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Why oh why do people quote the first OP…

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MamaGhina · 11/03/2024 20:08

…especially on pg1. We’ve all read the OP. Why do you need to quote it? Subsequent posts as the thread moves, fine. But why the whole first post?

Just opened a thread and read the OP. The very first response quotes the OP. I mean, come on! Even more annoying when it’s a long post and you have to scroll past the lot.

And breathe.

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Cotswoldbee · 19/05/2024 12:39

@frankentall

No really, it is a decent sized thread which was lasted posted on only 2-months ago and those of us without anything else to worry about, like to get upset about it.😉

More unusual would be commenting on a recent comment which was entirely in keeping with the AIBU.😘

frankentall · 19/05/2024 11:20

Cotswoldbee · 18/05/2024 13:21

Just come across a really annoying example posted a very short while ago in the property section (about moving to a rural area).

New thread, long OP post and just a handful of replies (so still at the top of Pg1).
Poster adds a reply but not only quotes the OP, they then copy & past (in bold) a paragraph out of that post that they particularly want to comment on meaning it is in their post twice.

WHY?!?!?!?!?!?😖

Going to sit down for a while to calm down.🤯

Bit of a random thread resurrection.

JWhipple · 19/05/2024 11:16

MamaGhina · 11/03/2024 20:08

…especially on pg1. We’ve all read the OP. Why do you need to quote it? Subsequent posts as the thread moves, fine. But why the whole first post?

Just opened a thread and read the OP. The very first response quotes the OP. I mean, come on! Even more annoying when it’s a long post and you have to scroll past the lot.

And breathe.

Impossible to say

Cotswoldbee · 18/05/2024 13:21

Just come across a really annoying example posted a very short while ago in the property section (about moving to a rural area).

New thread, long OP post and just a handful of replies (so still at the top of Pg1).
Poster adds a reply but not only quotes the OP, they then copy & past (in bold) a paragraph out of that post that they particularly want to comment on meaning it is in their post twice.

WHY?!?!?!?!?!?😖

Going to sit down for a while to calm down.🤯

Gymnopedie · 12/03/2024 22:38

imnotsickbutimnotwell · 12/03/2024 14:19

I don’t do it but I think people used to do it so that if the OP edits the post to remove all the text and replace the whole post with “delete delete delete” they can still read what the OP was.

I think you're being very kind and generous with that interpretation. But I'm not sure what the right one is.

(And if the OP deletes the post you can still see it anyway - click on the 'edited' button. It only disappears if MN delete it.)

puzzledout · 12/03/2024 19:14

OneCornetto · 12/03/2024 18:46

Honestly worse stuff happens every day!

Bingo!

Yeah really the s get about an innocuous post on MN, actually calling people dickheads .... just bloody hilarious!

Have a glass of gin and calm down!

Another bingo?

GrinGrinGrin

OneCornetto · 12/03/2024 18:46

Honestly worse stuff happens every day!

Bingo!

puzzledout · 12/03/2024 18:35

AngeloMysterioso · 12/03/2024 14:49

Good god, the number of dickheads on this thread doing that exact thing because, what? They think they’re being so clever and witty? Slow claps for all of you.

Oh come on ... lighten up! It's quite funny!

Honestly worse stuff happens every day!

moonfacer · 12/03/2024 15:59

Because there are a lot of over-sensitive people who think that because you’ve replied to OP straight after them then that means you are passive aggressively referring to their post which is just above yours.

I don’t quote the OP but I can see why some people do.

CallMeDaphne · 12/03/2024 15:43

MamaGhina · 11/03/2024 20:08

…especially on pg1. We’ve all read the OP. Why do you need to quote it? Subsequent posts as the thread moves, fine. But why the whole first post?

Just opened a thread and read the OP. The very first response quotes the OP. I mean, come on! Even more annoying when it’s a long post and you have to scroll past the lot.

And breathe.

It is so annoying…

MagnoliaBrown · 12/03/2024 15:42

So what is other people have started threads about this a year ago?

Did we all have to stop talking about something, here on this talk forum, because there was a thread about it last June?

AutumnCrow · 12/03/2024 15:17

AngeloMysterioso · 12/03/2024 14:49

Good god, the number of dickheads on this thread doing that exact thing because, what? They think they’re being so clever and witty? Slow claps for all of you.

Yup, they're the office workers who think it's hilarious to bring in penis-shaped chocolates on Valentine's Day 'for people who aren't getting any, fnar fnar', who you spend far too much time trying to get away from on a daily basis to the point of super-glueing massive headphones to your nut.

AngeloMysterioso · 12/03/2024 14:49

Good god, the number of dickheads on this thread doing that exact thing because, what? They think they’re being so clever and witty? Slow claps for all of you.

WhatFlavourIsIt · 12/03/2024 14:24

Even worse, I was reading a thread a couple of nights ago. The op was quoting their own post, followed by another posters reply & then their reply to each post. I just gave up.

imnotsickbutimnotwell · 12/03/2024 14:19

I don’t do it but I think people used to do it so that if the OP edits the post to remove all the text and replace the whole post with “delete delete delete” they can still read what the OP was.

Wendysfriend · 12/03/2024 14:12

Yes and when it's a long op and they reply with one word or a very short line 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 I end up clicking out

Brefugee · 12/03/2024 14:09

NomDePrune · 12/03/2024 14:01

You have to click the funnel top right of page

Show quote history

Android or iPhone? mine is horrendously purple. I loathe the entirety of it's useless self 😀

Brefugee · 12/03/2024 14:07

in fact - i work with devs so this is a particular bugbear of mine - the app is so bloody amateurish i try to only use it for mindless scrolling while waiting for a train. I hate it with the heat of a thousand suns.

Brefugee · 12/03/2024 14:06

my App doesn't have any of that. And won't allow me to add pics so - meh.

MagnoliaBrown · 12/03/2024 14:06

I hate it too.

There was talk about not being able to quote the OP.

Brefugee · 12/03/2024 14:06

No funnel. And no opportunity to add a photo so can't attach screen shot.

NomDePrune · 12/03/2024 14:04

Brefugee · 12/03/2024 11:15

for EG in the app (Android) i can - from the I'm watching list - hide a thread. (or open it)

once in the thread i can un/watch or hide. That is it.

Then click the OP name at top and it will filter showing only their posts.

But like I said, often they have totally disappeared and never come back to the thread.

NomDePrune · 12/03/2024 14:01

Brefugee · 12/03/2024 11:15

for EG in the app (Android) i can - from the I'm watching list - hide a thread. (or open it)

once in the thread i can un/watch or hide. That is it.

You have to click the funnel top right of page

Why oh why do people quote the first OP…
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