Bad Policy Regarding Duplicate Topics

[verymuchmeg]

So, if I want to post a review of a book, I go to the forum where it would be appropriately filed and do a topic search. If nothing comes up, I can make my new topic and post in that forum. If something comes up, I should go to the already extant topic on the same book and post my review as part of that thread. This part make sense.

The part that doesn't make sense is where I'm somehow supposed to magically know if someone who came before me didn't bother to check what category the book should actually go in. That person has already posted on the same topic in an incorrect forum, and it didn't come up in my topic search because I was in the forum where said book actually goes in the first place. Then, my topic is marked as a duplicate. Nobody can respond to it. ...and my only option is to move my review to the wrong forum because that's what the first person did? That makes absolutely no sense at all!

This policy should be fixed. It causes problems for book reviewers who actually have a clue as to what genre their book belongs in, and also for readers, who might be searching for book reviews by genre only to miss one because it is misfiled and all correct instances of genre-specific filing have been suppressed.

[gali]

The search button on the Home Page covers the entire site. All you need to do is to use the Search button on the Home Page.

If the topic is on the wrong forum, notify one of the mods and they will move it to the right forum.