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49kat, I don't mean to seem like I am picking on you--I definitely am not. I have been thinking about this a lot, and this is where I decided to write about it.

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I really was hoping not to start a series of the sky is falling posts with what I wrote (where everyone tells or retells all of their awful support stories) but rather to provide substantive information about a reliable way to get support.

I am amazed at how many times people tell the same story or versions of the same story hopping from one post to another, not adding useful information or solutions, but just doing what I call The Chicken Little.

In fact, it seems to me, that often real and useful information is buried deep as the threads get longer and longer without anything of substance being added. Then, of course, new folks to the board have to ask the question again because the threads that seem like they might be useful have 60 posts in them and it is just too exhausting to read through them.

I love MR, and if you look at my post count, you will see that in 18 months I have posted over 2200 times. I'm here a lot and I am even off topic occasionally, but I don't post the same thing over and over again in multiple threads and I don't post doomsday speculation. Heck, it's exhausting just to read this kind of posting.

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