When the topic was asked last week and 10 times before in the last two years (or thereabouts) it gets a bit tiring keep repeating the same answers. When folks get tired answering the same questions, they might not participate as much in discussions and that makes the forum less useful to all.
Yes it's very difficult to ask a question that hasn't been answered before. It's pretty much impossible. But also there is joy in reading the wisdom that has been shared before, because there are often different perspectives from which to learn and also that that is the beauty of the forum format. It's the very reason "FAQ's" came into use for the commonest (but often less complicated) concepts.
Many times in the past I took the time to look up 4 or 10 relevant search results and posted them for folks who asked the most common questions with lots and lots of prior discussion. Seems no one ever appreciated it, so I stopped. But I'll never stop letting a fellow know there's a similar/same topic open inside the lat 30 days or so. Perhaps he missed it in his searching, and isn't on the forum every day. These things I do not know-unless he mentions in it, or the research he did, in the Original Post.
I have learned a lot from folks who have left the forum (passed or otherwise), going back in time expands the knowledge base from which you're learning. So it also more effective than just asking the "folks in the room". That's kinda how I look at it.
Feel quite free to do as you wish, research isn't for everyone. I used to dig in the ALR forum before this current setup-it's archived somewhere and at that time this edition of the ALR was just a few years old so had far less volumes of information to dig through.
