So what is this thread about? How we hate people who don't know as much as us? Yeah, I think posts asking where the battery on an n800 is tend to be a little irratating but people who just shout SEARCH anytime someone asks a question is are quite a bit more irratating.
Thank you Chemist.
Take a look, you see what this thread is talking about at the end? It would be hard to find something over here if this thread would be like 2000 posts.
That's what i meant.
but this is what I expected and actualy wanted to happen, a discussion about the search function.
it shows that most of the complaints are a general problem of the site, like the community pages arent usable or realy slow due to server issues (they will be solved..),
As one who is a master of search, let me say that Maemo's Talk forums stink when it comes to finding an answer.
My first experience was trying to find out whether I should, as a normal practice, switch off my N810 at night or just let it go into standby and, if the former, was there any difference between using the menu to switch it off versus using the power button. Searching for 'switch off power' returns 42 threads with up to 272 posts in each for an answer which could (should?) be answered in a single sentence.
Another problem is the idea of a single thread to cover a general topic. For development, this works fine. The thread becomes a collaborative tool. But for a user with a question it becomes a nightmare. I am interested in Tear but the 0.3 release thread contains 1037 posts with the 0.3.1 thread adding 975 more. Is it any wonder that people start threads with specific questions?
Another n00b's thread title summed it up:"Tear install - Newbie is so confused. Which thread to use? "
I think Reggie ought to make Results By Post the default. Or the option should show up more prominently, like when you use the big Search Box in the top right, it could have the options right there.
Most of the threads coming up on repeat are fairly basic (they're newbies who haven't settled in yet). And we have a team of people wearing this 'greeter' sig, some of whom are also not actually very technical. I actually answered one of those threads yesterday - it was exactly the same as two identical topics on the same forum page. I just welcomed the poster, and offered him links to where discussion was already going on.
So if you see someone posting something basic that's already answered, just ignore it. Hopefully one of the greeters will get there - and be able to respond cheerfully however many times the question has been asked. It's part of what we're here for.
BTW, It's incredible, I have about 40000 messages on different forums, part of them are English only ones, and You are the only native English speaking user that noticed this.
(OTOH, I almost always use the custom Google search of maemo.org.)