To think that NOT RTFT

[PanicAndRun]

...should be a breach of guidelines?

Mostly it can be amusing or eye roll worthy when someone barges in a few pages later without reading more than the OP, and even that is questionable sometimes. Some replies seem based on just the title .

But there have been several threads lately that were quite sensitive , with the posters in dangerous situations,vulnerable,at risk or just in a very emotional state.

And posters kept showing up without RTFT , any of OP's comments or updates and just sticking the boot in and having a go at OP again and again based on a quarter of the information.

If people have form for this and do it repeatedly I think it should count as breaking guidelines, then maybe people wouldn't be so callous and lazy.

lol yes, or:

"well I have X medical condition and I still flew, I think you should fly, its fine"

Like, really? Firstly, your medical condition is nothing like the OPs. Secondly, as if the OP is going to take the advice of an unqualified internet stranger over her own doctor.

face palm

On a serious thread, if someone can’t be arsed to do things properly, they shouldn’t post.

I think this sums it up nicely.

I have OPs posts highlighted purple and the full thread on one long page, so can scroll quickly and read only OPs posts. Unless they’re one of those who log out after posting op, forget their details and re-register with a different name

If someone sees a post that has 300/600/whatever replies and doesn’t bother reading just OPs replies even, but still feels entitled to chip in their worthless thoughts, they should be on read-only for three days.

Yep. It's incredibly arrogant to assume your reply is so amazing that none of the previous posts could possibly better it.

The worst are the people who try to justify it by saying ‘You can’t expect me to read 15 pages of this! I do have a job and a life you know!’ Yet apparently it’s fine for THEM to make the thread even longer with information that’s even more likely to be irrelevant because they have no proper context. Why is what they have to say so bloody important that someone else should read all the way to page 15 to see it?

I saw this on a thread where the OP had concerns about her dc. She didn't help matters by adding a slightly misleading title - in that there was a lot more to worry about than just the part she put in the title - but anyone actually reading the OP's subsequent posts would have seen that. Some posters clearly couldn't be bothered and when they were pulled up on it, stated that they would post how they wanted to. Which is fair enough, we have the right to do that unless breaking talk guidelines... I thought, "Yes, but now you look such a chump." Obviously, they don't care how stupid and arrogant they look, as long as they've had their say. (Their opinion is often not worth the pixels either, unsurprisingly.)

One of the things I love about this site is the chance to read so many different opinions. My outlook has definitely broadened and I am far more tolerant than I was, simply through reading through myriad posts and considering so many varying angles to a situation. It has been marvellous and eye-opening. Reading the threads is the point of being here to me, not adding my own opinion. Mostly I don't bother as I have nothing to add that hasn't been said already.

(And I'd like MN to lock old threads so they can't be posted on again, although that would mean waving goodbye to the carpet fitters thread!)

I thought, "Yes, but now you look such a chump

Ive wondered this too. Its bizarre how people stubbornly refuse to change their advice after being specifically told why their advice is useless and not applicable. It IS almost like they'd rather have their say no matter how dumb it is and how stupid it makes them look rather than admit they were wrong.

I went on Twitter and noticed that you can chose to only view inoffensive tweets (was looking at an MPs Twitter account). You had to click a link to see all the tweets including the ones that might be rude/offensive. Would something like that work? No idea how the algorithm is written but presumably Mumsnet has the IT capabilities.