I enjoy many of the discussions that ensue when a person asks a question that they could have answered privately, by doing the requisite searches, etc. I would hate to surpress the asking of questions, no matter how naive or repetitive (as if we could, but that's another matter...).

As others have pointed out, many interesting side issues are brought up and discussed, we learn who amongst each other is interested in the same stuff as ourselves, and a good time is generally had by all.

I think the ones who enjoy it most might be those quick-on-the-trigger regulars who so often manage to supply a (correct) answer within minutes. (Of course, there are others who appear just as regularly and just as quickly to issue a curmudgeonly "Look it up your own d**n self!")

The only problem, the only really valid complaint, as far as I can see, comes once the question gets answered, creating an item of potentially archivable data residing in a random "scattered" location. I can certainly see how this is undesirable.

How can we best handle supplying an answer, without adding any more work than necessary to the burden assumed by our volunteer administrators? Would it help to create a new "LYR ADD" thread in addition to the response within the thread created to ask the question? It would be easy enough to respond in a post within the thread and then to copy-and-paste the essential info (lyrics or whatever) into a new thread. Is this a helpful suggestion?