To want a word limit on thread OPs?

[PersonaNonGarter]

Lonnnnnnggg OPs should be marked in AIBU so I don’t have to click on them.

Posters wanging on about their colleague doing something (half a page, no paragraphs) ‘and so today I saw on her sister’s Facebook page that’...

Or someone who wants a lengthy ‘debate’ about Politics and writes screeds and screeds.

It’s a chat forum. Chat. Make it fucking snappy, people. Everyone’s busy, yo.

@GinDaddy, I heard that in a New Yorker accent when you said it, still with clicking fingers in front of face though .

OP you sound like the stereotype of an insufferable City sassy lawyer who talks in cliches. I'd rather read eight paragraphs of emotional venting from what you folk call a "hun", then have to peruse posts with this Mean Girls schtick

I think the OP was trying to add a bit of humour to the point they were making. It made me laugh anyway.

Touch a nerve with you eh?

@AutumnRose1 you definitely can post paragraphs from the app

Indifferent on this but what I do hate are posts like, 'someones staying over my house and is doing something I dont like, what should I do?' or 'theres a woman at my work and she spoke to me in a mean way, what should I do?'. Yawn. Be a grown up.

For what its worth, I enjoyed your snappy comment.

@NoSauce

What "nerve" would it touch with me?! I'm not the subject of the OP's post

Well something pissed on your cornflakes. That was some rant.

YABU. I like a long, detailed OP as long as it's been set out in paragraphs.

If an OP doesn't interest me, for whatever reason, I just click back off the thread.

I agree and really don't get why characters in the story are given names.

What is the obsession with/fear of drip feeding?

I can understand it - if the OP comes back to expand on a point, it's often met with 'that's one hell of a drip feed!' and similar comments.

This is sometimes unfair, as when you are starting a thread looking for advice, it might not be obvious to you what parts of your situation will be seen as relevant and picked up on - if it was obvious, you probably wouldn't need to be asking for advice. So I can see why some posters include exhaustive detail in the OP.

Is it too late to add a AIBU vote button?

My negativity towards long posts is mirrored by good will towards short ones.

Extra gold stars to anyone who bullet points their relationship posts.

@onanothertrain I always think the names people come up with are really funny. I once saw someone write about X situation 'we'll call the person Peter (because that was his name)'. I laughed a lot at that.

I hate the threads with “ I have 20 friends, let’s called them Jim Pat Lou Karen Doris Nathan etc etc HATE them. Have to keep referring to the first post to check who’s who and then give up.

@macmustard or "has a really bespoke hobby - think naked finger painting)"
Well is it naked finger painting or not? Because if it is, just say so, and if it's not, let me make up my own bespoke hobby!

I think ridiculous that someone would make a thread complaining about this. It’s not as if you are tied down and forced to read them! If I click on a thread and it’s overly long/ungrammatical/boring I exit and move on. Once in a while a long thread will grip me and I will be interested in the detail and context provided.

MN isn’t just about providing an interesting read, it’s also about providing an anomymous outlet for people to talk about what troubles them. Sometimes just writing down what is bothering us can be therapeutic. If someone feels they are in crisis and can’t talk to anyone IRL MN can be a lifeline. People shouldn’t feel forced to reduce their situation and emotions to a few snappy lines.

Haha your last paragraph made me laugh OP. A bit of a shame you had t bang on in with the other 3 though

What is the obsession with/fear of drip feeding? confused Never really understand that. It’s just a bit like real conversation.

Because people on here get irrationally nasty about "drip feeds".

As a lawyer, how the fuck do you cope with all those long dull documents?

Sometimes the post needs the detail. Sometimes people just can't condense what they need to say. Sometimes people can't just return every 2 minutes to make a "conversation", they want to lay it all out there and come back later to see what people think.

All of those are OK things to do.

A forum isn't for twitter-esque chat, it's for people to share views, experience and opinions and often these can't be jammed into one or two snappy sentences.

See something too detailed for you? Then move on. I do it frequently when I endlessly scroll through blocks of text of confusing post, too many names, or it's just too much in general. I think "no fuck that" in my head and move on. Not for me doesn't me not for everyone. That person has as much right to express themselves as I do.

YABU to want to impose a limit to the length of a post.

I think all threads should be started with a haiku, eg:

Mother-in-law rude,
So I say cheeky fucker;
Am I right or wrong?

@zxcvhjkl was that response so long intentionally? Chuck a couple more adjectives in there next time for a bit more depth

At least you used paragraphs!

Well I'm generally not keen on the long ones and usually skip them! But every now and then I get sucked into one that really seems to need to be long! and I wouldn't have wanted to be shorter.

Yabu :)

Just click away again if it looks too wordy for you. Takes about half a second!

Sometimes people need to get something off their chest. Sometimes they don’t want to drip feed.

To be fair most people browsing mumsnet are probably not in a massive hurry to be doing something else.

@amithough guilty as charged but disappointed I added paragraphs what was I thinking!

Both short and elaborate posts can miss the crucial point and drip feed. Leading to 92763738292754 posters asking the same bloody thing.
You know who you are!

P.S the irony isn't lost on me 😂