[Pat Fairbank]

I just had an idea for a feature that might help cut out on the posting of already-asked questions...

What if, whenever a user clicks the button to post a new thread after having created it, a screen were to pop up containing a list of recent similar threads, based on the content of what was about to be posted? Then, if none of the listed threads contained the desired information, the poster would click another button to post for real. This could probably be implemented really easily by borrowing the code that displays "Similar Threads" at the bottom of every page of a thread.