to think you just can't win?

[Goodynuff]

This is sort of a post about a thread....
I have noticed that people on here seem to get all het up when an OP posts something that was in a previous thread (from a week, or a month ago, whenever) and do not want repeat threads. There is a strong chorus of "Didn't we do this thread already?"
At the same time, it seems to be seen as wrong to post on a dead thread, reactivating it.
So, what is an OP meant to do?

I saw someone saying that on the 'God bothering' thread earlier, and perhaps because some people found it offensive the OPs overkilled a phrase people remember.

But I don't get it either, most people aren't on here 24 hrs and you can't remember (or want to) all the threads, plus there are some 'old faves' that I haven't been on that I wouldn't mind a posting on to get my twopenneth in.

They disappear after 90 days in chat, but I like it that some things keep coming up normally with a different take on each one.

I suspect it's more to do with some people just being anal about rules like telling other posters off though

am relatively new here but i think that some people like to bash it home that they have 'been here' a long time and yawn yawn somebody new is bringing up something that may have been mentioned before. or perhaps it's genuine and people suspect 'trolling'. IMO i find it rude. if i wanted to post about something i wanted help or advice for i wouldn't like to think i would be expected to trawl through page after page to check it hadn't been done before. If a person doesn't want to respond then they don't have to. Simples.

I don't think you can search for stuff anyway, it's all 'I'm really furious with DH because...' as a title, or 'I know IABU, but need to vent'.

So looking up 'secret Fruitshoot addiction' isn't going to get you the help/advice you need for such a horriible problem.

omg you have a secret fruitshoot addiction? well why didnt you just SAY so i like to add a splash of vodka to mine. saves a fortune in the harvester

Bollocks.

I didn't mean for it to come out like that.

I'm going to regret posting that in the morning.

well im sorry but this is what happens when you allow the fruitshoot to take over your life. you had a sausage roll today as well didn't you. DIDNT YOU.

wouldn't surprise me AT ALL if a gingerbread PERSON featured in your day also [shake of head in pure disgust emoticon]

I enjoy tescos hot sausage rolls

It's not right is is?

I'm sorry I judged your roots now I know how it feels to be scorned

i suggest you THINK ON. tesco sausage rolls indeed. if i was you i would be in the kitchen right the eff now preparing something made from lentils or beans or armpit hair or all three, bound together with breast milk. get right on that. while i contemplate the time and think i may as well have the fourth

oops that's the whole bottle. should I call SS/AA or will you?

I know, I really should get off, the threads I'm on are all jumbling into one big cat shitty-snaily-hairy thread

Thank you for the responses
I am glad that I am not the only one to notice. I haven't been hoolered at for doing it yet, but I'm still new here, and there is plenty of time

Would it be ok if I played my banjo on your thread? (twang)

I do think some people moan to assert their longevity here, but I think people also complain about repetition because ALL the threads, even without repetition are so boring a lot of the time. Especially the really long ones - 100s of people repeating what the last one said, or too many pages long for you to bother to read it all. Boring, boring and boring.