Thread: VLC for the N800?
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fanoush is offline fanoush
2007-05-28 , 14:40
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#8
Originally Posted by geneven View Post
I disagree with the prevailing consensus that people should be made to quake in fear before posting questions.
Agreed.

Originally Posted by geneven View Post
I think that repeat questions are ok, but I think that those who object to them should feel free not to respond.
There is one big disadvantage. Repeated questions (and answers) make searching for the answer much harder. Which thread would you read if search gives you 10 similar topics? Will you read all of them? Will you be happy if each of them contains different partial info and most of them just suggestion to do a search or pointers to different topics? Will you give up and create 11th similar thread apologizing that you cannot find the information and ask same question again? I think this is scenario is very likely.

So this is about maintaining order and reducing noise to minimum. Newbies are the ones who will profit from this most of all.

Just tried to enter VLC into search box and there is couple of threads asking same question.