads of people just asking the same questions without even checking if anyone else had asked the same question. You'd see the same "what switch should I get", or "how do I fix a key that double types" questions posted repeatedly by multiple people, often within a short space of time. It just made trying to read this sub awful. If people took the time to read the sub properly, read the wiki, and did a little research of their own before they fired off questions this wouldn't be a problem... but they don't, so it makes sense to have a place for these questions to be asked, and also to have the thread reset every day. The threads are archived. It's not as if it gets deleted, so you can still search for them. Surely you have to agree that it makes more sense for people to just search out existing threads that probably already contain the answers they are looking for instead of just posting the same question again?

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