Do people just read the titles then post these day?

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Just that. It’s infuriating.Nearly every post I’ve read in the last few weeks has had people commenting to ask a question where the answer is clearly stated in the OP, usually starts within the first few comments. What’s going on. Is reading comprehension that poor? I get people are short on time but then why bother to be involved in a forum thread with strangers at all. Or are they just reading the title or first couple of sentences then weighing in? It’s not even details that are added later that it’s happening, the answers are right there in the OP.

I’ve just seen it again. The poster even says ‘reading back’, her opinion on it depends if its example one or example 2. It very clearly stated in the OP’s first paragraph that the situation is example 2 and clarifies this in further posts for others who failed to spot that clear detail in the OP. 😅

Yes! I see this all the time. It just makes it look like they think their own opinion is so important that they have to spout it without paying attention to what has actually been said

It seems quite new being this prolific though. I wonder what’s changed?!

I see it all the time....

'I have one DC age 8' in the OP

then you get 'How old is DC'....!

And often there is no actual opinion. Made up example -

OP - DH doesn’t flush the toilet. Just put the lid down and leaves.

3rd poster on the thread - Does he at least put the lid down before he leaves?

🤯

yes I see it all the time too. I can almost understand missing a piece of information if the OP is very long and complex, but this happens even when the OP is 3-4 lines and very simple.

Often the questioned information is in the first few lines too. Not like concentration has been lost half way through

Yep. Not just on MN either.
OP: DH and I have no kids, just our dogs
Poster: how old are your DC and is he the father?
🤬

The ones that really annoy me are when the OP is asking if anyone knows the name of a book / film / song she remembers from years ago and cannot remember the name of, and describes a few key points very clearly, and then gets a load of replies from complete imbeciles who have a) only taken one element into account and b) are naming a book / film / song so well-known that there is no way on earth anyone would have seen it years ago and forgotten all about it.

For example:

OP: "Please help! I'm trying to find a book I read when I was a child in the mid-1970s. I can't remember the name of it, but it was about a girl in Victorian times who is orphaned and ends up getting apprenticed to a witch. It was set in London and I remember the witch had a skull that sat on a shelf and talked to her all the time."
Reply 1: "Could it be Harry Potter?"
Reply 2: "ChatGPT says it's Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens"
Reply 3: There's a witch in The Wizard Of Oz, maybe it's that

There was an example of this when someone said 'There's a song I remember from the 1990s, it was a dance/hip-hop track, I remember the intro went 'naaaa, na na naaa, na na na naaa, na na naa na na naaa' and one of the lyrics was "I'm a lyrical gangster", the vocalist has a Jamaican accent, I think it might have been on a film soundtrack' ** and about 87 imbeciles all said 'Hey Jude by the Beatles' while I quietly read the thread and considered poking my own eyes out.

**The song was Here Comes The Hotstepper by Ini Kamoze and is an absolute banger

I didn’t know Paul McCartney had a Jamaican accent 😆. I’d forgotten about these posts. I’ve not seen one for a while 😅

It’s awful especially when the thread is something serious like relationship, health problems or money worries.

I think we need a new rule- if your post shows you can’t be bothered to have at the very least, read all of the OPs posts, your comment can be reported and deleted.

The recent thread where OP had told her parents and sister that she wouldn't be bringing her 4yo and baby to visit until the sister's untrained puppy was trained or crated, since it had bitten her child and drawn blood. Family rejected crate, training, visiting separately, everything. All in the OP and subsequent posts.

400 posts and days on, and some nit has just posted 'go on the weekends when your sister doesn't'.

You see a thread with hundreds of posts, and you think, ah, my incredibly basic and obvious suggestion can't possibly have been thought of yet!

No idea why it gives me the rage, but it does.

There is a thread running atm where the op says her normally slightly grouchy cat has suddenly started sleeping on the ops bed .

Very sadly the cat died yet posters are still saying it could be ill take it to the vets.
There is only about 20 post in total so its not exactly hard to read through
I wish people would at least read all the OPs posts.😡

Some people really waffle on though, far too much detail…

Tbf I get bored and rarely complete the waffle ones so wouldn’t be reading the comments to see such behaviour

There's a really sad one at the moment where a posters child was hit by a van. The original poster clearly said that the driver stopped at the scene, yet one of the first replies is someone saying 'did the driver stop'

I don't know if it's a new thing OP - I've been moaning about it for years!

One thing I have noticed more and more in the last year or two - excessively long opening posts. I'm not talking about giving details to avoid drip feeding, I'm talking about really long paragraphs saying next to nothing.

No

I think that one was the final straw moment when I came and posted this after several other examples just today. (I’m ill but can’t sleep so distracting myself with mn). The info was right there clear as day that he’d stopped. I know it’s always been the case but it seems to be multiple people now on nearly every thread rather than just one or two lazy gits on the odd long thread

Does it really matter, its just a conversation

It's not a conversation if someone just butts in after three hours with a point dealt with in the first two minutes if they'd only bothered their arse to listen, is it though? Not one I'd enjoy, anyway.

Reading comprehension is poor too

there was a thread about OPs sister who clearly has long standing chronic conditions but was denied pip because she went deaf in one ear after an infection and they based the renewal on that alone

cue posters - well I got my hearing back a few weeks after the infection cleared up so why should she get pip, getting pip for deafness is outrageous, why does she need pip if she can use a hearing aid.

it really wasn’t that hard to understand the OPs point and I don’t think she came back because of all the unhelpful responses drowning the thread

God yes the post is terrible where I live. It takes 9 days for something first class to arrive. I blame the far right. They have infiltrated the postal system pretending to be diversity hires but are clearly shit at their jobs.

Genuinely half the responses on this site are from bots /Ai as you can tell from the writing style. Take everything with s linch of salt and move on.

This is where the thread would get entirely derailed by people arguing about the mail 😆. Another poster would insist that couldn’t possibly be the case as their post only takes 2 days and no one can have different experiences on mumsnet.