To wish people would RTFT!!!!!!!

[saraclara]

I belong to other forums, but none are as bad as MN for posters not reading the thread. I know that some threads can be very long, but at least scroll through quickly and check for updates from the OP. It's easy enough when they're all colour highlighted.

And what's with people who come on and say "I haven't read the thread but...(insert stupid question that's been answered ten times, or a point that's been made 100 times)"

Do people actually want to look stupid? I don't get it.

Oh, and when the OP has already realised they're being unreasonable (five pages back) and accepted every point graciously, you look a complete bitch when you rant at them for being a terrible person.

Not rtft is presumably why people continue posting on a thread that the OP abandoned 3 days ago.

I never know how to take that and checked back on here to make sure this wasn't a resuscitated zombie thread.

I don't know about not posting on a thread just because the OP's disappeared. Sometimes issues are raised that posters are still invested in and wish to continue to discuss. Sometimes, as with the parmesan thread I mentioned, for me there's a compulsion to see how it pans out, plus some amusement and, occasionally, a break out of frustration when people are being obtuse. That's just me though.
After all, I'm not the boss of Mumsnet (adjusts crown).

And don't too much.
The wind might change....

It's just another opinion. You can read it or ignore and move on. No big deal.

Its a pretty usless opinion if things have changed for the op and your 'opinion' is 4 days too late and no longer applies.

It's pretty easy to use the desktop site and highlight the ops posts and just read them before you post. If you cant be bothered to read what exactly is going on and ops responses then why bother posting something completely wrong or irrelevant? Or worse still pile into a poster who needs support and advice not a kicking over something that didnt actually happen.