Recently, instances of old jokes reposting has increased. Noone reposts a joke intentionally.
Most of us post jokes from different sources from the internet and from forwarded mails. Its not always possible to search whether a joke has been posted earlier or not. The search function of Vbulletin isnt that good. Also, the fact that different people give different titles to a joke, makes it even more difficult to find a joke. Probably I have been the one who posts maximum duplicate jokes.
I will do it myself from now on and also suggest members to search for jokes on the forum before posting in the following way: Copy a long sentence or para from the joke and search it on google with site:indiabroadband.net prefixed to it. This gives good results. No point in searching with Jokes titles coz different people use different titles for a joke.
Ex: Suppose i want to post this joke:
http://www.indiabroadband.net/jokes-...etter-god.html
I will Select a long line/para from the joke: "A little boy wanted Rs.50 very badly and prayed for weeks, but nothing happened.Finally he decided to write God a letter requesting the Rs.50."
Now I will prefix "site:indiabroadband.net" to it and search on google.
So the final search string becomes
site:indiabroadband.net A little boy wanted Rs.50 very badly and prayed for weeks, but nothing happened.Finally he decided to write God a letter requesting the Rs.50.
If this joke is already posted in the forum, it will be found by google. Results of only IBF will be shown.
See what result the above search yielded: aa.jpg
I hope this will reduce the number of reposts.
I request mods to make this thread
sticky.