...to hate when people don't quote the people they're replying to?

[aIways]

I guess IABU as I bloody hate these kinds of threads usually - I really don't give a shit if people say hubby on MN or have shit grammar or whatever. I just scroll past if somebody posts something that's annoying or rude or whatever and enjoy reading the telling off they get from other posters.

But when you have an interesting thread full of people @ing usernames to reply, instead of quoting and bolding the words that they're actually replying to.

Why?!?

I wanna know the drama. I'm interested in what you're saying. If you say 'are you fucking joking @user1234? That is the most outrageous thing I've ever seen in 33 years on MN. Have my first you absolute wanker', I obviously want to refer back to what user1234 said. But then I have to scroll back through 100 comments to find it (and then when user1234 has said something like 'I really don't think Tom Hardy is that attractive', I can't believe I've wasted three minutes of my life searching for the cause of the outrage to find out it's that).

AMAs are the worst. I find some of them so interesting but if I have to scroll through millions of comments to find out which question you're actually answering, it's hardly ever worth the effort.

It's like one of those huge choose your own story books as a kid where it tells you to go to page 4 if you choose to board the UFO or whatever, you finally find page 4 and it tells you you were bloody dreaming the whole time. x1000

I know, I know, people can use MN how they want. But this has annoyed me for years and I'm massively sleep deprived and have never seen a thread moaning about this before (unlike poor bloody grammar or people not reading the full thread, which I think is loads less annoying than this issue).

AIBU? Does this not get on anybody else's wick?

Disclaimer before the 'I wish my life was as stress free as to worry about this' brigade descends: This thread is more lighthearted than it sounds, I'm possibly using it as an outlet for the rage I feel about a million more other pressing issues in my life

"Disclaimer before the 'I wish my life was as stress free as to worry about this' brigade descends: This thread is more lighthearted than it sounds, I'm possibly using it as an outlet for the rage I feel about a million more other pressing issues in my life grin"
Is this OK? :o
Anyway you'll regret that op. I started a light hearted thread the other day and regretted it when I got told I clearly had too much free time. No - but the little I do have I like to chat on mn. Until idiots like that ruin it for me.

What annoys me - if I can really get myself worked up about it - is when people quote other posters but don't use any kind of formatting, or even speech marks, to make it clear that they are quoting them.

Then you get a post which really doesn't make sense at all!

It bugs me too OP. You explain it very well. Everyone else IBU!!

I dont know how to highlight a name and quote a post ? Been searching how to do it x

I agree with you op.

The @ thing is useful when someone is replying to one of my posts.

But it certainly isn’t helpful when I’m an observer or reading other posts 😂

What annoys me - if I can really get myself worked up about it * - is when people quote other posters but don't use any kind of formatting, or even speech marks, to make it clear that they are quoting them.

Then you get a post which really doesn't make sense at all!*

Ok, have you advance searched me? I definitely forget to bold half the time on occasion. Always post straight away apologising for it though. Wishing for an 'edit post' button. I guess we all have our faults! But I still maintain my one is by far the most irritating.

If anyone could tell me how I can copy and paste other people’s posts on an iPad I’m happy to oblige. 😉

I agree with you too Op!

Agree, it's much better if someone copy pastes the sentence.

@always totally agree!

😆

Tbh MN is SO user unfriendly as a forum
I can see how this happens. Copying/ pasting/ highlighting is such a fag on here and frequently goes wrong when you try it. It’s such a pain particularly on a phone. I think when you use a forum which only has very basic features you have to expect it really

YANBU - also the:

"^^ what she said" posts boil my piss.

What who said? The post directly above or the one you thought you were posting under before the thread moved on 8 pages and you fucked off to make a cup of tea without refreshing???

Is there an easy way to quote previous comments on the app? That's the reason I don't do it - I don't know how!

"Disclaimer before the 'I wish my life was as stress free as to worry about this' brigade descends: This thread is more lighthearted than it sounds, I'm possibly using it as an outlet for the rage I feel about a million more other pressing issues in my life grin"
Is this OK? :o
Anyway you'll regret that op. I started a light hearted thread the other day and regretted it when I got told I clearly had too much free time. No - but the little I do have I like to chat on mn. Until idiots like that ruin it for me.

Absolutely feel free to copy and paste this disclaimer into any future jokey threads you create. Hope it helps in preventing you receiving the most pointless replies in MN history (god, I wish this was all I had to worry about; you've got too much time on your hands etc etc). Really helpful and amusing, so glad you provided that brilliant contribution

For people who do the @ thing - copying and pasting is where you highlight the words you want to copy, right click and click copy - or if on a computer, you can try ctrl + c. It's really simple, give it a try.

Oh god, I completely cross posted with loads of innocent posters! Sorry, I didn't mean to take the piss out of you. One sec and I'll explain.

Agree, but I don't find it very user-friendly to copy+paste. Most other forums you can do it at just the click of a button.

Unless I am missing something?

@Alsohuman

If anyone could tell me how I can copy and paste other people’s posts on an iPad I’m happy to oblige.

I’m on an iPhone but it’s the same on an iPad... You just do it like you’d copy any text: press and hold the word until the black bar saying SELECT | SELECT ALL | PASTE comes up, just above where your finger is.

Choose SELECT, then drag the blue highlight bar until it covers all the text you’d like to copy.

Let go and you’ll get a new bar with options. Choose COPY. Then move to where you’d like to paste the text, double-tap, see the options come up in the black bar again, and press PASTE.

Give it a try! 😊

Yes! This bugs me aswell, I thought I was the only one!

When the thread is really long, like up to 678 posts, a poster says
@userXYZ
You are really stupid and unintelligent

I think "oooohhh drama, what did userXYZ say?" and then I have to scroll back to find out what was said.

(Disclaimer: I have also posted this in the spirit of the lighthearted thread. If your user name is 'userXYZ' I mean no offence and in no way think you are stupid or unintelligent )

However, be aware if you have stated typing in the reply box you then lose the ability to go back above to the thread and highlight in order to copy and paste

Also, highlighting particular sections only on an I phone is a hassle

If you're on a computer, you do as above. Apologies for the passive aggression, definitely didn't anticipate replies actually asking how to do it.

If you're on an iPhone:

Press and hold, or double tap, one of the words in the post you want to quote.

Drag the big blue dots to the beginning and end of the quote.

Click 'copy'.

Start a new post, double tap on the screen and click paste.

Then follow the first two steps to highlight it again, press the arrow button on the right, click on the BIU, then click bold - to make it bold.

You can click on the T underneath your draft post to bold it instead after highlighting, but sometimes this doesn't work for me. Might for you though.

No idea about androids, hope somebody else can explain that if needed. Hope that makes sense. I'm a large glass of wine down already after a horrible day. Apologies again, definitely didn't mean to be rude to people trying to change their devilish ways

I try that constantly. The only text that shows Select All is my own, it doesn’t work on other people’s posts. 😢

Do agree it's quite user unfriendly though. I understand the arguments against a layout like Reddit's. But it would be useful if people could just click reply, have the relevant post appear highlighted in your replying post, and then you could type your response and it appear as normal. I can't see many downsides to that. You could still @ as well if you felt the need to.

What does everyone else think?

I end up not replying to stuff precisely because I can't do this on my Android phone on the app.

It's a pain.

It pisses me off no end. Even if I could make that palaver work, my comment would be irrelevant by the time l’d done it!