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Originally Posted by Katie_UPS
I'm a n00b too.
Why is it so bad to bring back an old thread?
I understand repetitive questions, but what if was just an awesome thread...
and whats proper ettiquette for asking "can you please resay that in words that an educated-student-with-little-to-none-tech-terms-knowledge-but-still-knows-robots can understand"?
(sorry about the long hyphenated phrase.
its hard to sum it into a few terms)
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Reviving old threads can often be quite confusing. Here's an example:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=57061
This thread was started last year. If someone sees this thread on the Portal or the top of the forum they will likely click on it and begin reading without checking the thread date. The part about San Diego is not true for this year and all the links in the first post are to Rack and Roll matches.
With regards to your second question it is easiest for someone to elaborate if you can be as specific as possible about what you don't understand (terms, concepts or whatever). Sometimes this is not possible and people will still try to help in that case but it is more difficult.