You do not need to quote the opening post.

[TimeAtTheBar]

It makes it terribly irritating to read threads.

Please stop. Particularly when it’s a long op and you then have to scroll past it several times to read the replies.

Stop abusing the already annoying ‘quote’ feature.

Ta muchly.

Noted.

But if you want to part-quote then part-quote. (Copy/paste/bold or italics). Don't quote the whole OP!

This drives me mad! It’s irritating, and stupid - there’s absolutely no valid reason to quote the OP as WE ALREADY KNOW THAT’S WHAT THE DISCUSSION PERTAINS TO!!

Now I’ll have to sit in a dark corner and breathe until I calm down again.

You've misunderstood.
The complaint is about posters who are clearly just replying to the original post.

The assumption on a thread is this is what everyone is doing so there's no need to repeat the original post to confirm this.

The quote function is designed for when you are responding to something else e.g. either a later post by the person who started the thread, or a different poster. You then use the quote function to make it clear that you are responding to something other than the original post.

It's the real life equivalent of being D in this scenario:

A: What time is everyone getting to the party tonight
B: about 10
C: will be a bit later, maybe half ten
D: A, you asked what time I will be getting to the party? My train arrives at 10.15.

There's no need to repeat the question when answering!

Too much effort.

And then you have to scroll up to find out the person being quoted and see what else they said.

Wouldn't be an issue if we had proper quoting functions

Do people really not understand what ‘OP’ means??

I don’t think there’s any need to quote the op but I disagree that the quote function is annoying. I like it, it’s useful.

Do you see a lot of people quoting the op? I basically never see it at all to be honest!

I’ll use MN any way I fucking way I choose.

OK, I've stopped now.

It’s a bit early here in the UK but 🍷for everyone severely affected by this major issue.

Thank you @Sparklingbrook I’m going to fucking well need it!!

I hate this too.

Have two 🍷🍷 😂

But I like doing it

Since the update I've seen so many "were you directing that at me?" posts where someone is trying to reply to a comment, but the quoting is all screwed up, or not clear or whatever (I haven't quite worked it out).

It's unnecessary and it's mildly irritating. But as with so much in life, it's one of those things where complaining about it turns you into the annoying nitpicking one.

Who cares?

I find the mumsnet police like you more annoying. Why do you get to dictate?

Perhaps Mumsnet need to disable the quote feature for the original post?

I agree, it is very annoying and pointless.

Genius, @RainbowsMoonbeams !!

⭐️

Please do that, MNHQ.

I find a lot of things about MN annoying but this ‘issue’ isn’t even in my top ten.

I've used MN for the best part of two decades. I've never, ever been confused by posters replying to the op without quoting. It's painfully, stark-staring obvious they're replying to the op unless they state otherwise. Quoting the op seems like a complete and utter, irritating waste of time.

Yes! This with bells on.

Is there a reason MN haven’t disabled being able to quote the OP? There’s been quite a few whiny threads about it since the function was introduced.

Ok

I'll quote if I want to and will not be dictated to by the Mn. Police