"We've had a lot of people comment on subjects and not acknowledging what they have said in the past suggests that maybe I shouldn't bother with what you say now. I'm interested in your comments......and I'm also interested in the older comments as well. See, I feel it's the same thing as someone posting to a thread without reading the other posts......Kinda' like saying "mine is the only opinion that matters" isn't it?" --catspaw49

Thanks for taking the time to post this longer reply. Maybe if more of us viewed it this way things would remain more civil around here, there'd be more useful info with less repetition. I aknowledge that there is a difference between mere repetition and putting a finer point to a question, but this is one of the few things that results in the inflammatory comments about clichishness.

I wish there was a way to do a search to illustrate (for the sake of making this point) the huge number of times that someone posts a response that gets no reply (which is fine).....but then that post is followed by another post making virually the identical point.....and because the second poster is more of a regular around here, someone, in good friendly fashion will acknowledge his brilliance, thereby effectively shitting upon the head of the first poster-------a flamer is born.

Bob, if there were only one "mudcat law" and I were allowed to write that law, it would be, hard and fast, No one may post to a thread that they have not read in its entirety. ---that's it. Simple law.

Is it too damn hard to acknowledge, within your post, a previous post that is related to your point?

Im not sure I understand either, the "me too" type of post. Sure sometimes me too is the appropriate answer to a "How many of you..." type question......but that's not what happens. So many times a raw info type question is posted and what results is several people, acting independently, and without acknowledging each other post the same thing over and over in list manner. Is this an assumption that these questions are asked in poll fashion, and the most identical answers wins?