Pointing someone gently to a thread is fine. I've seen that done well. Esty is good at it. However, I've also seen less gentle measures used, often by the "older" members, and that saddens me. If I was posting in a forum and my post was followed by, "Use the search engine, that's what it's for", I'd be done in that forum.
I am always happy to see such posts and comments as, "I was a Legoluster when I joined here, but that was a year ago, and I am so very different now; I hardly recognize my old posts..." To me personally, that means the Barrow Downs is worth the time I put into it.
An air of elitism-- real or perceived-- does not expedite that process. The books forum has an embarassment of riches to offer, but if it is deemed unaccessable to the "uninitiated" by those same "uninitiated", those riches lie in the dust waiting to see the light of day. I would that it were not so...
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...down to the water to see the elves dance and sing upon the midsummer's eve.
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