Having deja vu visiting forums...

[Stewart Vernon]

Ok, not bashing anyone or any site here... but am I the only one who gets major deja vu if I visit this site and then Satellite Guys and see the EXACT same posts?

I mean, the exact same subject line... and exact same content... sometimes there are a few responses that are identical too!

Again, not bashing either site... but am curious as to why people who appear to visit both forums regularly would post exactly the same messages at both places?

There are a lot of us who visit both places I'm sure... and I find myself ignoring threads on the other site if I've already read them here and recognize the start of the thread as being the same. I'm betting others do it too.

I understand seeking help/asking questions in more than one place... but maybe asking it similarly but different and not cut/paste exact conversations might be more productive for everyone?

Moderators feel free to move this if it doesn't belong here. I read the Dish forums most often, so that's where I am smacked with the deja vu most of the time so I thought I'd start here and see.

Not a complaint, just a curiosity!

[Mike D-CO5]

Are you sure it's deja vu or is it in your head?

Are you sure it's deja vu or is it in your head?



Sorry I couldn't resist.

[mwgiii]

I have cross posted on both sites.

The reason I did it is because there are a few knowledgeable posters who refuse to leave the site they post on. So if I have a problem, cross posting makes sure those people might see it and be able to help.

[socceteer]

I can see how some people would post on two different forums, I do not follow the Satelite Guys forum.

[AcuraCL]

If you ever visit AVS, you get to see the posts a third time too.

Is that deja vuvu? deja vu^3? deja moo (how many times do we have to read the same bull?) ;)

[Stewart Vernon]

Cross-posting is cool... and I understand that... especially for seeking a different audience.

I was just thinking if other people do what I do, and ignore threads that seem to be duplicates... then the unique posts within the thread may get ignored by some of us, and we all may miss out on something.

Again, not a complaint, but an observation.

I haven't visited the sister-site AVS as much, but I bet you're right that some messages show up there for a 3rd time.

I see this a lot on usenet, and I know I ignore cross-posted duplicates because I set my newsreader to do just that! Which is why I figure there are folks missing out on possible help by creating identical posts that make the threads look identical.

My tendency is to follow the thread I see first... so if I see it here first, I ignore it there... if I see it there first, I ignore it here. Just human nature.

[Kricket]

i dont see any problem with it at all - like you said - different audiences - if you feel happy with the language that you use in one forum, whats the point in changing it?

if the answer to that question is to appease those people that may read the same thread in both places and become bored with them then its a non-issue - those arent the people the op is trying to reach anyway - he/she is trying to reach the people that havent read the post in another forum - hence - if one post is done in the most succinct fashion, then it would be a disservice to change the language around (to both the op and the readers)

[Ron Barry]

Nothing wrong with cross posting on different sites. Just don't do it in different forums here. Makes work for us since we have to delete one or more of them. Definitely there is a lot of users that go to all three sites mentioned about and I am sure most people figure the more eyes that see there question the better.

Yep... if you do visit all three sites a lot.. deja vu will definitely sneak up to bite you.

[rocatman]

I use to post much of my FCC findings on both major forums but it did not appear that there was much interest in what I was posting based on the replies posted on the other site. So I have for the most part discontinued posting FCC findings on the other site. I find that there are better, more intelligent discussions on this forum related to what I am interested in although I do surf the other site as well. I have seen others post a link on the other forum of my postings here and I don't have a problem with that and will even reply to questions.

[Stewart Vernon]

I think the situation that most concerns me... and concern is too strong a word really...

is I know some people only come here and some people only go there. So if someone starts a copy/paste identical thread here and there... then those of us common to both forums will see it, and will likely reply to one and not the other.

Then if someone who is unique to one forum posts, and that isn't the thread I'm following, then that branch of the discussion is unique but buried in what on the surface looks like a common thread.

Not really a gripe, concern, or something I lose sleep about... but sometimes I do wonder "what if" someone posts something unique in a thread I've been ignoring that is really good information.


Oh well, as "beefs" and "complaints" go, this is low on the list... but at least I know I'm not the only one having deja vu!

:)