Originally Posted by Ranger
The thing that really mystifies me is people that get irritated with repeat questions. That does torque me off. People that get irritated with that and create things like the sticky $500 Mountain Bike thread, must think the forums are just designed for their happiness. I don't care if i read 1000 questions of people wanting to know what $500 mountain bike to buy. I don't have to read the post. I think having a sticky is a fine idea except it doesn't actually work.
That $500 MTB sticky has just about every topic in the world discussed and certainly isn't a very good tool for a noob looking for buying advice. There is much, much, gleening to be done to pull anything useful out of that thread.
I disagree completely. since that particular sticky we have had a LOT of reduced repeat questions on the subject of 500$ bikes. We have also had newbs come in and thank us for having that sticky in place as it helped htem get 3 or 4 bikes to choose from which they then asked questions about. That sticky has been a time saver for them and us in that forum. Before that thread was made it was a daily occurance to have 2 and 3 questions about the same 3 bikes in the 500$ range. Thats has almost completely stopped. It did its job imo. Even though, you are correct, it is a pain to work through.