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?

Good Lord scottishmummy - you are an old gimmer now. Give it up!

I tend to pay attention to the personalities more, it sort of feels like getting to know someone, in a non-stalkerish way then I remember the experiences of the people I "know"
And being a Canuck, I almost always remember the Canadians, or those who make comments about Canada. We are funny that way, it is kind of like bird spotting

Cheerfulyank natural term breastfeeding is breastfeeding till LOs self wean. Natural term has come about rather than 'extended' breastfeeding (is that the phrase? Can't remember) which make it sound odd and out of the ordinary rather than perfectly natural and normal (if not usual).

There you go Lenin, I saved you boring anyone by repeating yourself there

Maybe we need one of those things like on facebook that analyses your statuses and tells you which words come up most often in your posts.

Mine would probably be 'Ctrl-Alt and the Up arrow'

OH! Makes much more sense now, never thought of it that way. Thanks :)