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Please please can you make the OP unquotable?

162 replies

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.

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OP posts:
Heavenssakes · 16/05/2024 08:59

Please,please do this.

BoudiccaOfSuburbia · 16/05/2024 08:57

Q124 · 15/05/2024 16:56

Yes agreed! Also stop people resurrecting threads from years ago and replying like it's still relevant now.

I wondered why this was suddenly happening again… it’s the banner in the middle of the thread: “if you are interested in this thread you might like these too” or whatever it says. And links to threads the MN search engine has dredged up from 2009.

In the interests of pushing up traffic the site is becoming unusable.

And the constant page reloads still aren’t sorted.

KomproMatilda · 16/05/2024 08:49

Yes please, @MNHQ!

It does terrible things to my blood pressure.

Redshoeblueshoe · 16/05/2024 08:46

Yes please

Borka · 16/05/2024 08:45

Yes please, it's so infuriating!

whatsappdoc · 16/05/2024 08:43

Yes, come on Mumsnet this must be such an easy change to make.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 15/05/2024 17:37

OP: [longest post in history, ending in AIBU and a question]
First reply: quotes OP in full and then adds 'Yes'

Even worse would be someone just posting 'F' which I believe is a Facebook abbreviation used to follow a thread. You can easily follow a thread on MN by clicking the button at the top of the thread! No need to post on it at all.

NoneedtoquotetheOP · 15/05/2024 17:24

It’s just so ‘look at my answer op’.

BoudiccaOfSuburbia · 15/05/2024 17:23

Yes!

I honestly don’t understand how MN can be such a longstanding leading website, with so many users and advertisers, and still be so awful technically.

AnneLovesGilbert · 15/05/2024 17:21

Yes!

AutumnCrow · 15/05/2024 17:15

Yes, agreed. It's being abused.

@Maddy70 I'm wondering if you can try using the mobile site rather than the app? I hear nothing good said about the app, tbh.

On my phone I can use the three dots ( ... ) at the top right of any post to open a little menu that includes 'Go To Top'. I click on that, and then when at the top there's a contraction of the opening post visible, with the option to click on two small arrows to expand to to its full glory. I do use this occasionally when I want to check back to what the OP actually said.

Xiaoxiong · 15/05/2024 17:12

Please, yes. It makes threads unreadable.

WindowViper · 15/05/2024 17:09

Yes please!!! It’s monumentally irritating.

BigMandsTattooPortfolio · 15/05/2024 17:02

Oh please yes. (It drives me nuts).

LizzieBennett73 · 15/05/2024 17:02

It doesn't need to be quotable, full stop. It's at the top of every page, surely that's the only function needed? It's so annoying and I've got no idea why so many posters are fond of doing so. Especially when they then just add a one line response!

TinkerTiger · 15/05/2024 17:01

Maddy70 · 15/05/2024 12:22

I can't on my app

Show quote history

There are a lot of issues with the app that make it difficult for people with different issues to use, which I have raised numerous times and even had a phone consultation about a ‘new and improved’ version of the app.

This was over a year ago and still there is nothing.

If we had a functioning app this wouldn’t be an issue.

Chewbecca · 15/05/2024 16:58

I wish we had the option to cut out irrelevant bits of the quote
just copy paste the bit you want to quote!

I agree with the OP's request.

Q124 · 15/05/2024 16:56

Yes agreed! Also stop people resurrecting threads from years ago and replying like it's still relevant now.

DurhamDurham · 15/05/2024 16:56

I tend to use the Mumsnet app on my mobile, sometimes I think there's a glitch as the same post keeps repeating but it turns out it's lots of posters quoting the OP. V annoying and unnecessary, especially when it's a long post to begin with.

Floralnomad · 15/05/2024 16:54

Agree

UnpickThePockets · 15/05/2024 16:53

A thousand times YES!

It also makes me think those who do quote the OP are a tad hard of thinking and subsequently skim over their post.

Wendysfriend · 15/05/2024 16:47

Oh God yes ! It's extremely annoying when the first reply quotes the op, like.. to go to the trouble of finding that quote button and then reply with what is usually the shortest reply in history wrecks my head.

Appalonia · 15/05/2024 16:45

Agree. Am sick of having to constantly scroll down reams of script, it's so tedious!

Fintoo · 15/05/2024 16:43

Another vote for yes please

sweetnessandlighter · 15/05/2024 16:42

Please do this!