Please please can you make the OP unquotable?

Do people do it because they have experience of other forums where the line of discussion is less apparent? I don’t know - I don’t frequent any others. But perhaps clearer guidance on MN posting etiquette might help, too?

I read a thread on here where a few posters said they did it as they knew it annoyed people, I suspect that’s true.

id also make it unquotable. I find it ridiculous that people quote the initial post.

Sometimes I quote the OP simply so that it's easy to copy pieces of it into my post. Sometimes I forget to clear the quote when I'm done

On this thread? If so, you can't have looked very closely.

AND stick a link near the "add new post" box to make the OP easily visible to them while writing their reply, without having to quote it?

This is interesting. Only the OP may have become irrelevant if the thread starter has updated with info that changes the situation. Referring to the OP would be pointless and disruptive in that circumstance.

Why does this actually bother people? I actually need reminding of the OP!

Not like that no. A proper "quote" appears in a shaded box with attributed author and time stamp. Copying and pasting a paragraph is what we used to do before the quote function was added but it's a lot less useful.

There's clearly a cohort of users who hate seeing the op repeated eleventy-six times (including me) and a different cohort who are doing it deliberately because they are accessing mumsnet in a way that doesn't give them ready access to the OP. So perhaps the request to MNHQ needs to be to make the OP unquotable AND stick a link near the "add new post" box to make the OP easily visible to them while writing their reply, without having to quote it?

Yes. And I'm 'guilty' of quoting the original post sometimes (not always). When I do it it's usually because it's a long post and I need to refer to details in that post as I write the reply. I really don't find it annoying when the original post is repeated above a reply.

I agree with a pp who said it would be good if we could just quote excerpts rather than an entire post.

Like this?

Oh yes please.

It is such a pointless thing to do, and when it is a long post, it clogs up the pages.

Your neighbour's optician's cousin

Why 🤷‍♀️

100% agree.
Also was scrolling waiting for some twat to have quoted the OP, and v pleased to see it’s not happened… yet!!

It's a setting you can turn on but it's a quite popular one.

Go to settings, then "Talk settings" and there is an option there to set how many posts you want to see per page, (25, 50, 100, or all).

I just scroll past. Takes less than a second.

I have it set to view 100 posts at a time. On a very long thread it is sometimes difficult to work out who is talking about which post and whether they are responding to the OP or to someone else, and by the time you have scrolled up and down, you are all over the place and can't remember what you wanted to say in the first place.

I agree with a pp who said it would be good if we could just quote excerpts rather than an entire post. I'm on another forum (hobby-related) and it allows you to do that on there.

By "angst" you mean posts?
So do you think people haven't read the OP so you need to repeat? Or do you think they have read it but need to read it again?

I totally agree

(Sorry couldn't resist!)

As soon as MN introduced the "You liked this thread, so you might like these other threads" bit (it can be hidden in settings but I now see that it's popping up in the middle of threads on a screen so they've introduced something new recently) there was an outcry because old threads that some posters made but based on the topic may not have wanted to see again kept being selected by some stupid algorithm.

They won't introduce this because, from MN perspective, any hit on a page, even an old one, is a revenue stream and money talks.

😂Some people are so odd.

I didn't realise there was also a limit to how many times I could post on a thread.

Perhaps you could start a thread in site stuff suggesting a limit?

Why ?

Considering you've posted more than anyone in this thread, the angst would seem to be coming from your direction.

It's just the same as quoting any other post. I don't get all the angst over it tbh.

Genuine questions: why do you do that instead of just saying "OP, ....."?

Do you think people haven't read the OP so you need to repeat? Or do you think they have read it but need to read it again?

How do you think anyone responded to the OP before the quote function was brought in?

Just trying to understand the train of thought that leads to posting the one post repeatedly that most posters are likely to have read.