Obviously now, most of the threads that are started now are duplicate, and understandable if they are closed.

But can the duplicate thread be linked to the closed thread. The search doesnt always work that well for some of us, and all we gat is 'No topics or posts met your search criteria'. Although its probably better then it was when it

Its not good when you want to reply to a post and cant.

I agree with you there jegs, I have a lot of trouble trying to find the threads I want.....even when I can remember there is one. I noticed handsel and LV are pretty good at weeding them out
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You're right, Jeggs, about the searching not working too well and it's not easy. There's a lot of things you can't do, that would make it quicker and easier to use. I'm sure they could get some Google-type of searching instead, which would allow you to be more accurate in the results.
You can't search on posts by people who have closed their profile, for example, and I think that's one thing that could be remedied fairly easily - since, although the profile name has gone, and become anonymous, the name is in the database and linked to all the posts the person made.

How would you see the threads being linked and how would that help?
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Just have to search deep, it is possible but most are too lazy to look

I think the search function is terrible on this forum. With that in mind, topics that are quite old (not posted in for 3 months or more, unless is is a very large thread) should be left to die and if a new topic is started along the same lines, then we should welcome the new input to the forum, instead of cutting it dead.
That is just my opinion though.

Yep the search on here does leave a lot to be desired, at least all the pages in the sections of the forum are now accessible. Google can be more use than the search here if you add site:http://www.flirtbox.net/ to your google search.

Scottie's way of thinking on this has quite a lot of merit.

I think the really old threads would be better of being culled, especially the ones that were instantly locked over 3 years ago.

To further that, is there not a "merge" option? It's pretty common place on discussion boards. It would also help when people hit the wrong button and start a new topic, rather than replying.
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Old content can be just as useful in the 'here and now'
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When Toby revamps this site hopefully we will have better options, till then you will have to cope with what there is here.