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Original poster

People that complain 'Don't bother, there was a recent thread about this'

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RequestUpgrade · 02/03/2015 21:43

So what if there was a recent thread. That was a different one! Geez, some people don't come on for months at a time. AFAIK Feeding has been a loop of the same damn topics for the last 9 years.

So why are posters so keen to leap onto a thread with snark about God-So-Been-Done-To-Deeeeaaaaath crap?

AIBU? Was there a recent thread about this?

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TheoriginalLEM · 02/03/2015 21:45

is this a taat???is it? eh????

ILovePud · 02/03/2015 21:45

I know, why bother opening the thread and why bother posting? Confused

BreconBeBuggered · 02/03/2015 21:49

Rule 1 is not to revive zombie threads without expecting a kicking. Rule 2 is to have been here long enough to have read everything that has ever been said here.

oldcroneat39 · 02/03/2015 21:50

It's failing the MN test. Clearly the poster in that situation has failed to read and memorise every thread and must be chastised for their lack of commitment. Wink

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RequestUpgrade · 02/03/2015 21:54

Complete fail. I mean, why be here at all if you aren't here 24/7?

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Altinkum · 02/03/2015 21:56

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RocketInMyPocket · 02/03/2015 21:57

God Did you not see this has been done, back on 12th of December, 2009 at 17:32:26

SpinDoctorOfAethelred · 02/03/2015 21:58

Been done. Check the archives.

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RequestUpgrade · 02/03/2015 21:58

Gah, I'm not having a search. I'm having an evening on Mumsnet. I don't actually have to read previous topics. I can create my own and people who aren't sick of it can post here. People who are sick of it can go elsewhere.

It's the 'God, your so not up to speed, are you?' smugness that grates.

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RequestUpgrade · 02/03/2015 21:59

Er, btw, I did get the irony , just so's y'know Grin...

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ClumsyNinja · 02/03/2015 22:00

Not just snarky but personal in-jokes too.
It's like boarding school but without any of the fun!

Callooh · 02/03/2015 22:01

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bumbleymummy · 02/03/2015 22:06

Yeah, it's a bit strange. If you were only allowed to post about a subject once MN would die off pretty quickly! :)

SpinDoctorOfAethelred · 02/03/2015 22:06

Can someone let me in on it?! Private in-jokes are the best.

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RequestUpgrade · 02/03/2015 22:11

Spin, be in this in-joke! OK, I don't have one yet, but I'll try and think of a one-thread-only-expires-tonight in-joke.

And then we can all do it again under different names tomorrow night, without contriving a sense of cliqueyness.

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Topseyt · 02/03/2015 22:13

I have never really understood this apparent aversion to the so-called "zombie threads".

Other websites I have used encouraged searching first to see if relevant advice may available from past threads before starting new ones.

As for "done to death", yes, I have seen that and had it myself. It is very rude. If you say something has been "done to death" you are effectively telling the poster that their question, which to them is reasonable, is boring and that answering it is beneath you.

So what if it has discussed before! What is wrong with someone else having questions, even if they are broadly similar. They should not be belittled for it.

DixieNormas · 02/03/2015 22:17

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usualsuspect333 · 02/03/2015 22:21

Not this again.

ILovePud · 02/03/2015 22:22

I can understand people posting if they don't like the thread subject, it's when people bother posting on a thread just to say that they are indifferent or bored by a subject that I feel confused. Life is too short.

MetallicBeige · 02/03/2015 22:24

I am trying hard to think of something original to say but it just makes me want to start a thread about p&c spaces, just to watch people's heads blow off. Grin

Disclaimer - am too lazy to start threads, too much maintenance, well I say that but mine are one post wonders generally.
So hypothetically too much maintenance with everybody replying and millions of posts and all that, then I've got to think of something to say back that's witty and interesting otherwise it's all "where's the op?" Hmm-y faces, just too hard.

Hassled · 02/03/2015 22:25

A billion years ago, back when it was all fields etc, I had the audacity to start a thread about smart yet waterproof coats with a hood. Apparently it had been done before, and I was told so, many times. I thought "you bunch of cows" and vowed never to do the same to anyone else. For someone who is a newish nervousish poster it's a real "don't interrupt the important people with your silly questions" response, and it's horrible.

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RequestUpgrade · 02/03/2015 22:30

Hassled, ROFL. That is brilliant. How could the coat/waterproof/hood threads of 2012 have passed you by?!

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RequestUpgrade · 02/03/2015 22:31

Apologies, if you've been hear since 2002. I realise that's important. Grin

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RequestUpgrade · 02/03/2015 22:32

[Quite tempted to keep going with the terrible grammar (you're, here, etc).]

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Mintyy · 02/03/2015 22:35

If there has been a recent thread or threads about something very specific, I will often link it, just incase it is of interest to the op.

But ... I feel I must ask ... is it time to just ban outright any further smelly washing machine threads? I would bet there are 100 archived on here at this very moment.