You don't have to quote the whole original post.

Just stupid. We HAVE ALREADY READ the post!!

It's always some idiot who quotes a lengthy post and just puts "This" or "Exactly This"

Bore off

I'm pretty sure I posted here a while ago asking if quoted posts could be truncated (like they are now for 2nd and subsequent pages)

Maybe I dreamt it?

It's nowhere near as annoying as the flashing banner ads

This

Do you have the 'Clear quote' button on the app? (I don't use the app, it's crap, so I genuinely don't know.) I have a shocking memory but I'm also someone who finds the OP being quoted irritating, so I sometimes add the quote, compose my reply while it's right there to refer to, and then click 'Clear quote' before posting. Keeps your reply but removes the OP.

It’s annoying because you read the OP, scroll down to read replies and what are you faced with? The bloody whole OP again.

There’s NO need to quote the OP. Especially on the first page. You can pretty much guarantee that the original post is the one we’ve all fucking read.

The quote function is a wonderful addition to MN. But it really needs to be disabled for the OP.

The adverts used to drive me 🤬🤬🤬

True you don’t need a new phone to use MN - but a 950 odd posts Archers thread taking ages to load is generally a prompt for me to start thinking about an upgrade.

I don't even have an ad blocker, or a particularly new phone and it's fine.

Don't read them then, the title was self-explanatory.

But you can if you want to and these threads about quotes are so boring 😑

Perhaps, @Fishcake15, you drop in to MN for ten minutes every other week and then go back to a lovely real life? Other MN users might be ill or housebound or lonely or poor. Or they may desperately need support or advice. Or have no confidence in getting dressed or attending a meeting or party or making friends with school gate parents. So they may spend more time here, or need a site that offers what they want with ease and clarity. For all those people, a shared understanding of how the site works best can actually add or take away from their day.

What's ridiculous is someone being this passionate about etiquette on Mumsnet 😂. Maybe leave the internet alone for a bit if you're stressed out by something so petty.

This is often the “fault” of trending or FB appearances, which show a post two days after the OP date. Sometimes when the OP is asking a time sensitive question like “should I go on this date tonight or are there red flags?”

The trouble with that is that some posters then assume the bolded sentence or two that you are trying to quote (and probably disagree with) is your opinion!

Editable quoting would help.

That's interesting.
Do you have the "clear quote" button in the app that would let you delete the quoted OP after referring to it?

In the other thread about this, someone made the excellent suggestion that quoted OPs could simply be "collapsed" like quotes-within-quotes are, so that anyone who actually wants to read the OP for a 5th time can do so but everyone else can ignore.

But it sounds like this is yet another effect of how utterly crap and unfit for purpose the App is. I have never been tempted to use it.

On one of these threads someone posted they do it repeatedly as they know it annoys people. Others agreed.

I think in the overwhelming majority of cases they know it annoys people, so it drives them to do it.

I totally agree, it's infuriating

Desktop site is for laptop, no? Unless something catastrophic has happened to my phone I never use MN on my laptop because it’s hugely cumbersome and annoying. About a billion extraneous things on the screen including weird intrusive pop-ups from MN offering me services I positively do not want.

That's what mine looks like, what I thought was the desktop site. It's still slow with loading and refreshing pages.

(And no, I’m not on the Premium site! And I could have used a hyperlink for MN yesterday but didn’t bother.)

Sure. Photos of top, middle and end of this thread on my iPhone. You may need to tap each photo to see it whole.

Can you post a screenshot of what this looks like?

Can some of you really not access the mobile site? (Not the app, not the desktop.)

I access MN exclusively on my phone - and the mobile site plus an add blocker means I never encounter most of the problems some posters do. 1000 posts all on one page, different colours for my posts and for the OP’s posts. Newest post at the bottom but eager new phone races straight to my bookmark on any thread. Easy to C&P and to insert links or photos, or make a swift edit.

(Not smug, rest of life is currently crap, but MN works beautifully for me at the moment. )

Oh. The desktop site is fine on my phone.