I don't know if it's shown outside of the UK, but some of you might be aware of a programme called Badiel and Skinner, Unplanned. Well, in it, to make sure that they don't talk about the same topic again and again, they have a board on which they write each subject they deal with.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If people are so bothered about how often new people* bring up old topics, then why not make a sticky on which is listed all the topics that have been done to death. If someone posts something that's on the board, it gets locked--obviously the mod would use his or her discretion--and the poster is asked to look at the sticky. Maybe when each topic is added, a link could be added to the original topic, so that people could find it and add to it, without having to search for vague key-words.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don't know... it's just a suggestion--I've not thought it through, so there's probably some flaws in it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*who likely don't realise that this board has been going long enough to have had their topic come up many times already.

Not a bad idea, though i'm sure it has flaws all over the place, and we'd probably end up moaning at people for not reading the stickies, plus it'd be a responsibility to update the thread lots. Guess i'm just picking out flaws, could be a good idea. Suppose the best thing to do is to give it a run :P

Very practical thinking, pal :) However, those who really do spam I doubt actually read the stickies.