I am a member of more than one forum. I know a handful of you are also on other forums. I am wondering if there is already an unwritten law about posting the same question in multiple forums. I personally have encountered a situation a couple of times in the past where I went to a lot of effort to answer a question, only to find that it had already been answered (on another forum). This left a bad taste in my mouth about answering questions from people I know to be multi-forum posters. I have been on the other side of the issue as well; I have asked the same question on multiple forums and gotten the same answers. The reasons for posting in multiple forums would be to possibly get an answer faster, possibly to get a different answer (or the same answer worded a different way) and make a comparison, or to ask a question hoping to get a response from a specific person(s) on either or all forums.
As I said, I have found that I am less inclined to answer a question from someone I know to be a multi-forum poster because the chances that it is already answered are high, and without reading through the whole post on one site and then going to another site, searching out the duplicate and reading through probably very similar replies to see if it's been sufficiently answered, I am reluctant to answer. it is more likely that I will bypass that specific thread. I have to force myself out of this line of thinking. I don't want myself to be labeled as a multi-forum poster and experience the same sort of discrimination(?) that I subconsciously exhibit myself, so I rarely post the exact same question on multiple forums. In the event that I were to do so, and I had my question answered on one forum, I would let people know in the other forum that the question is already answered so they don't waste their time. I think this is good practice for anybody who is multiple forums. What do you think?
P.S. While I don't often post the exact same question on multiple forums, I do for example in the scope of one project, possibly have more than one thread open (even within one forum) on very closely related topics of which the lines sometimes cross. I don't realy see a way around that.
As I said, I have found that I am less inclined to answer a question from someone I know to be a multi-forum poster because the chances that it is already answered are high, and without reading through the whole post on one site and then going to another site, searching out the duplicate and reading through probably very similar replies to see if it's been sufficiently answered, I am reluctant to answer. it is more likely that I will bypass that specific thread. I have to force myself out of this line of thinking. I don't want myself to be labeled as a multi-forum poster and experience the same sort of discrimination(?) that I subconsciously exhibit myself, so I rarely post the exact same question on multiple forums. In the event that I were to do so, and I had my question answered on one forum, I would let people know in the other forum that the question is already answered so they don't waste their time. I think this is good practice for anybody who is multiple forums. What do you think?
P.S. While I don't often post the exact same question on multiple forums, I do for example in the scope of one project, possibly have more than one thread open (even within one forum) on very closely related topics of which the lines sometimes cross. I don't realy see a way around that.