Can we have some sort of 'warning' for people who repeatedly post without reading all of OP's posts?

The one that always sticks in my memory is the woman who posted about unexplained bloating. As she documented her diagnosis with and treatment of ultimately fatal ovarian cancer over a period of months, posters would pop up suggesting she cut out gluten.

Always, always at least scan the OP's posts before commenting.

I hate it when that happens. I think OPs are best off hiding the thread in that case.

I've just come away from a thread where the OP had originally been incredibly unreasonable in a situation with her SIL. She was faced with a barrage of very blunt responses in her thread, but instead of running away and saying 'you're all horrible' she actually listened, found it hard, but reflected, recognised where her behaviour had come from, was mortified, and has done a U turn and apologised to the family member.

However she's still having to face posts from people who haven't bothered reading beyond the OP and are continuing to berate her. It's all so unnecessary.

If an app is not fit for purpose, then Mumsnet should not have it at all. Why have an app that doesn't even have the functions it should.

They're not going to do any of this anyway so really this thread is just "things posters do that annoy the hell out of me "

Ok but that doesn't change what I'm saying.

I know I'm a bit of a technophobe but my android phone has a 'see all' option for the OP's posts - I always make a point of reading them all before commenting even if I cba to read all the repetitive comments.

Haven’t RTFT but have you thought about a spa day?

Given their inability to remove racist anti-Irish posts, they're obviously not that busy doing that.

But again, I'd like to think they would be busier removing nasty/racist/abelist etc comments instead.

I just don't think they have the time to get involved to sooth mild irritation.

And then even if they did, posters who are irritated about other things would probably expect them to deal with those too.

I'm on android, obviously then!

Maybe 'placemarking' should be added to the instant hide list along with other words such as the sports shoes that sound a bit like Plymouth soles - at least make people work for it and be a little inventive if they're determined to clog up threads that way!

That's exactly the sort of thing I mean. There are some threads where the majority of the posts are placemarking by saying something irrelevant or innane. Maybe on threads like that, MNHQ could post with instructions on how to watch a thread without cluttering it up.

I couldn't agree more. The Android app should be amended to allow it if it doesn't work, though; although I use an Android phone but in the browser.

I've tried to address this before to culprits in a kind, friendly way, but they usually get so angry and defensive and all "I'm a busy mum, dontchaknow" - and they genuinely cannot understand how they have been rude by weighing into a long conversation without having the basic decency and good manners to actually find out what it's about (beyond a title and single opening post - often they just skim the title and guess) and where it's developed to.

I wonder if some people think that MN is like Quora - so you have one opening post/question and a whole load of people replying in a vacuum to just that one post - rather than an actual discussion forum.

I don't think having a notice/warning about it would make any difference at all, sadly. The first rule of notices - however clear and prominent - is that the only people who ever see/bother to read them are the ones for whom they were never needed in the first place.

Drip feeding can be a problem, but it frequently isn’t to blame at all here. Situations and circumstances develop and new info is not known by anybody until things develop and progress and stuff has happened - often as a result of OP acting on advice and suggestions given in the thread. The ongoing Dyson Air Wrap threads, to name just two (or is it three yet?!).

I always remember the heartbreaking Anglesey thread when this kind of thing happens. When you chime in without being at all arsed to see how a thread has developed, your contribution may just be irrelevant and/or annoying; but in many instances, it can cause real upset to the OP and/or their loved ones when you just plough in, 600 messages in, and assume that you're psychic and instinctively know things without ever reading, hearing or learning them.

Oh well, I'd better go back on to the current films thread and inform the poster who made a genuine (and hardly groundbreaking) mistake that it was actually Art Garfunkel who sang Bright Eyes and not Paul McCartney. I know 20 people have already done this, but I just know that the message won't properly get through until I repeat it yet again...

I used to think like that, but to be honest so many people placemark with something generic like 'Agreed', they may as well just put 'placemarking'.

Shaun the sheep 😁

And can we add in some way of discouraging people from replying to placemark on a thread. The watch feature does the job perfectly well and doesn't result in a thread that fills up in 5 minutes.

Divorce him.

I’d like to be able to partially quote rather than copying / pasting the bit I’m replying to in a longer post

I either quote (or copy and paste the relevant part) of any post other than the OP so it's clear what I'm replying too.

Personally I hate it when someone just @s someone else, or even me. Chances are I can't remember what was said so the reply doesn't mean anything.

Yes I agree with this. I also think people should NOT be able to quote someone's post if it was less than 10 posts ago. I have seen this happen with mine and that of many others too. And if it's a long one it's soooo annoying. A ten-paragraph, 600 word post reposted within 2-3 minutes, and around 2-5 posts after! Ridiculous!

I've had a number of occasions where someone has reposted a post of mine within half a minute of me submitting it, and their post was directly after mine. WTAF was the point in reposting a post that someone has only just submitted? Especially one that's 500-600 words long?!

Not sure how MN is going to police people responding to the OP's first post with an answer people have already given though @HyggeTygge That will be a really tall order to police that. Can't see this happening. Then again, I can't see them policing people reposting someone's lengthy posts 30 seconds after they posted it either!

Sometimes it's not an ongoing situation and it really is a case of a poorly written OP. For example, I'm currently on a thread where both things have happened. The poster is annoyed that a colleague threw away some of her things left on her desk when he had to use her desk. There are questions and questions either asking whether it's a shared desk or just asserting that it is when it isn't. OP could have avoided all that by specifying in the OP that it's her allocated desk, but colleagues occasionally use it temporarily.

On the other hand, there are other questions and comments about 'clear desk policy' trying to blame the OP for leaving papers on her desk in the first place. I wouldn't argue that OP should have specified that her organisation doesn't have a clear desk policy because people shouldn't be assuming that in the first place. In this case, it's up to posters to look at all the OP's posts to find out there is no clear desk policy. It does make for a very frustrating read.

Difficult at times, but still easier for us to do that than to keep getting moderators involved

I think this is what it keeps coming back too. Mumsnet doesn't have moderaters, we self moderate.

It comes down to making a choice. There are plenty of heavily moderated forums out there if that's what people want. We don't need it here.

Scroll back to the copy and past from MNHQ that I posted earlier.

They're very overstretched, and the Spam Bots seem to be taking up a lot of their time too.

I think as members we need to practice a little patience and learn to do a bit more scrolling by.

Difficult at times, but still easier for us to do that than to keep getting moderators involved.