The search engine here is tough for sure but It is difficult for data to self align to a specific topic. I try to get our office to have the subject line a bit more decretive to the job or task. That way when I get lazy and don't enter my email data every day I can search for it without having to make a call the office staff to help me find a particular email subject. But I could spend a little more time doing my job then here on Pinside throughout the day.

The difficulty comes with people who have just come into the hobby, it is fresh, it is exciting, they want to talk pinball, pinball, pinball, and they think that their questions ARE fresh and new
Me, I am old, been at this for longer than most. But I want to encourage newbies, I want them to be exited about their game, even if it is a HardBody with only half of the lamps working. If they post a question that has been asked a hundred times before, as long as they are engaging with the question, then what is the harm?

Plus 1 to the above post. Let people ask, if it bothers you move along (no ill intent) (no insult intended).

I think a better way to alleviate that is punish the people that are jumping on people for bringing up popular subjects again. If they have been here long enough to know it’s a tired, old thread they know they can stfu and Pinside will continue with fewer negative comments.

Pinside does not have a good search engine. Sometimes you just have to ask instead of wasting time and not finding the answer you're looking for.

I think maybe some newbies don't get know about Pinwiki and various other repair guides or maybe find them daunting when they are just trying to figure out why a bulb isn't working.

I doubt it would change anything.

Everybody who has ever started a price bubble thread SWEARS they have some brilliant new angle and aren't actually starting yet another price bubble thread.

"No, I'm actually doing a thread about how current pork belly prices affects the pinball market. It's completely different! Just like my Beanie Babies are Just Like Pinball thread from last week."

Has the bubble burst yet? Hahaha

Let people start new threads. Who gives a shit?

I don't understand why people maker it their mission to link similar threads when a new threads pops up, like they're trying to teach the OP a lesson or shame them lol.

Yeah I saw thelaw link to a thread recently that was 11 years old lol!! Dude why do you care if someone wants to start a new thread on a question that was asked a decade ago? That's a much better route than bumping a thread that died years ago. More than likely every question that could be asked related to pinball has been asked here in some way over the many years this site has existed.

If it bothers you sooo much just don't click on it