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Originally Posted by Orm
I thought that we were in democracy or what?? :hmm:
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I know players based in non-democracies, who likely have access to these boards...
...were you saying anything?
Oh, and... what did democracy have to do with any of this to begin with?
That said, on to the topic of searching first:
1) You should make sure to say that the results of a search are *immediate* as opposed to waiting for a reply. That is quite the incentive for those struggling with a game etc.
2) It's often hard to find something unless you can come up with the exact words used in the posts you are looking for. And we do have quite a vocabulary in navalsimming, which may not be apparent to a newbie.
Only a FAQ can help on that, and that only with great care.
3) There are discussion groups (mailing lists) where repeating the basic questions are encouraged, and copy/paste answers are discouraged. The reason is that in formulating the answer over again (=differently) each time
new aspects may be illuminated. (Yikes... Can anyone come up with a more elegant (and most importantly commonly understandable) way of saying it? I'm stuck...)
There is much about DWBasics that isn't totally a given.
(Some basic questions turned into ~50 post threads because of something that turned up as described.)
4) (Some? Many?) People tend to think that their question is somewhat unique - usually in the light that they haven't known anything like it themselves, perhaps? And if it
was unique, searching would be a waste of time.