Do people just read the titles then post these day?

I skim read at best. I might read all of the OP’s posts, but I never read all of the others.

But if you're having a conversation, it's pretty rude to butt in without actually paying attention to what the other person is saying, isn't it?

I think i see more threads moaning about it than examples of it 🤣 but then i dont read the replies beyond the first few tbf 🤣

Just scroll on by, no need to get cross

Start like a jackrabbit / finish in front of it...

drives me mad when OP has been a bit unclear but clarifies in a follow up post but so many people come on asking to clarify because they can’t be arsed to read all the OPs posts

It's infuriating. Unless I see MN differently to everyone else, right at the top of the OP you see the thread title, the number of posts already on the thread and the date and time when the OP was posted. MN has made it really easy to see all the OP's posts. In spite of this, people glance at a few words in the thread title, jump to conclusions about what the OP is saying, and weigh in. It doesn't matter if 500 other people have already said the same thing, or if the OP was posted 20 years ago. What's even more infuriating is the way so many when this is pointed out will respond by saying things like 'What does it matter? Why do you take it all so seriously? It's just words on the internet' etc etc. Yes, it's just words on the internet. But words on the internet can be interesting, entertaining, thought-provoking, informative and so on - if there is a genuine conversation happening. Not so much if it's just pointless repetition and thoughtless rubbish being posted.

And breathe ...

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100% although it's not particularly recent (although perhaps is getting worse) - I remember moaning about it years ago. I posted a very short post once asking for a nail varnish- literally three lines, something like, does anyone know what brand does x colour (it's definitely not Y brand, I've already tried that). First few posts all recommending y brand!

That's why AI posts are so easy to spot because they've been trained to reiterate the key parts multiple times. In short sentences. With repetition. Because otherwise nothing goes in!

I wouldn’t be surprised if the uptick in this phenomenon is due to more people getting accustomed to short snappy clips on social media. Their algorithms spew out a million clips they flick through with a few seconds to grasp the message and content of each one. Actually absorbing and understanding information is clearly a fading trait.

The ones I have issues with are, similar to what other posters have said;
When posting a question or ‘solution’ covered within the first half dozen posts or even OP’s original post or updates and asked why they don’t at least read the OP’s posts/updates, posters reply they can’t be bothered, don’t have the time, etc.
OPs asking what to do when they have done something illegal and then getting shirty when people tell them they have no reasonable remedy, e.g. speeding, no insurance, etc. because they shouldn’t have done it in the first place.
OPs claiming, ‘it’s not fair’ if they have broken the law and been caught because it’s a ‘silly law’, ‘everyone does it’. No, the law is there for a purpose and we don’t all do it.
Comprehension. Maybe sometimes it’s just ‘misreading’. ‘Parent your child’ no, the OP is a step-parent, the child has two parents and it’s not their place to take over from one of them.
‘Can’t you just negotiate ? – no, the OP has said their ex is abusive and violent’ you can’t negotiate with abusive and violent.
Family Courts are rubbish, skewed, etc. etc. Sorry you had a bad experience but don’t base your advice on your one experience. Edited to say, that's like the if I haven't seen or done it, it doesn't exist.

Enough for now !

Nobody is ever allowed to have lived a different life on MN. I have never been to Disneyland, so by their logic nobody else has either. In fact it doesn't even exist.

Someone actually told me once that a family situation involving my own family wasn't true because it hadn't happened to them. And that wasn't even a one off as I saw someone else getting called a liar over a similar occurrence the other day.

@LizzieSiddal I agree with you I have started checking on whether the OP even make a 2nd reply it is very annoying just to be left hanging 😝

@liveforsummer Sorry OP, what's your thread about? I couldn't be bothered to read past the first line...jokes!

It's the ones for me where a OP has a problem with a fairly logical solution like return to store/call the police/say no. And after 4 DAYS and 900 plus posts some knobhead will pop on and say return to store/call the police/say no. Like nobody else has thought of that and we've just been fumbling in the dark like Neanderthals, waiting for them and their pearls of bloody obvious wisdom to pipe up and save the day.

As I said, it doesn't bother me much!

He’s probably not left yet that’s why the lid is still up, duh.

Genuinely half the responses on this site are from bots /Ai as you can tell from the writing style. Take everything with s linch of salt and move on.

God yes the post is terrible where I live. It takes 9 days for something first class to arrive. I blame the far right. They have infiltrated the postal system pretending to be diversity hires but are clearly shit at their jobs.

Reading comprehension is poor too

there was a thread about OPs sister who clearly has long standing chronic conditions but was denied pip because she went deaf in one ear after an infection and they based the renewal on that alone

cue posters - well I got my hearing back a few weeks after the infection cleared up so why should she get pip, getting pip for deafness is outrageous, why does she need pip if she can use a hearing aid.

it really wasn’t that hard to understand the OPs point and I don’t think she came back because of all the unhelpful responses drowning the thread

It's not a conversation if someone just butts in after three hours with a point dealt with in the first two minutes if they'd only bothered their arse to listen, is it though? Not one I'd enjoy, anyway.

Does it really matter, its just a conversation

No