How many times you can repeat your experiences/opinions on MN before becoming a frightful bore?

[AgentZigzag]

I hate it when you have, say, a bit of great news and excitedly tell someone, only for them to tell you you've already said.

Or worse, when you tell someone and they're all suprised and excited for you, and you remember later you'd already told them and they'd been pretending to save you the embarrassment

Obviously some general advice on MN on things like physical abuse are pretty universal, and it can be helpful to post something that's happened to you lots of times if it helped an OP out of a difficult situation.

But I saw an OP a bit back being told by a poster that she (the OP) had asked a similar kind of question about 4 years previously

The OP was a bit taken aback, but the other person had some kind of freaky photographic memory rather than being a rampant stalker.

Even though most posters don't notice MN names (which I don't believe ) and there are squillions of us on here (disregarding the MNHQ personas ), it's not the first time I've seen somebody being picked up for repeating themselves.

So how many times can you post the same experience/opinion before you're considered banging on?

annie me too. I can be relied upon to turn up on certain threads and be witty and informative bore everyone

LeQ thats nothing - my OH lost a tank once.

Since I have a terrible memory, it doesn't bother me if someone posts their story or experience more than once.

I copied and saved a post about how to get little tikes who don't want to go to sleep at bedtime for future reference Cointreau.

I wish I'd saved their name to give them the credit now, it was a bloody good post for when I can be arsed to sort her bedtime routine out.

It's not a bad thing to get a name for yourself talking about Annie, even if you've no memory of the other times

I don't mind people repeating themselves but I do get frustrated with people who post the same problems over and over again over the years then ignore all the advice, argue with the people who tried to help them last time, continue with the same failing methods and then post again saying 'what am I doing wrong?' and around and around it goes, it is like they think everyone will have forgotten about their last post on exactly the same subject under exactly the same user name.

Yes, Morloth. I think those are the only situations I have commented on previous posts.

I do have some stuff (along the crappy life experiences lines) that I repeat a lot just because I know I need to hear it when I was at the "help what do I do?!" stage. But it has been more or less slimmed down to "go and have some therapy, it will make you cry but you'll feel better afterwards, honestly."

But, being honest like iscream, my memory is a pile of shit. I quite like that on MN people dont generally notice if you tell the same story a few times!

Some problems don't have a solution I suppose Morloth, or at least one that the OP can live with.

An exception has to be made though for anyone struggling with some emotional turmoil.

I know in RL a person can say the same things again and again over years to try to get to grips with a trauma they've experienced in their life.

If that's the case I can bear it because they've had to live it and the least I can do is listen to them.

Over the last week, I've twice found myself repeating something IN RL. There's so much repeating oneself on MN that the habit is creeping up on me outside of these hallowed Delft-themed corridors and coulisses....

I'm always blathering on about the same old shite. That's why I namechange.

I've just said 'hairy armpits are revolting' for the 7th time - but as I've now hidden the resisting femininity thread, I will never say it again.

Isn't repeating the same old stuff ad infinitum and hoping for a different response one of the definitions of madness ?

< has no room to talk >

Way to bring down a jokey thread there.

Did I ever tell you about that time Shane from Westlife was rude to me? That never gets old.

tell again, BOF, I know you are not mad

funny stories always bear another telling

dd2 met Chilean miner 24 - I've only said that twice ( 3 times now )

yeah, then I can tell the tale of when Bet Lynch's son tried to get off with me

kills thread

was he nice, carmina ?

was he one of the good looking ones ?

(well, as good looking as it gets after all those months down a mine)

He was lovely actually - couldn't speak English but was utterly charming, he was here doing talks on religion (dd2 b/f is the son of a vicar ) & told of how the miners clung to their faith and how they're convinced God helped them survive.