I understand perfectly what you're saying and where you're coming from, Noldor. However, the beauty of this form of asynchronous communication is that we each get the CHOICE of clicking on a thread topic or not. If we were meeting FTF, it would be exponentially more annoying to have to discuss the same issues every time we met and you wouldn't be able to escape the redundant questions. In this forum, we can escape those things by making the choice not to read a thread and go on to the next one.
The real problem I have with the generic "search for it" response is that this is a growing community of people with diverse background knowledge and involvement levels. There is simply no quicker way to kill an online community such as this than alienating the "newbies" with those "search for it" responses (right next to over-zealous, thread-locking mods).
As Rick has already pointed out, this community will soon be migrated to another area. When that happens, the FPSC community will need every member of the board. It is through that growing and sustained membership that FPSC will become a better, evolving tool.
And again, I don't think it's a big "sifting" job at all. The forum is set up so you can see the thread topics right away. It's a simple matter of scanning the threads at the top and then making the choice to click or not to click. Redundancy becomes much less annoying when you get into the habit of being selective on your clicks
That's all I was trying to point out with my earlier comments.
