Re Placemarking

[motherducker]

Why can't people use the "watch thread" tool instead?
It's quite annoying.
AIBU?

Because they're lazy and annoying!!

Doesn't seem to bloody work from my phone app .....

It's annoying when it's someone going through a traumatic time and obviously need support, then along come the place markers like they are watching a soap opera.

Yeah but if you just watch it you miss out on the deletion message if there is one, it just vanishes.

Yeah, it's because the watch thread and bookmarking functions mean you don't know what happens if the thread suddenly disappears. If you've posted on it, you see the deletion message.

Oh I see. Well they could at least try and think of something interesting to say.

If the thread disappears it can only be one of two reasons really. Troll or deleted at posters request. Not sure why seeing the deletion message is so important. Bookmark or say something IMO.

There was a thread last week

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/2706366-what-is-it-with-the-place-marking-frenzy?

Meant to say Watch and Bookmark.

Cos the deletion message is often insightful and or amusing 😄

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The ideal would be that Watched threads still appeared on the Watch list after deletion I guess.

Would save on all the follow up 'What happened to the thread' threads that usually start when a PBP/troll has been found out and deleted.

manic

You can bookmark without placemarking!

*How does it actually annoy you?

Surely you just skip past to the next comment?*

It's boring reading rows and rows of "placemarking" and it also fills up the thread quicker than necessary.

Necessary?
Should threads just be efficient then?

i hardly do it myself, but I like the place marking posts.

Ooh I've upset you a few times then! Didn't realise it was an annoying thing to do...
Sometimes I find a thread really informative but have nothing useful to add, so I place mark.

Place marking (never, ever done it before.....but kind of felt I needed to)

I agree OP.

You can Bookmark and you can Watch.

How difficult is it?

I'm with you OP.

The rows of placemarking tend to happen on threads where people just want to know what happens at the end. Husbands going missing, long running parking threads, that sort of stuff.

It just fills the thread up to 1000 quicker.