Topic: Great Reggie interview, clearing up a lot on Revolution and GameBoy Next

[Gamebasher]

Yes, I just have time to put this hot link on the PGC Forums. I really haven´t seen anything like this interview before, so I figured you hadn´t either!

Go figure, for it does clear up a lot about the coming E3 show, and how much they will reveal!

Reggie speaks - again!

(If this doesn´t work, try this instead:  http://www.n-sider.com/newsview.php?type=day&date=2005-03-10#805)  

[Ms.Pikmin]

This was covered almost two months ago.  WTF

http://www.planetgamecube.com/forums/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=11901

[Gamebasher]

I just fail completely at understanding how I am supposed to know if it was covered that long ago. I have the list of all the topics now finally, but the titles of those topics do not necessarily tell me if such is already in there, does it? What to do then? Search through ALL the topics, and read through everything in each of them in order to find out if my topic is already discussed? Seems like to much to ask. Will of course try anyhow to look through the topics and see what was discussed. Hard work.  

[Mario]

Do you even read the forum at all?

[RABicle]

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I really haven´t seen anything like this interview before, so I figured you hadn´t either!

Actually we have.

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I just fail completely at understanding how I am supposed to know if it was covered that long ago.

The hint is the huge bold that n-sider include on that page which reads "News Archives - March 10, 2005"  

[Gamebasher]

I do read the Forum, Mario, but I don´t read everything. I don´t have that much time! Perhaps some people expect that I should, in order to know everything being discussed in there, but that is too much to ask. There will always be a lot of people who don´t have time to read everything. I do read the headlines of the Forum, before I enter a new topic and look a little on the replies to same, but since I don´t have my own computer or internet connection, I rely on public computers and where it is easiest to go they only allow people to use any of them for an hour. That is far too little time to go through the topics in a specific area of the Forum.

I do find time now and then, to go to another place where I can sit for several hours, but then there is already so many topics which has been previously entered that it is hopeless to look through all of them and find out if in any specific place there is the exact thing I want to discuss. So I wind up entering a topic which has been discussed already. Problematic to some of you, but impossible for me to really do that much about.

Still, I want to remark that I simply don´t believe that everybody in the PGC Forums get annoyed over a topicical content being there twice. I have seen members responding favourably to some of my topics which were scoffed at by others.

[ruby_onix]

PGC has historically had strict rules about not creating a lot of duplicate threads. It splits up the potential discussion base, making the discussions less worthwhile.

When somebody breaks a rule (even accidentally) it rubs some people the wrong way, sometimes even/especially when they don't agree with it. They're often tired of following that rule, and don't like seeing other get away with breaking it (I'm not saying that's happening here, it's just a common internet observation).

The best advice is to look at how old a story is. If it's brand-new, breifly skim the topics of the first page (maybe two) in any relevant forum before posting. It may have just been posted.

If it's older, you can't reasonably check the entire forum. So you should usually take a "Hey, did you guys hear about this? It's new to me." attuitude. If people already talked about it, they should help you find the old thread, so you can read about it yourself, and maybe re-spark some activity in it.

[Gamebasher]

OK, thanks!

Dates of topics it is!