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Originally Posted by MaHuJa

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.

Listen, I did not post my first reply to begin a polemic, but I feel that you forced me into a very sterile discussion that should not have begin in the first place.
Since when someone on the net decide for the others that one thread is not acceptable. I think that I am rather confident that it will not be you or the one who begun this particular thread.
Now, we knew before that when DW will go retail, newbies will come to this forum to ask all kind of questions (the ones we ourselves asked when we then got DW) and that’s the way it is. And I respect it. Of course, nowadays, I don’t read most this threads but sometimes, it is good to look back at some of the matters that were discussed previously. Anyway, it doesn’t hurt anybody.

BTW, this thread has nothing to do in this forum, and I would urge the moderator to locked it before it is too late.