Potential change alert: should we make bolding, underlining, links and smileys easier? And what of spellcheck?

Yes to all of your suggestions. Although I already have a spell checker on Firefox.

And I love the idea of the OP's posts being highlighted, like on a Webchat. Makes it much easier to find the replies on a long thread.

Yes please, my spelling is terrible and it would be handy (are we getting a mobile version of MN at any point?)

Spellchecker? On Mumsnet? This is really messing with your brand.

How will we separate the wheat from the chaff if we can't identify those who don't know their it's from their its?

I can see this going tit's up

While you're at it, could you fix it so that hen you click on a thread it takes you to the last place you read it. It would save hours of scrolling on a busy thread.

You know what we really need?
A catsbum face emoticon.

I think it's a good idea in theory, but only if it's well done. Some sites have word-processing style editors and the code they produce is really messy and can fuck up the whole page on occasion.

Also I am not in favour of anything which makes the page look too cluttered (still not really happy about the twitter/facebook links or the twitter box or the MNTV box) or increases the load time of the page so much that the reply box has to be moved to a new page of its own. I like being able to reply on the thread page, it's handy for fast moving threads.

So agreeing, but tentatively here. I am slightly suspicious.

spellcheck means that we will never know when the fishy one is back in our midst

Oh, and highlighting OP's subsequent posts on the thread is also a good idea.

I like the enhancements Tech is suggesting, and agree totally that coloured/flashing text, avatars, animated emoticons, tickers and editing are utterly out of the question. Totally unMNy.

But I would like to be able to opt in and out of spellchecker easily - ie from within the posting area, perhaps on the toolbar, not from My Mumsnet. That way you could check a word if you wanted, but not be bothered by wavey lines if you wanted to retain your own idiosyncratic (and therefore very MNy) style.

Agree also that quoting is ghastly and really slows down the flow of threads. But it is soemtimes useful to identify a specific post to which you are responding. Perhaps there could be a button in the header bar of that post, which you couldclick and it would auto-enter the poster's name and time info into the posting box and take you to the posting box ready to respond.

BTW I don't understand why people are struggling to use MN on an iPhone (apart from the b#@@€¥ autocorrect). This is one of the best 'full-scale' sites I've come across. I MN more from my iPhone than frm my pc, now - I just don't need to use the pc for MN, whereas I do for most other sites.

buttons yes, quote yes, editing no, spellcheck no. Colours no.

But then a post counter could be detrimental to newcomers who do have a situation which could be shouted 'troll' at, HoC

If I'd only been here for a few months lurking and with a handful of genuine posts and then decided to post about something very odd/different/strange/upsetting/personally identifying/whatever (under a name change) going on and my counter read '11 posts since joining' or something, wouldn't that then open up the thread to cries of ? If we're operating on the 'number of posts means you're prob not a troll' theory

Could we have a post counter please - one that was kept with name changes? So you could name change for sensitive topics if you wanted and could not be 'searched' but your post count would be 300 million so people would know that you probably werent a troll. Also, trolls joining just for trolling purposes could be identified by the fact that they only had 1 post iyswim? ATM all you have to do is go "Im not a troll I know all about mouldies, bobble plate, cod etc" and peopel go oh ok then you're fine. I like the idea of high lighting OP's posts as well/.

Thanks!

Please, please, please!!
Yes to spellchecking: the spelling mistakes drive me to distraction. Can you do a grammarchecker, too?

No to colour text - that would be too identifiable to work spies when you're on MN surreptitiosly (I can't spell that word. I'll have the spell check as an optional extra...)

Can we have a version for work where all the smilies are replaced with the text version? Then I'm pretty sure I could MN without someone spying a smilie and knowing I'm not reading something work relted on the net?

No editing or quoting...cannot stand quoting on other forums! Drives me mad. Everyone quoting each other...the thread ends up a bazzillion pages long because of it.

Good idea.

yes please,and whilst we are on the subject of changes could you consider highlighting the OP posts in bold?

Also on the 'my mumsnet' could you record the number of 'hits',I think that would be really interesting,do controversial posters get more hits?does anyone ever read mine?

Yes please, but keep it simple!

OH god, please no tickers and keep it clean and simple please... I agrer with:
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Just make sure the spell checker wont crash the whole posting if it throws a flid. I have had word, lotus, etc all crash cos the spelling and grammar could cope with my unqiue view on the subjects. making it pick up common dyslexic type errors would be good. although then i might be compelled to use it and cba with correct spellnig. here if dont fooking matter if i cant speel and although the pendants would love a basic grammar one that sorts the difference btwn loose and lose etc.

I am forever typing [gurn] actually can we have a gurning smiley that would be ace. :D [gurn]

I agree no tickers, sigs, tags, avatars, moving smileys or that sort of shite please i like Mumsnet becuase it doesnt have all that stuff.

I would love it becuase,

a. I cant spell for shite
b. I am so clumsy with typing that im forever trying to bold or italic something only for it to go tits up.

Please impliment soon Tech, then do me another favour and make Mumsnet into a Blackberry ap and i will be sorted.

As long as it's not too cluttered.
I like the "clean lines" of mumsnet.