IslandTractor
Super Star Member
- Joined
- Sep 15, 2005
- Messages
- 17,101
- Location
- Prudence Island, RI
- Tractor
- 2007 Kioti DK40se HST, Woods BH
With all due respect - Why do people answer question with GO SEARCH? It's amazing that you can type an epistle on where to search how to search WHY to search yet you won't answer the OP question which takes LESS TIME - LESS WRITING.
Furthermore, with new models, new technology coming out DAILY, any search is rendered USELESS along with advice to GO SEARCH.
Telling any person to GO SEARCH is doing this site an injustice.
When a person asks a question here that person wants the LATEST and greatest info. A search will drudge up records from 2001. Who has the time to slog through this type of search?
Telling a person to SEARCH is not helping anyone. Seeking FRESH info might bring the answer " I just read five minutes ago that brand X is coming out with this and that next week. See you won't get that from a search....AND if you did it would take you quite a while to find that in a 25,000 thread search.
So how about we all, just answer the question and ASSUME the person asking has already done a search, it's a much faster answer to anyone who asks a question, AND it's much more informative to all the readers of that thread.
I have to respectfully disagree. There are quite a few posts asking basic questions that could easily be answered by simply reading prior threads. Of course there still may be questions that follow such research and those deserve fresh answers. However, just repeating ourselves here by rehashing old recommendations or issues doesn't keep the forum fresh. How many times do we need to start from scratch answering questions like "what size tractor do I need?" or "are turf tires better than Ags? or "which tractors are made in the USA?" or "should I use synthetic oil?".
Everyone these days knows how to search and presumably they found TBN through some sort of search engine. I would agree that for someone first accessing this site the menu to start a search may not be obvious as it could be but it is still pretty convenient once you take the time to look for it. I recall the habit of one of my old teachers who would happily engage in a discussion but would not answer a simple question he thought you could have figured out for yourself with a bit of research.