Multiple problems after o2 sensor short circuit

Please do not post in this duplicate thread created by the OP. I will ask a moderator to delete this thread.

 

A forum moderator will decide if this duplicate thread should be deleted, not me.

Duplicate threads do not create more exposure. For those who decide to help, it is much better to have one thread with all the information included rather than multiple threads with a little bit of information in each thread. Duplicate threads create a lot of confusion for those who are helping to troubleshooting a problem.

Based on your response to my post, people many decide not to help you because of your attitude.



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Yeah, Brian was being helpful, because the thing that ends up happening otherwise with duplicate threads is not that your problem gets solved faster, but that the snippets of discussion that could lead to solving your problem get scattered around several different threads and nobody sees them all, and whoever tries to chime in and contribute doesn't know if what they're about to add has been already said, or already ruled out, in one of the other duplicate threads—unless they try hard to find and read all the duplicate threads first before responding, which is a lot of extra work to be asking of people trying to help you.

Eventually what happens is somebody has to ping the mod to come and try to organize the mess—and I think there's only one mod at the moment, who has plenty of other things to do—and try to figure out which of the duplicate threads can be deleted, and which ones got useful replies and ought to be merged together so the useful stuff isn't lost. And the merging kinda helps, but then there's one thread with all different people's replies glommed together in strict order by posting time, which can split up posts that followed each other in any of the original threads.

That's why you usually get to a solution faster with one thread where you set out the details and all of the discussion to find your solution stays together and makes sense, and the people trying to help you aren't having to do a lot of extra work.

All that said, there is something Brian might have done in the "don't post in this dup thread" post that could have made it more helpful, and that's to throw in a link to one of the other dup threads to go to and post there. If there's one that's already picked up a useful reply or two, that's a good choice.

Like this one: Multiple problems after o2 sensor short to ground | PriusChat

That way, it doesn't come off just like "don't post here!".