I think you'll find its because we are getting more and more people signing up so the same questions will keep coming up. Its a lot friendlier to post whats on your mind and get a response even if we've covered it before than just referring someone to the search function. If you can find a link to a previous thread then posting it and letting them peruse that may help. Like any forum the same topics will come up again and again as there isn't an endless variety of things golf related (balls, clubs, courses, rules) that won't have been discussed in one shape or form before
Being new, think I'm one of the guilty ones here! Have now done a search and found the info I was looking for on another thread. It was a good point, which I hadn't even thought about.
Don't be afraid to ask though. If we've covered it to death before some helpful soul will normally post a link otherwise we'll try and answer any questions or discuss any points you have. When threads get revisited they tend to go off on different tangents anyway so never end up the same ad verbatum
Mansell, after the first couple of dup's you learn to overlook the topics that have been mentioned recently. I will however take a peek incase there is a bit of advice I could use.