Originally Posted by
stargold
The fact that no-one's forcing anyone to read or post to threads notwithstanding, I guess I see it as duplication of people's time and effort when the same question gets asked regularly, with a range of similar answers and line of arguments each time, not to mention cluttering up the board if it happens to a number of regular topics.
But as you say, just as easy to avoid.
Theres a thread for this discussion too
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...ve-topics.html
Realistically, you can't stop someone from starting a new thread when they don't bother using a simple search. I think the mods do a decent job at merging threads generally without wasting too much time and effort on their part.