What's your MN Niggle

[JackThayer]

Mine is when the thread is something along the lines of "what's your favourite dinner?" Or "Worst holiday you've ever been on?" And OP replies to every single post!

Threads being completely derailed from the subject

People who quote the whole of the original post in their reply.

@OrigamiOwls Totally agree, why do people do this - particularly annoying when it’s a long post.

Response to every single thread 'have you considered that you/ they might be ND?'

Mine is the length of time it takes for MNHQ to take down troll posts.

THIS!!!

What is the actual point?!

It goes without saying , when the answer to a particular problem is obvious " to go and see a GP" 🤷🏻‍♀️

"You sound like hard work" gets my hackles up, as do all the online diagnoses usually related to completely normal human behaviour

People who don't RTFT. A perfect example of such a thread has just been deleted.

When a poster accuses someone of being a man simply because the poster doesn't agree with them.

Poor comprehension, usually because someone CBA to read posts properly.

Starting a post with "x here."

Does anyone say that in offline life? Even in briefings where it's a quickfire introduction of 10+ people we manage to introduce ourselves properly and without sounding like a bellend.

There is also a poster who puts "reader" in the middle of her posts and stories. It's an online conversation, you're not some big writer with a fawning audience! Can't remember when I last saw her. Maybe she's fallen under a bus. Or left the forum. That'd be less dramatic. And nicer.

People who demand you haven't read the full thread...why should you. You are replying to the OP... if they then drip feed to change the context then thats just silly

Absolutely agree with both @OrigamiOwls and @WASZPy
came on to say both of those.

And the search function is clunky.

Plus the men (and occasional woman) who come on to be sleazy. Wish they'd stick to the sex topic 🤢

I also don't wholly agree with mn's view on not calling out very obvious trolls (often linked to my point above). I hate seeing gullible posters sharing private things about themselves or - worse - their children for what is clearly wank fodder 🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮

Which thread?

Also people who are really obscure in their OP so the majority of the thread is a guessing game as to the true nature of the scenario.
There was one earlier today about an Airbnb booking and 2 adult children not sharing the cost and I suspect the OP was actually making up their further explanations in order to not be in the wrong.

OPs who don’t come back

In that case, I suspect @DancingFerret and @Puzzlefactor are referring to people like you @Maddy70
And fwiw, I agreed with both their posts.

One about a shared drive on a property. Which wasn't actually a shared drive after all. Despite it being pointed out many times,posters kept replying to the OP. It was quite funny in the end.

Persistent use of the term 'naice'

When people imagine bits in the OP or make huge assumptions. The mental gymnastics is wild sometimes.

Some OP's are really a mystery, can't remember off the top of my head which thread it was yesterday scant details given so a conclusion was really difficult to come to .

Posters who don’t read the full thread.

Posters who derail the thread to make a point - a prime example being gender scans. Everyone knows what it means but every reply will be ‘I think you mean sex’.

Everyone assumed to be neurodiverse / have a dementia rather than just being a bit of a twat.

'Haven't RTFT but have you thought about phoning them?'

You might not have read all 437 replies, but you can see they are there. You really think that only a free thinkin', maverick, loose cannon of a renegade like yourself came up with that one?

Gutted to have missed it!