To wonder what other posters do that really annoy you?

[atthewelles]

For me it would probably be:

Not reading the OP properly and going off on a tangent
Pulling a thread totally OT in order to have a two way jokey conversation with someone else that goes on for pages and pages
Looking up someone's posting history and saying 'well on 5th April 2006 you said this and now you're saying that.

People who drip feed they have one, depressions, mental health issues, aspergers etc (or the children they are posting about) in their OP but decide to enlighten people after 3 pages of being told they are unreasonable.

Again it's emotional blackmail.

I can take any amount of small annoyances on a forum, as I am all for variety, the good and the bad, and none of it really bothers me to any noteable degree.
But I cannot, and will not accept emotional blackmail. It's lower than a snake's belly.

"no is a complete sentence" or whatever the saying seems to be.

Get orf, if any consolation I had to do a urine sample yesterday with a broken arm. Pissed all over my non broken one. Piss mistakes happen.

Bupcakes- nancy66 made me rage with her loose women teaser.

Oh the 'guess who I've just seen' threads, where there are pages and pages of random guesses to a pointless answer.
I can just picture the OP gleefully withholding information and it winds me up.

Yy Getorf .
I always think (lighthearted) in a thread title is really brave because I can't be the only one who opens it thinking
'really. This is going to be funny is it. is it!'

I too need paragraphs, or can't wade through.

It annoys me when people write really long posts about absolutely nothing or about whether they should gather up all the snails in their garden or just leave them to go feral then they don't use any punctuation or paragraphs and they just prattle on and on and on and on and it's really shot bloody boring and then go off on a tangent about whether recycling bins can be converted into outdoor toilets and then at the very, very end they say AIBU. It reminds me of the thread about giant mushrooms. Again.

Text speak. Poor grammar. Poor spelling.

Some of the begging threads over Christmas had some awful emotional blackmail in them.

One in particular was a disgrace

Sadly it worked though.

HighJinx I fricking hate that.

my mother/brother/dog is an emotionally abusive witch, can I come here and have a bit of a cry?
no, be grateful you have one, mine's dead

Sadly Getorf, (bold ) I think people have to put 'lighthearted' on MN now, as the po's will jump on anything to be offended.
Which is another thing that annoys me, the utter lack of any SOH at all, and people who report on the most lighthearted threads.
Some people will find offence at anything.

The rare but incredibly rude occurence of when a number of posters 'talk' over an obviously upset OP who they have disagreed with.

Usually done in a 'lighthearted' jokey way, talking about utterly irrelevant to the thread inane things. usually involving and

All laughy and silly.

Go and start a thread in chat if you want to 'chat'

It is so rude, belittling and just not nice.

I like bolding posters names though, much easier to find a reply to you when someone has bolded your name.

People that point out spelling and grammar errors.

Really Worra I never see those? Shame I missed it

Oh and people who call on MumsNetters to boycott certain stores for really wanky reasons...like they didn't have their favourite flavour of crisps that morning.

I think that the accepted method of dealing with "teaser" threads i.e "guess who I just saw?" should be ignore. Ignore the attention-seeking bastards. Then they will have to simper back to themselves "No-one cares that I saw Dean Gaffney at Walthamstow market? :(" HA!

Also "Nasty thread" Fuck. Off. Who said that all threads have to be about fairies and glitter and kittens?

I hate it when the OP includes faux-jokey barbed asides additional information that would, if typed out properly, make the OP look a snidey cow slightly petty, and probably affect the responses that follow. They usually occur in MIL posts, eg, 'would IBU to tell my interfering witch of a MIL darling MIL to stop boring us to death with her incessant ramblings about her cat Mr Parker phoning us once a week to ask if we're still alive have a chat?'

It's just so coy. If you want to say it, say it.

Lifeofpo

Totally agree with Amber. It really annoys me when a serious , thread is taken over by a group of mates etc

I also hate when a load of posters have told someone she is selfish, horrible etc and then a load more pile on simply to say 'OP you are an appallingly awful person' 'OP you sound like a fucking cunt' etc etc. There was a thread like this yesterday.

Yes, it's been said, the OP is probably mortified and wishes she'd never started the thread. Just drop it!

Waves at sillybeardydaddyman for his tolerance of the amount of annoying man hating shite that gets posted on hear!!!!

Crossed out, I mean. Additional information crossed out, as if it's under some Geneva Convention/Invisibility Cloak that means no one can challenge you on it.

Some of the begging threads over Christmas had some awful emotional blackmail in them. One in particular was a disgrace

Which one?

I have to be honest. When people do the emotional blackmail, I don't believe them. I thi is its usually just another way for them to try and prove they are reasonable.

Oh yes, 'Can I tell everybody to boycott this store because they forgot to send my milk on my online delivery'
Nope, I make my own judgements but ta very much for letting me know.

I don't like the "I haven't read the thread but" type posts. And my latest bugbear is the 'clutches pearls'. One of those phrases that was only mildly amusing the first time it was used.

I get quite stabby when posters say "I just asked my DH/DP what he thinks and he says XYZ"

WTF?

Fair enough if DH is a plumber and you are asking how to mend a leaking tap for example but about general stuff? Who gives a shit.