Annoying things other posters do

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Just wondering what things other posters do that really annoy you?

For me it's the deliberate misconstruing of an opening post and then flaming the OP for something they never actually said or implied.

Also the posters who conjure up wild scenarios to try and prove the OP is BU - "How do you know the woman who pushed you out of the way at the bus stop wasn't rushing home to her seriously ill child and has only 2p in her purse so couldn't afford a taxi. Try to be kinder and less self absorbed in future".

I am sooo guilty of not reading the full thread. Trying to get better though

Me too although I also try to read the OPs posts. Not reading the full thread totally bit me in the ass last week so I'm trying much harder.

oh and laughing at 'light hearted' 'I'm posting as my cat/dog/baby' type threads - fucking inane shit - don't encourage it

Oh? I like these if they are done well, so I'll go ahead and encourage it.

Be your cats and dogs people

@DoJo I'm always surprised that posters will rock up on a thread that's clearly about a popular celebrity just to post that they have no idea who they are.

I know someone who does this in real life (and I think she's a MNer so hi!). She really seems to think that if she pretends not to know anything about people in popular culture that we'll all think she's some super highbrow intellectual.

(I don't mean obsessive stalkerfan level, I just mean being aware of the name of a celebrity in the current news, or a popular TV show etc)

Anything written with strikethrough.

My husband ran off with the au pair, the dog died, I have cancer

“ have a cup of hot sweet tea “

Ah, right , that’ll work.

ALL BLOODY BABY NAME THREADS

but in particular when people ask “ what name goes with “ an existing kid.

Who cares?

Strike through. People seem to think it's so clever.

Shoe horning anything into AIBU for traffic.

When posters don't just answer what you want to know, for example:
Poster: 'I'm looking for a cleaning fluid for my son's toilet'
Answer: 'Why don't you get your son to clean it?'
That's not actually what I asked, unless complete clarity is required, i.e.
Poster: 'I'm looking for a cleaning fluid to clean a toilet'

Weight loss threads where people describe everything they ate that day.

I’m fat and it is just this sort of mindset that keeps me fat.

Ilovesooty couldn’t agree more - sometimes mumsnet is one big AIBU

Sometimes mumsnet is one big AIBU

OP : "My husband kissed me on the cheek without asking"

MN : "You do realise that's rape"

users who insult you because they are unhappy in thier own lives so troll online to nbring others down then get other followers to join their bullying train

The open letters to someone who will never see it. Dear OW, dear woman who sneered at me when my children were having a tantrum in Tesco..

They'll never see it. It's just attention seeking. And then you get 'the OP just wants to vent'; well don't. It's just attention seeking. You can vent to your friends or write it down and throw it away. You don't need strangers on the internet to validate you. If you don't want a solution or there is no solution - you just want attention. What did people do before the internet?

Those that think MN is anything other than an anonymous internet forum and think it's important in some way. A safe place or somewhere people should be supported.

It isn't. It's an internet forum. With lots of trolls as any forum. Some people are honest but some aren't. It isn't an emergency service or a support line or a safe place. You don't own it, you don't pay for it, you don't get to demand how it's run.

You can be here or not but it isn't your safe place or a community or somewhere that someone should expect to be supported when many people don't agree with them or their views.

Strike through is funny!

Why on earth would anybody object to a big punctuation-ish feature??

People who come on to a thread just to bleat that all women/mothers should support each other and that by criticising a woman you are somehow letting the sisterhood down. It's just another way of shutting down a debate and besides, not all posters are mothers or even women, so nit actually relevant.

When posters find the most unlikely angle on what the op meant, then berate her for it.

“I’m having a girls night out this Friday and need suggestions”

“Are you not a women OP?”

Agree on strike through. It's really overused so even if it were funny to begin with it's not any more.

Threads were people ask about a perfectly normal dilema and are berated for owning a home, having a mortgage and being able to put food on the table, x100 if you do the above whilst living in London.
The phrase"first world problem". Almost every problem on mumsnet is,by definition, a first world problem.

Ghost my user name says I'm a man and where my gender is relevant I state it.

Leggere Agreed, the term Mansplaining is used to shut men down from a conversation. I originally chose a gender neutral username so that I could comment without my gender being thrown at me but I can't be bothered to change it every time.

People who act as gatekeepers on certain topics or in certain sections, shutting down dissenters.

Organised replies between posters in order to control a 'debate'.

Phrases used to dismiss other posters as irrelevant.

"Agreed, the term Mansplaining is used to shut men down from a conversation."

In my experience the term 'Mansplaining" is used to shut down mansplaining.

The assumption that re-training/changing career is possible for everyone.
The assumption that moving house or leaving a relationship is easily done.
Troll hunting!! The posts and subsequent deletions have ruined many interesting discussions.
'If this actually happened...'
'It must be exhausting being offended at every little thing...'

Using the phrase 'perpetually offended' on anyone who disagrees with them. I have a different opinion to you, but that doesn't make me perpetually anything, actually