What is the MOST irritating thing on Mumsnet?

[5YearsLeft]

I saw someone mention that something was “high on the list of most irritating Mumsnet things,” but I couldn’t find a post discussing that list. And now we have polls, I thought it might be interesting, especially “other” stuff.

When the OP responds to every single comment.

Thank. You.
It's so utterly ridiculous.

"My daughter says that the Headteacher screamed at her. All the teachers yell".
Unlikely.

When people post RUN when a woman has issues with a bloke. (Everything from small red flags to major issues)

It's so infantilising.

Oh! And the utter hate for pensioners (of which I am one!) it’s not my fault I was born when I was!! 😂 oh! And just to rub it in…I get a state pension and an NHS one! So stick that in your pipe and smoke it!

Constant threads about what the Sussexes are doing which leads to Sussex bashing.

This , it drives me nuts especially when the post is long and detailed

When someone says that they don't want their parents in law around after the birth of their baby but say it's fine for their mum to be around. Does the poor dad not get any say? The response usually seems to be 'your body.. your choice'. I always hope that those who exclude the paternal grandparents has a boy so they get a bit of karma when they become a grandparent.

reading A post in Active, going back to Active and being taken back to the beginning of the list. Sometimes it takes me to the last post i opened so it isn’t something I’m doing. If I have scroll through to find my place more than once I go elsewhere because it is really annoying

Posts in Style & Beauty saying "wear what you like, why do you care if it's fashionable or not". Completely against what the topic is about and obviously from a poster who doesn't care about it. It used to be the happy civilized corner of mumsnet and now is really boring and annoying....

The most irritating thing for me was not being able to correct a spelling mistake, which now can be done. Thank you MN for adding this feature.

I know. It's like we all had a meeting in 1986 and plotted how to shaft the next generation.

When people compose ludicrous reply texts for others to send which are inevitably terrible and will only make the situation worse. I'm always cringing.

Also the current faux naive 'I'm a lifelong Labour voter but ...' posts which are so obviously from people who have never voted Labour and are desperately trying to drum up interest in the Tories!

It’s become ridiculous! Someone comes on to ask for a dress to wear to a summer christening eg they say money is a bit tight….and someone comes along suggesting a dress that looks like the Big Top, costs £350 ‘I’d wear this with a chunky boot!’ Well, I wouldn’t, even if I had the £350 lingering in my hip pocket! It’s laughable!

Advising posters to contact the police about the most minor irritations. It's as though the police are a grown up equivalent of going to the head teacher in primary school.

Also people who ask here rather than googling something obvious.

Oh yes! Telling them to ‘pop a not through their door’ asking them not to park outside your door eg…it always sounds as if it’s come straight from the office of Perry Mason! All it needs is a red wax seal!

This. Especially when people use DD for dear daughter and dear dog and it gets all muddled. And say DH before describing how their partner is a psychopath.

a) male posters bullying female posters on relationships boards;
b) judgemental pile-ons, against women dealing with domestic violence, and,
c) people who know nothing about autism complaining it's a made up thing, that diagnoses are handed out like sweets to feckless parents looking for excuses, and autistic children need a 'firm hand' as they 'have to learn'.

The “how do people afford” threads
Especially when several of them are “I’m a SAHM, DH earns £25k a year, we have 9 children we can’t afford holidays but child-free BIL and SIL who’ve worked for 25 years in investment banking go skiing every year how do they do it?”
I just can’t go on them anymore…

The I've changed my name for this people.

The blatant hypocrisy and double standards.

Also people who put a question mark after a statement!

E.g. ‘I don’t know how to tell my friend this?’

Not to mention all the ‘friends’ people post about, who are clearly much more like acquaintances, and not very nice ones at that.

That grinds my gears too. I hate the casual ageism on Mumsnet that goes unacknowledged by the mods.

On the property threads there is so much vitriol against “boomers” and the word is definitely used as an insult.

Posters who ask for advice or recommendations then totally ignore people who reply in good faith because it's not exactly what they're looking for. No acknowledgement or thanks for their time.

I was on a thread recently where the OP asked for book recommendations then blanked every reply (over a long period of time) until someone came on with a much more highbrow, literary suggestion, to which they replied 'this is more like it' or something like that. Rude.