People who 'quote' the OPs first post on a thread

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PlimplePlop · 03/11/2023 14:35

Why? Please please stop. Thank you.

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ThinWomansBrain · 03/11/2023 18:54

Irritating.
Especially when the OP is a bloody essay.
Its getting to the point where I tend to assume that these super long OP's are AI generated tosh.

Passepartoute · 03/11/2023 18:55

Neriah · 03/11/2023 17:26

What, you mean like this?

Personally I find it more irritating that people think they make the rules that everyone else must abide by.

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How is asking and saying "please" making rules for other people?

SweetBirdsong · 03/11/2023 18:56

ThinWomansBrain · 03/11/2023 18:54

Irritating.
Especially when the OP is a bloody essay.
Its getting to the point where I tend to assume that these super long OP's are AI generated tosh.

Yes it is definitely worse if it's a massive (first) post! And as the OP said, quoting it when it's the first post after the OP is just bonkers! 😜

DuesToTheDirt · 03/11/2023 19:07

LadyPenelope68 · 03/11/2023 18:05

You must lead a very boring life if it’s such an issue for you. Just scroll past if you don’t like it …. Simple

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Quoting very long posts makes scrolling extremely tedious.

EveSix · 04/11/2023 09:55

I like the selective quoting, as suggested by Passepartoute; copying and pasting in bold the specific bit one is referencing from either the OP's or a PP's posts. Feels more precise.

ZiriForGood · 04/11/2023 10:27

MyGrannysBucket · 03/11/2023 16:25

It annoys me too, especially if it's a really long post. Even more so when posters continue to repost the entire post.
There was a thread recently where a poster replied to a post with a post that took up half of the page and several others quoted the entire post, one of the pages was nothing but that pissing post being quoted!
Why not just use the @ followed by the posters name, rather than quoting the entire post.

On the webpage (even from my phone) the quote of a quote is collapsed, so it doesn't take that much space. If the app doesn't do it, ditch the app.

What is the value of tagging people? It doesn't show the context, it doesn't link to the post, no-one knows what you are replying to. Totally useless.

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