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Originally Posted by findtom
Two things I hate on forums:
1- People that bitch about people posting stuff that could be found in the manual: The title says it all, if you don't like the question don't click the thread. Pretty much any question about the car can be answered somewhere, if not that manual then on BMW's website or Google.
2- People that bitch about reposts: Not everyone is here to read every thread that exists 24/7, and there are new members joining all the time that might like to participate in new discussions rather than search and read threads from 6 months ago. Forums are supposed to be interactive. I understand posting a question that has been beaten to death, or starting a new thread instead of finding a pre-existing one to add to... but come on.
Anyway, if you eliminated all the topics in this thread there would be no posts on this board.
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Excellent points. And that's why we don't make it a policy of locking any thread asking a question that has been asked before or can be found in the manual.
Sure it's courtesy to use the search function and the manual is an obvious choice to go to for many questions, but sometimes people simply forget to search or can't find the answer readily in a search (i.e. too common a search term) or can get an answer here faster than they can flipping through the manual.
That said, there are some threads mentioned above that are definitely silly though
