I know, it's not a problem specific to this forum - they all suffer from it to some degree. Even if there is a link to a FAQ at the top of every thread people will ask rather than read it when they first start using any help forum.

You can't really delete duplicate threads, at least not until they get old, or you just get posts asking "Why was my post deleted?"

Flagging these files so they don't show up in a search would sure help the ones that do try and look.

A broken link checker would be kind of handy too, I noticed a couple of posts had them.

Oh, and if you can get it to serve hot coffee regularly, that would be best of all.