It's as much about a poster wanting to know their comments are read, as it is about searching. The poster feels adding a comment to a thread that already has 30 posts isn't going to have the same impact as starting a new thread.
Message boards have been around a while now. This issue isn't specific to Vol Nation. And it probably isn't going to go away.
Just sayin'.
Strange. When I typed in "Kiffin class" the original thread showed up as the 11th entry.
My bad volmanbill;
I prematurely ended my search after reading only a dozen or so pages contained in the top 5. A more dilligent investigative search, combined with attention to detail, (I typed in "Kiffin and class,") may have averted this entire tragic episode. Forty lashes with a wet noodle to me, and the author...OFF WITH HIS HEAD!!!:bad: