Here are the things that are considered bad posts:
- Reasking a topic that has a thread title related to the topic (like starting another "Who starts at corner" thread)
- Asking a question that can be found with a reasonable amount of research (ie "Beanie" explanation)
- A discussion about recruit A in recruit B's thread... this will force the mod to move those posts over to the recruit A thread... plus once recruiting picks up again unnecessary posts are frowned upon because it causes all of us to click on the thread only to read something not related to recruit B at all.
Thee are many other rules, and they are contained in the forum posting rules and the recruiting posting rules (such as not bashing a recruit).
However, I am going to break the rule and respond to this, because I know the mods have slightly less to do during this downtime and can afford to split this into a separate topic... and there seems to be a number of newer posters with harsh attitudes towards bp at the moment...
Dejavu, the only ass scorchings I can find in your posts:
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Being told not to ask a question about Pittman not related to Wells' in Wells' thread
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Guy responding sarcastically with a joke that he thought the t-shirt was the clincher for wells (note: same person "scorching" you)
The overall point is that there are some people that are going to overreact at times, but there are plenty of ways to avoid that. As I explained earlier, my response was predicated by the fact that I found the info by searching only 3 pages... Obviously there is no magic number for how far you should search, but 3 pages does not seem like too many to peruse.
There also is a learning curve when you join this site. Regardless of your sarcastic question, Dejavu, we do encourage new members and when they step out of line with a post we confront them once and then are over it if they learn (I was in this posters shoes when I joined). There is a higher expectation for posters on this site than BN where people are free to badmouth recruits, insiders (ie HelpingHand), etc. Self-policing by mods as well as regular users is how we avoid having tons of repeated questions in threads.