Multiple Thread Posting / Bumping

[rcarring]

This may have been asked before...

What is the rule regarding posting the same question more than once in the same forum, because the original post slipped overnight to page 10 and the poster is under the belief that nobody will ever read it / respond to it and so they post the same question again, so it appears on the first page.

Second, I see people bumping their threads on occasion, and I feel that this method if used carefully is better than reposting a new thread.

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Just a comment for redesign : could we not use more pages or white space to separate all the different forums? The front page is very busy, and while I'm used to it, a newbie may find it all quite daunting.

[meng]

I couldn't find that it was explicitly against the rules to do these, and it doesn't seem to be discouraged here as much as it is over at linuxquestions.org. But it's a rather annoying practice, and shows that the poster either has not read or has ignored the posting guidelines.

Even so, you know what they say about squeaky wheels ...

[rcarring]

Sometimes I'll be reading a post about a problem, and remember that more or less the same problem has been reported before, even remembering the bug that is associated with it.

I think if more than ten new threads appear on the same topic (e.g. wifi breaks) then a sticky could be made, and everyone post in the discussion thread tied to the sticky.

Of course, you can't force people not to multiple post the same question in the same forum, and its refreshing that we don't punish people for doing so. Although crossposting is frowned upon.