to ask if we NEED multiple threads?

I'm a great checker Grace. In fact I check so much I don't ever seem to initiate a thread - (possibly too scared)
BTW hope Grace is feeling better after her visit to theyou-know-what?

YANBU, but the search function on here is CRAP, so I think people can be forgiven for not finding old threads, at least. That doesn't really cover the Thatcher ones, which are all new, but there's no way of knowing how people 'enter' the site. You'd have to come in via Active to see what was already there and possibly many people don't do that.

I think we just have to lump it, graces

Is there another way on site apart from Active, then? That's what I get first.

Of course! You could go gransnet.com–forums–chooseaforumatrandom

for instance.

I nearly always just go straight to active too, but I don't suppose everyone does.

And the search wotsit is still crap.

When I have a complaint from HQ about starting unnecessary threads, then I will not start any more.

I have 'Active' saved on my Favourites and that's how I always come in.
No messing!

That'll be the day!

Can't see the problem really . What difference does it make if there is plenty going on on each of the threads who cares if there's 10 of them?

Me too Ana....twins

Ella!

People may be new to Gransnet so may want to comment on an issue that's been discussed before.

If people aren't interested they can just ignore the thread.

Couldn't care less. It doesn't happen that many times anyway.

So anything that has been said/contributed the last time round can just be written off as irrelevant? If people want to comment on an issue that has been discussed before wouldn;t you want to know what has been said?

You might. But, as I said, it can be nigh on impossible to find anything. Or you might just want to say it all again. Or you might want to be deliberately provocative. Or you might have absolutely no idea (because if you're new why would you think of searching for a previous thread anyway?) that it had been said before.

And so on.

I have sometimes searched for a thread that I know exists but have given up because I can't find it and started another. If you can't remember the thread title or which forum it was on, you're stuffed.

I wonder how many threads there have been already?

Sometimes people just, in that moment, need to write something and if it creates a duplicate of something else, it really doesn't matter. Freedom and welcome is what Gransnet is all about and long may it continue.

Good post Nanban. Sometimes you just need to let off steam. Or make a protest.

GN is good for that.

Ana, Ella triplets

kitty