All of the above users directly quoted the OP or are answering other users who quoted the OP in a thread that I really would consider dead already. The question is who is at fault? The guy who bumped the thread 1st sirminesalot? All of them? Guys who kept bumping? Just want everyone to take a step or 2 in my shoes and give their opinions on what you would do with all these users?
This is the kind of stuff that 1 user can cause. I user posting in this thread caused 31 others to post an opinion.
**EDIT**
As I go through more and more users I'm starting to see this as common practice for some participants. They're quoting the OP and replying adding 0 value to the post or offering an opinion that has been offered 10x already. Hammer will be falling on these types.
Majority of us here are guilty of this practice not only on one campaign we are tempted to reply on one thread because we thought we can give a better answer than all the rest we scroll on the first page of the reply and you saw that your reply can be unique than all the others, but you did not know there's a similar answer of your post on the second or third or fourth pages, but it's a waste of time scrolling all the replies that can go to 10 pages to see if there is a similar reply that you are going to post, it's going to be a lot of burden.
If this is the case the participants will just prefer to open a new thread or give them a rule that you can only reply to a post that only has 5 posts that's quite hard because all-new thread gets a minimum 10 replies in less than an hour.
If you want to introduce this new rule then go-ahead but let the participants know about it first, everybody here wants to stay in this campaign but they want to be comfortable while doing their task.