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Please please can you make the OP unquotable?

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StandingOvulation · 15/05/2024 12:01

My neighbour's optician's cousin works in IT and said it's uber simple to amend.

Save all of our heads, please.

💞

OP posts:

MasterBeth · 10/12/2024 19:23

Just scroll on. Not a problem.

KomproMatilda · 10/12/2024 13:36

Everyone else managed with ‘Great update, OP!’ …

MasterBeth · 10/12/2024 12:55

KomproMatilda · 10/12/2024 11:09

Last night an OP posted a long update on a thread started about three months ago. 15 minutes later a poster quoted the OP’s update in full.

🙄

I just don’t know …

Thus making sure everyone knows she's referring to the update, not the original post. Makes sense.

KomproMatilda · 10/12/2024 11:09

Last night an OP posted a long update on a thread started about three months ago. 15 minutes later a poster quoted the OP’s update in full.

🙄

I just don’t know …

Summer8summer8 · 10/12/2024 11:06

StandingOvulation · 15/05/2024 12:01

My neighbour's optician's cousin works in IT and said it's uber simple to amend.

Save all of our heads, please.

💞

Really nice one 😊

Summer8summer8 · 10/12/2024 10:51

LargeJugs · 10/06/2024 09:14

Great idea

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Yeah, great idea:)

Box24L · 11/08/2024 01:22

SoupDragon · 10/08/2024 23:34

Definitely the latter.

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Maybe that’s what it takes?

SoupDragon · 10/08/2024 23:34

Justcats · 10/08/2024 20:37

Not sure if that's sensible or a bit bossy and rude.

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Definitely the latter.

Justcats · 10/08/2024 20:37

KomproMatilda · 10/08/2024 19:15

Some sensible people have taken to linking this thread when they come upon one egregiously quoting the OP …

Just saying …

Not sure if that's sensible or a bit bossy and rude.

KomproMatilda · 10/08/2024 19:15

Some sensible people have taken to linking this thread when they come upon one egregiously quoting the OP …

Just saying …

saraclara · 10/08/2024 18:58

I thought of this thread last week, when I had to scroll through someone quoting one of the longest OPs in Mumsnet history, and who then simply responded with "no".

How did your discussions go @HebeMumsnet ?

JJathome · 10/08/2024 18:08

I was on a thread today where the very first post, quoted the op, didn’t reference elements of it ( as some posters are making out it’s like some form of academic exercise writing a response ). I just though, just why.

rayofsunshine86 · 10/08/2024 18:05

Reviving this thread as We The People would still love to see this change!

saraclara · 12/06/2024 08:07

For those who are using it so that the OP sees their response, just @ the OP. You don't need to go and find their handle. If you just type @ MN helpfully shows you the OP's handle at the top of the suggested list

Please please can you make the OP unquotable?

ABirdsEyeView · 12/06/2024 07:47

I hate the quote function generally. It would be fine if someone was quoting a short paragraph but I'm fed up of having to re read or scroll past loads of posts where the same thing has been quoted more than once.

The old copy and paste method meant that at least a poster had to put some effort into quoting, so used it sparingly and confined their quote to the relevant information.

crenellations · 10/06/2024 19:45

SoupDragon · 10/06/2024 09:11

What would be a better solution is if a quoted OP remains "collapsed" in the same way quotes of quotes do.

Then everyone is happy.

Good solution!

QueenOfTheEntireFuckingUniverse · 10/06/2024 17:02

SoupDragon · 10/06/2024 16:29

Not on mine there isn't!

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I've never had one either. I get a dot if I have a PM. That's all.

Regardless of dots/notifications you don't to quote the OP. If I start a thread I check it regularly and assume replies are to me, unless they @ or quote someone else.

Isometimeswonder · 10/06/2024 16:35

StandingOvulation · 15/05/2024 12:01

My neighbour's optician's cousin works in IT and said it's uber simple to amend.

Save all of our heads, please.

💞

Couldn't resist.

SoupDragon · 10/06/2024 16:29

MasterBeth · 10/06/2024 15:26

There will be a red dot on your account if you've been mentioned, as you have by me in this thread. You don't need to be the OP.

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Not on mine there isn't!

KomproMatilda · 10/06/2024 16:28

Many many Mumsnet threads are an evolving conversation between dozens of people, not a dialogue between the OP and Everyone Else.

No need yo tell me that - I’m on the 160 somethingth Archers thread. I was just trying to simplify the concept for my interlocutor.

ViscountessMelbourne · 10/06/2024 16:20

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 10/06/2024 16:12

No paragraphs, minimal punctuation, lots of abbreviations, basically a stream of consciousness from someone who hasn't read it through before pressing Post to see if it makes sense. I never bother with OPs like that.

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Yes I'm not bothered when people quote the OP of threads like that, because I've never got that far
amyway.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 10/06/2024 16:12

KomproMatilda · 10/06/2024 09:01

It’s even more annoying when the OP is five thousand words with no paragraphs.

And then some renegade reproduces it in full …

MasterBeth · 10/06/2024 15:29

KomproMatilda · 09/06/2024 16:27

to quote the OP when you are responding to the OP

The whole point of a MN thread is that the conversation is all in response to the OP. You have the ability to @ another poster if your comment is directly to them and not the OP. But it’s a given that the main subject of a thread is the OP’s (sometimes evolving) issue or thought.

Many many Mumsnet threads are an evolving conversation between dozens of people, not a dialogue between the OP and Everyone Else.

MasterBeth · 10/06/2024 15:26

QueenOfTheEntireFuckingUniverse · 09/06/2024 16:19

I don't get notifications.

But if i was the OP of a post I'd be checking it regularly anyway.

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There will be a red dot on your account if you've been mentioned, as you have by me in this thread. You don't need to be the OP.

whatsappdoc · 10/06/2024 13:28

I agree with the collapsed quote for the opening post! Brilliant idea and everyone is happy.

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