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Why Don't People Search The Forum Archives?

What CD player has a volume Control? Newbee in the world of analog? What are the best cables for the money?

Sound Familiar?

I spent some time searching the forum archives, and was amazed at the wealth of information contained within. Often, many individuals have and post legitimate questions. Although, these questions (in many cases) have been answered time and time again in the forum archives.

Unfortunately, due to the redundancy of these questions, many of the well established Audiogoner's will no longer respond to these redundant/repeat questions. This may leave the individual asking the question feeling somewhat neglected, not realizing that their question has been answered and/or discussed many times previous.

I also find it interesting, that Audiogon management explicitly states in the "What We Will Decline" section of "Moderation Guidlines", that questions of repetitional nature will be filtered and declined.

http://forum.audiogon.com/fr/moderated_guide.html

The forum archives are a tremendous resource of information. Is there a manner in which individuals posting in the forum could be directed to the forum archives BEFORE posting their particular question? I mention this because the individual posting, may find more complete coverage of their particular question already exists, yielding them much more thorough results/information. Could the Audiogon moderators utilize "keywords" of a newly asked question in order to refer to the archives before that particular question is actually posted?

Would this be considered or construed as unreasonable?

Could this be considered "overmoderated"?

Any suggestions/input?
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jeffloistarca
1,004 posts
 
STFA. When I suggested the very same thing many moons ago I took some heat for excluding newbies or not taking into account the "rapidly evolving world of audio". So I simply ignore repeat posts.

I can almost understand and tolerate the 48th "I'm looking for a tube CD player with gain". Hell, many newbies aren't even aware of how to search the forums so you can't blame 'em. Maybe AudioGon needs to highlight the search feature on the "New Today" section of the forums so it's always front and center.

Now if we could only fix the "Pick my next amp for me. Linn vs. ARC vs. Bat vs. Pass vs. Bose" posts...
sean
6,231 posts
 
Jeff: I don't think that Bose has offered any preamps since the mid 1970's. As such, i would say that any of the others would probably be a better choice. To be completely PC here though, you should probably listen to all of these in your own system and decide what you like best based on your own personal preferences and system synergy. If you doubt this, look it up in the archives : ) Sean
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colitas
150 posts
 
Even after searching and reading the archives there are still questions to be had on prior information. "Strange Tonearm Tweak", being my example, an extremely long thread begun by TWL. Even in this long thread there was no mention of cartridge compliance, a concept I was completely ignorant of. I only found out after repeated postings of redundant questions. Some of us "newbies", just don't get it without repeated answers. It seems the tonearm tweak would not work with my high compliance cartridge(Grado Plat.). I'm glad I was persistent in asking those redundant questions!
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warrenh
2,299 posts
 
Now, that would be a nice study. How long does it take for a post from birth to burn out, to come back, again, as the original question? I was just thinking about this a few days ago. The 'gon has been, to me, noticably redundant. When this happens audiopool enui sets in and anything can happen from that. Usually negative stuff. It would be interesting if there was a spot on the 'gon for NEW news. What's going down in the audiophool think tanks. That kind of thing. Maybe something to provoke interesting exchanges. What are the best ICs for my...? Can't takes it no more. I only recommend what I own, or use to own. Others recommend every cable under the sun ( or what they have read about in Stereophool or the like) whether they have heard it or not? And others, who have listened to every cable (get a life) recommend a plethora of choices, which means diddly squat most of the time, given the electronics/component match ups. Hey I'm going awry, here. I love the 'gon, but things are just plain ole dull , lately. What can we do to mix it up? Ed that was greati timing with your post. Took the words right out of my mouth. peace, warren
budrew
467 posts
 
Often times people just want the latest. Last months answers may not count for much.
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