Aibu to think if you are going to post on a thread you should at least do the op the courtesy of reading and trying to take in what they have said?

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If you cba to read the whole thread, or skim it, or read the last page of posts to get the gist, or even just the op's updates (which are easily found) - am I BU to think you could at least read the thread title and op and try to take it all on board before you reply!

It's very annoying. Slightly less annoying, I think, than the handful of posters who go all Sherlock Holmes at the least opportunity- "you said in your first post you were eating crisps, op, then later on you said you'd been eating Pringles, what else have you lied about?"- but still irritating.

The dippy egg thread recently was a example of why you should read the full thread. About 10 posts about actual egg then is went into cumming in a moon cup.

I have been on a thread about this before and was told that those of us who had time to read full threads should get a life

SDTG why thank you for that and for you. I have learned and growed.

I need to find this frozen packed lunch thread now. Can anyone link it?

Glad I could help.

I recently had a frozen lunch thread but it's not the one you must be talking about. But im interested to read this other one if anyone can link it?

mrsdevere can you please link the frozen lunch thread? I had a small thread this week about the same thing , so I'd love to read the other one

well I think that you could manage perfectly well on £500 a week

Ginslinger Fri 19-Aug-16 10:49:09
well I think that you could manage perfectly well on £500 a week

OP: I agree.

I think it would be a courtesy to read all the OP's posts. I was shouted down for making that suggestion recently though

Yes!

All you have to do (I've done this on long threads) is hit ctrl+f on each page and type in the posters name. You don't even have to retype it most of the time, just hit 'enter'!

There was a thread recently where a poster explained in the first post that her only child had died, and at least one person asked about her children

I get that not everyone reads well, or has English as a fluent language, but there's way too many for that to be the excuse.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/2396366-to-think-this-is-a-perfectly-good-sized-lunch?pg=17

I don't know how to name the links but this is the frozen sandwiches thread. If this does not work I think it was page 4 or 3 I found it on, hilarious.

As a sidetrack could somebody please let me know how to link, thank you

There's a good one in classics where someone starts an OP pretty much as you have OP, and then everyone responds as if they haven't read the OP. Very funny, but don't know how to link!

Do you think a 'like' or 'agree' button would help? So that people can see the first poster who has offered a valuable opinion and agree/like it rather than just adding on the same sentiment again and again even when the thread has moved on?
(I am aware this has moved slightly to frozen lunches but hopefully I'm still on track!)

The like button has been debated to death on here and the consensus is 'no'.

I agree

If someone has pretty much made the point that I would have made then I don't see the point of submitting a post song the lines of, 'Yes, as pp have said I really think that blah blah blah bore off bore off bore off'. I think you can predict from the reading of the original post the ways that the replies will go anyway, even down to a rough guess of the percentages that will agree and disagree (if appropriate). Gets right on my tits that people think it necessary to re-write the same points.

There is a special place in Hell for anyone who types the words "Haven't RTFT but..."

Ok blue if posters not reading all posts is more common then the site has changed. I'm not for or against a 'like' button was just wondering if it may stop the constant 'cancel the cheque' chants that happen

Haven't RTFT but...

I'll update you from hell.

I used to be against the like button idea, but I am warming to it more and more. People really seem to want to have their say, even if they are just repeating again and again what has already been said before. Maybe a like button would reduce that?

Loved the frozen sandwiches thread! I remembered that I've read it before. Fenella was an absolute bloody star throughout that .

acasual I would hit the like button if there was one!

YABU, obviously I don't have time to read before I reply; I only have time to tell you to cancel the cheque!

Cancel the cheque!

But to be fair that thread is drip-feed central. It starts with 'Is this enough lunch for a 14 year-old?' and nothing more - a few pages in and he's got special needs and holds a knife to his throat if he doesn't get the cereal he wants!