OK not that I am defending anyone, I hate repeated threads as much as the next guy. But I have to play "devil's advocate". Do you honestly think every noobie or whomever that joins here and starts to post are gonna read EVERY single reply/post...the ones you mentioned above have (222, 405, & 157 posts within) respectively?? If you wanna talk about the Forum rules & regs...about keeping an eye on the pinned topics...that's a different story. Even so, for instance, if I wanted to talk about something specific about a character relationship...am I expected to sift through over 9,022 posts on the Official Character Relationship Discussion Topic 2? While it may be expected of me...it is not a reasonable number.
It's no wonder repeated posts are popping up all the time. Putting aside the ones that are posted JUST to get a rise out of people like you. I can understand not wanting to filter through over 400 posts just to see if something was answered/discussed around #357. To just throw a number out there.
From 2 of the titles you mentioned above (the "official" ones)...outside of pertaining to a specific episode, how is anyone suppossed to understand that a discussion about the Kyoshi Warriors is within? Let alone have a specific topic within? I will grant the first one you mentioned...is very obvious...yet you do understand that there are, as of today, 111 pages of threads...and I cannot find the one that is obvious...and I purposefully looked for it. On any one of them can be a discussion that I want to post. I do not expect every person to read every thread on every page, just to make sure that something hasn't been repeated. (This throws out the posters doing this on purpose).
It would be nice if people did this, but it is unreasonable right now to expect it. There are just too many threads. Which in effect cycles the problem. If it's allowable...the duplicated threads should be deleted. If it's not possible, what's the point? Your gonna get new posters all the time...with the same questions and discussions. If they have to go through every thread and every post...they are not going to be able to post anything. Because with 111 pages of threads already...it's obvious that nearly every topic has already been discussed at least once. NTM, with the new episdoes...your gonna get different posters with the same questions posting at the same time generally.
As I said originally, I'm playing devil's advocate. I agree with you that the duplicated threads needs to be addressed. But sifting through mountains of posts to try and find what you want to post...has already past the unreasonable point.?? This needs to be address in a new reasonable way.