IMHO the Appliance Forum has been moving at a snail's pace lately. It seems that most of the informative posters from a year ago have moved on or respond less often. New posters have not taken their places. So yes, people are getting less responses or no responses. Perhaps the recession has affected GW?

OF all the forums; Kitchens definitely gets the most traffic. I typically cross post to the appropriate forum and Kitchens. I always get the most responses from Kitchens even when off topic.

Weissman: We were posting at the same time. You are one of the posters still around! Thanks for your voice of reason and the help you have provided me.

>sometimes people don't like the answer they get on the appliance forum so they post here hoping to get a "better" answer

That's true, of course, but I've cross posted sometimes when I only get one or two responses there, especially on questions of preference or judgment. There are more opinions available here, and the larger group of posters means there are often more people who've had hands-on experience with a particular model, especially if it's not really high end. If I needed help on a Cluny, I'd expect to probably find all I need in Appliances, but not necessarily for a basic GE .

the people on Applicances,in my experience, are very helpful and well-informed, but OTOH things can degenerate over there pretty quickly. I have seen people getting really nasty about BTUs! Sometimes I just prefer the level of info and politeness over here.

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