it's not about that. it's that people who don't really know the particulars of knowledge parrot things, and this messageboard turns into a game of telephone. honestly, a great way to be helpful is to be quiet and let people with more experience and knowledge than "i read it in a thread a couple months ago" respond.

especially when it comes to "repetitive posts" - people pop on here for the first time and ask a question and are bombarded by "wittiness." it's not their fault that other people have asked the same question, but every time CleverInternetBiker posts a clever response, it's CleverInternetBiker's fault that anybody trying to actually search the forums runs into an extremely low signal-to-noise ratio. Searching is frequently futile, just wading through the muck.