Is it possible to follow MN netiquette and not drag up what a poster's said on another thread?

[AgentZigzag]

Out of general curiosity rather than about a specific poster/thread, but when you've read and can't help remembering, for example, a poster's extreme view on one thread, is it possible to keep that separate if you run into them on another thread as MN 'netiquette' suggests you should?

It's easy to remember a posters name when they've been kind or given good advice, so that shows some posters do remember each other and it's not all 'words on a screen' ([wee humphy face] ).

Maybe the netiquette's more to do with 'Think it all you like, just don't post it', but the nature of MN being an anonymous site with the majority a lot of gobby shites outspoken posters, makes it impossible to keep to the 'rule'?

AIBU?

And will the flaming you give me follow me from thread to thread for ever more? (please let it be so, it'd make me feel important)

Was it the bit about gobby shites that made you lose your train of thought by any chance Recursive?

What about the people who always seem to post opinions that are either inflammatory or go against the grain, but who are weirdly 'respected' by other posters?

Is the reason they're 'liked' nothing to do with their opinions and because of something else? Like them being vulnerable with RL problems, or because they can be kind and supportive, things which allows other posters to ignore their more outlandish views?

Does that make sense? Recursive?

yes I've thought that RB!!
I suppose as long as you can say "well I changed my mind" then you're OK
I read that thread about allowing the older DD to go to private school - I was sort of on the fence with a leaning towards both go or neither go when I read the OP. I then pretty much agreed wth the whole spectrum of views posted and climbed over the fence so many times! My opinion at any one time was coloured by the most recent majority and I could ahve easily completely contradicted myself, had I posted.

Hehe, I think I'm a bit like that Reindeer, and don't care either

See thats the problem I face all the time. I see threads and think one thing, then will later change my bloody mind.

But I'd have no problem with people pulling me on it (in a nice manner of course). I don't care either Zigzag, it just makes me a bit paranoid when I see threads like this

Looking like you're being hypocritical can depend on the circumstances posted in the OP though, no two are going to be the same and even a little difference, like the MIL being previously convicted of murder, could make the difference as to whether you think the OP is being unreasonable or not.

I can never remember what I've said previously never mind anyone else.

It's sweary name week or soemthing or other Maryz.

So you could NC too and be MaryzFuckers or summit.

MNHQ pmed a poster - can't remember who - and asked them to consider changing their NN to a non sweary name. Poster posted a thread about it and lots of Mners changed their NN in support to a sweary NN

YANBU! I don't unerstand why it's bad form to quote someone from a previous thread of theirs, or refer back to it - if they suddenly have opposing views on something or have changed their story they should be called on it. If you want privacy and anonymity then name change but if not (and if you a fickle hypocrite) then you have to expect people to hold you to account.

"But I'd have no problem with people pulling me on it (in a nice manner of course). "
That's funny, in 2006 you listed this exact thing in your top ten peeves

Stealthbear - please be accurate. It was actually in January 2007 ffs!

That's Cool Stealth

Or 2007!

Oh hello Maryz. Everyone's been looking for you. There have been people wandering around here like they've lost an arm or something.

Yup, I'm one of them. Started as Fussbucket, came out in sympathy as Fuckbucket, changed back, changed again and have been Bussfucket for a couple of days, and have now changed again in honour of Her Majesty (Gawd Bless Her)

Can we have some Official MN Jubilee Emoticons HQ?

sorry rather a lot of xposts there, this was meant to slot in after EatsBrainsandleaves last post.

If someone has strong views on something and then posts saying they think the opposite strong views a week later, that just suggests trolling wouldn't it? (If they weren't doing it in a general YABU/YANBU context of what they think?)

Agent, Unless they had changed their views? It si rare but I have seen posters chnage strong views part way through a thread e.g. in feminism

For me, it's not so much the change of views as we all do that over time

It's when someone get's shitty for example with a poster who might be at their wit's end with a tantrumming child.

If a poster got all holier than thou and said their child would never do X Y Z....but they'd posted a few weeks ago that they did just that...I'd have to say something.

And remember someone else outraged about something that someone else had done. Another poster suggested a very plausible reason that made the other person's actions reasonable and the OP suddenly went from outraged to - oh I hadn't thought of that

That's exactly what I mean Maryz

Etiquette or not I think it would make a mockery of the whole forum if no-one ever pulled people like that.