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)

I wonder about stock responses too.

I think there are a few posters who are quite well read about things like relationships and women's rights etc.

But some of them come across as a bit 'robotic' in the sense they're so 'text book' in their replies, they forget to apply/adapt their response to the actual poster and what they've posted about their personal circumstance, so there's no 'human touch' IYSWIM.

That might be a bit too specific MsP, some people might recognise the poster from that description.

Although I know it's what the thread's about, I didn't mean for it to make any specific posters feel uncomfortable.

Oh dear think I broke MN rules a while ago then as I did this

But it was so annoying, poster asking if she could get CSA to take money from ex from savings as he'd lost his job and she was on the breadline, but on another thread on about her villa in some hot country.

Am I not allowed to do that?

ZigZag - The pigeon was called Paul and that was one of the funniest threads I'd read in ages, I couldn't breathe for laughing!

I don't remember what people have said (unless very extreme or a constant theme), but I remember the names of the few posters I don't like.

And the lots that I do, of course.

Am I on the list hully?

And followed by 4 other posters who all say - Am I on the list Hully?

Hully you were the first poster who I began to recognise her NN because you are funny and I always appreciate a laugh on here

Hello darling Maryz, I have missed you. Dunno wot ol Paggy's up to - she's being wilfully errant. We must hunt her down.

No Stealth, not anyone here! Didn't mean to provoke questions, just meant I can't remember details to carry from thread to thread, just see a name and thing hmmmmm.

Thank you Eats. Larfs is tres necessaire. As dear Thomas said, Happiness is but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

So troo and poignant.

Lots of peeps have not been about. It's not right. One hardly knows where one is.

Pagwatch was about a few days ago I think

Pinots definately been around due to all the abandoned Kitten threads!

And I have seen Stratters around. Maryz, I think it is you who hasn't been around to see these posters?

I don't remember what people have said (unless very extreme or a constant theme), but I remember the names of the few posters I don't like.

Yes, I am the same. I like many people, some are boring and don't figure on my radar at all, but the ones who really get on my tits are the Single Agenda posters.

And the ones who refuse to ever see the humour in anything if they can find even a tiny hand-wringing angle.

I am here. Just laptopless, and having to swipe DDs computer whenever I can. Posting from phone is just too much like hard work, unless I'm in the bath.

i enjoy a good ruckus if that means breaking some rules so be it though i not very good when i am in them myself i start to flap unless it is a certain prat who defends lapdancing over and over again and only seems to pop up on those threads then i can go on and on for hours

i like to play devils advocate at times too, just to annoy someone who has bugged me sometimes i remember them other times i don't

just thought that person who pops up on lapdancing threads could by anyone here playing the da

"I really dont Why people hide threads - why get so upset you have to hide something?"

Sometimes something hits a very personal nerve, and sometimes it's a subject I feel strongly about but know it'll just be a bunfight. I hide those in order to save me from myself really.

Fair enough empusa - interesting name by the way, does it mean something?

The nature of mn is such that some threads het very polarised very quickly. The middle ground , the natural home for most of us, dissolves. It's easy to find yourself in a particular camp passionatelydefending that position ,when really you'd be a bit less partisan.
I can imagine a tea v coffee thread being a prime example and the gasps of dismay and troll accusations if a tea fancier reveals, at a later.date, a perfectly reasonable morning coffee habit.

I'd hide the tea v coffee type threads as I'd end up arguing with myself :o

"Fair enough empusa - interesting name by the way, does it mean something?"

Empusa was a Greek demigoddess and companion to the Goddess of witchcraft, and also a character in Stardust. I love Greek mythology, I'm Pagan and I love Neil Gaiman, so it seemed perfect for me :)