To think we should be able to remove responses that clearly haven't read the OP?

[Canyoureadthough]

NC'd for this for obvious reasons but it's a real bugbear of mine and happens on almost every thread.

OP will include "currently staying at MIL's house in a rural area with no takeaways/delivery options" and then outline a problem with being able to get dinner because the shops are driving distance and she's over the limit only to discover all the food in the fridge/freezer is off. Every bloody comment will be "why don't you just order a takeaway?" and, more often than not, it's "Jesus! Order a takeaway and unclench OP 🙄It's not hard!!"

OP will write a post saying they have a problem at work or with a nursery or with a builder and say "nothing in the contract about it" or "we didn't have a contract on paper" or whatever it is. And every other response will be "check your contract" - and, again, usually as if the OP is stupid.

And it's not just in response to the OP. On a post about someone breaking their leg, a PP will comment with a story about breaking their arm and how they were advised to use a certain product. Another person will reply "that doesn't help with a broken arm" and the PP will respond with evidence that it does help with a broken arm - just for a dozen posters to go "OP DOESN'T HAVE A BROKEN ARM, WHY ARE YOU PROVIDING LINKS ABOUT BROKEN ARMS!?!?!" and completely missing that they were discussing broken arms at the time.

A post asking for recipes and will mention DS has a dairy allergy. Someone will recommend a recipe with dairy in but will say "I know it has sour cream, do you have a dairy-free equivalent?" and a dozen posters will kick off about "THAT HAS SOUR CREAM IN IT!"

It honestly exhausts me that it feels like most posters can't read. I swear it didn't used to be this bad - I feel like every post has posters just not reading and then getting irate at others because of their own inability to read, and usually being really bloody rude too. Is it just me?!

Or someone comments on a 300 post thread with a reply that was relevant 295 posts ago

The threads that annoy me are the ones which run to 500+ replies, mostly saying the same thing, over and over again, long after the OP has gone.

Yanbu. The amount of times I write something and someone replies with a completely irrelevant answer because they can't comprehend it properly is insane.

That type of post is usually preceded with 'I asked ChatGPT and it replied with this drivel that I'm going to post as if it's my own thoughts, that I'm seemingly oblivious that no-one thinks it's anything except AI shite .

I do always read the OP's posts but am not wading through hundreds of off-topic replies.

@Tiredforfive45 you've explained it better than me!

You're totally right!

I think you may be a little over invested in MN, OP.

(Disclaimer - I skimmed your post after the first few lines).

The human condition, innit...

So why are you wasting time here?

Would it be ok if I asked to have your post removed? You appear to be quite conceited and clearly you believe you are always careful, correct and measured in your responses - but you're not, and I know for a fact that both in real life and online you say and do things that annoy other people greatly, from time to time, or perhaps quite frequently. Source: reality and all of human history.

No, of course not, that would be just blatant censorship based on my personal preference, which is what you're advocating for.

There are many traits I loathe in commenters on mumsnet and other sites - it's my right to respond or keep scrolling, just as it's their right to say whatever they like within the guidelines of the site.

Why have you NC'd OP? It us not a very controversial view and lots on the thread agree with you, as I do.

Yep yep yep! Seems to have been a bumper crop recently of these in particular:
OP: I’m not able to work due to disability/DC issues/caring for elderly parent
Assorted MNers: get a job

Thing is, if they don’t they get accused of drip feeding if further info has to be supplied later.

Oh and btw there's this amazing feature available on social media - for anyone who has the urge to censor others, believing their own comments and opinions to be superior to the common herd - it's called "Just get a life and keep scrolling".

It's being trialled worldwide, early reports are that it saves a lot of time and angst.

People have no attention span and are completely disengaged and/or preoccupied. I blame phones. They're also getting thicker.

It's annoying, but I think you're having an extreme reaction to want the ability to remove posts to a minor annoyance.

I dont think MN rules allow for deletion of posts because posters are thick/incapable of logical thought/dippy/sheep

You could lobby MN to change the rules 🙂

I agree! Not out of spite, but often there's a big clunker, and then another 15 posts of different posters correcting them with exactly the same info. So that's 16 posts that don't help the OP.

I find it worse when it just becomes repetitive, and there's been no updates from OP. Or worse when somehow the whole narrative changes from what it was originally! It's like Chinese Whispers

Ooh but I do love a good derail , especially when the OP skidadled long since.
20,000 pages in and we're left arguing over nonsense that will never ever be resolved 🤗.

My Workplace have been advised that any information released to adults has a reading age equivalent of a nine year old.

Interesting. We don't read as effectively from a screen compared from a piece of paper. Therefore, the op is correct. Reading skills are poorer than you would expect. This has been proved by research.

There are probably loads of other factors though. Like a pp said - multi-tasking. Also, I reckon just being stressed (or horrible) so looking for the slightest excuse to give the OP a kicking to feel superior.

The thing i hate is some imagined flaw that gets invented as an extension of the OP. This then gets repeated enough to become fact. Not a result of misreading, but of "overanalysis", instead.

Yup. The people who join a discussion forum and criticise people for starting a discussion.

It’s one of many annoying things posters do. It’s a big community so there’s going to be annoying people. A bit like real life. You have to ignore them and perhaps not be so emotionally invested in what is said by people you don’t know.

One of the things that I find annoying, although not enough to start a thread about it, is how outraged some MNs are that not everyone is exactly like them.

Or when they pick on one little bit - OP will make a whole post about going to a birthday party and getting a present in the morning and coming home after the party and making dinner and the oven being broken and does anyone know how to fix it and every response will say "why did you buy the present immediately before the party? You should be more organised"

This is standard MNs though

Do you read all the replies op?
I read all the op’s comments and might read a few replies (5 or so) before I respond but I don’t read everything. Unless it’s a funny things your boss/husband has done or similar where we are all telling a story.