...to hate when people don't quote the people they're replying to?

[aIways]

I guess IABU as I bloody hate these kinds of threads usually - I really don't give a shit if people say hubby on MN or have shit grammar or whatever. I just scroll past if somebody posts something that's annoying or rude or whatever and enjoy reading the telling off they get from other posters.

But when you have an interesting thread full of people @ing usernames to reply, instead of quoting and bolding the words that they're actually replying to.

Why?!?

I wanna know the drama. I'm interested in what you're saying. If you say 'are you fucking joking @user1234? That is the most outrageous thing I've ever seen in 33 years on MN. Have my first you absolute wanker', I obviously want to refer back to what user1234 said. But then I have to scroll back through 100 comments to find it (and then when user1234 has said something like 'I really don't think Tom Hardy is that attractive', I can't believe I've wasted three minutes of my life searching for the cause of the outrage to find out it's that).

AMAs are the worst. I find some of them so interesting but if I have to scroll through millions of comments to find out which question you're actually answering, it's hardly ever worth the effort.

It's like one of those huge choose your own story books as a kid where it tells you to go to page 4 if you choose to board the UFO or whatever, you finally find page 4 and it tells you you were bloody dreaming the whole time. x1000

I know, I know, people can use MN how they want. But this has annoyed me for years and I'm massively sleep deprived and have never seen a thread moaning about this before (unlike poor bloody grammar or people not reading the full thread, which I think is loads less annoying than this issue).

AIBU? Does this not get on anybody else's wick?

Disclaimer before the 'I wish my life was as stress free as to worry about this' brigade descends: This thread is more lighthearted than it sounds, I'm possibly using it as an outlet for the rage I feel about a million more other pressing issues in my life

The thing on the top of my list, is people not correctly tagging someone.

It needs an @.

Then needs the taggee's full actual username.

Otherwise I don't get an email notification that someone is talking to me, and I don't return to the thread. Because there's been so very few threads I'm interested enough in, to return to, and when I do I just check the current last page to see if there's any update worth searching back for.

So when people try for example, @Anarchy - that's not getting my attention.

When they try Anarchy or Anarchyshake - that's also not getting my attention.

Maybe they aren’t that fussed Anarchy? I just assume if people are interested they’ll continue reading the thread. I don’t check my email for alerts for my name so doesn’t occur to me that others do.

@Alsohuman

I try that constantly. The only text that shows Select All is my own, it doesn’t work on other people’s posts.

Is this on the app? I’d alert MNHQ to this, it sounds like a glitch.

I suspect it’s me!

YANBU, OP. The cunts.

But it would be useful if people could just click reply, have the relevant post appear highlighted in your replying post, and then you could type your response and it appear as normal.

I’ve been on forums that have that, and the pages just get SO LONG, with posts containing copies of another post. It turns into a total scroll-fest as you have to keep zooming past yet another copy of the same post.

Decently built forums limit the amount of quoting you can keep in a reply so that’s easily dealt with

YANBU, it annoys me as well. It is especially annoying when the OP does a reply like that for every single post.

@Alsohuman - have you got “Speak Selection” enabled on your iPad? If so, turn that off and then try.

claimer before the 'I wish my life was as stress free as to worry about this' brigade descends: This thread is more lighthearted than it sounds, I'm possibly using it as an outlet for the rage I feel about a million more other pressing issues in my life grin"
Is this OK? :o
Anyway you'll regret that op. I started a light hearted thread the other day and regretted it when I got told I

Is it rite

I thought it was just me 🤔. I'm glad I'm not the only one who can't remember who says what. I waste far too much time scrolling, only to find its not an interesting enough reason to have scrolled back 👀

I can just about copy and paste comments, but I can't make it bold.

This forum is so basic, it really is time MN spent some money on it. I am on small specialist forums which are streets ahead of this one techie wise.

Agreed justasking- it’s worse than the first forum is started using in 2003

This forum is so basic, it really is time MN spent some money on it. I am on small specialist forums which are streets ahead of this one techie wise. Yay, I'm just seeing if I can copy and paste.

@HasThisSoddingNameGoneToo, thank you so much for trying to help me. Speech Selection has never been enabled. I think l’m just a fuckwit!

TabbyMunz
To bold on the app just hold your finger on the blank post and the options to bold, underline or italicise should come up.

Ok, that didn't work

To bold things, you just put an asterisk before the first word and after the last word.

Like this.

Holding, italics and strike through often inexplicably don’t work on iPhone even though it’s clear from the instructions in the reply box how to do it. It’s just totally unreliable

I'm guilty of this!

Will have a go at it now I've been given instructions

@Alsohuman You’re notca fuvkwit. And I’m now hopelessly invested in helping you.

Are you using the app, or Safari?

Not a fuckwit, I mean!

Thank you 😊. I’m using Safari.

When you click the very top left-hand corner of the address bar (next to the name of the webpage) do you see four lines? If you do, click them. Then try.