to find the Mumsnet quote function incredibly tedious as it's so overused?

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And I'm not even talking about quoting the opening post (which has now been sorted in a way).

But ... just so much quoting going on in the discussion! Why can't people address their comments directly to whoever they're quoting. Or manually quote the particular sentence or point they want to agree or disagree with? Or say something like "PP said [short quote or summary] and I think ...".

The threads are so long now and involve so much scrolling.

I was just looking at a thread and quite early on someone made a controversial post of 4 paragraphs long. Within the next page and a half it had been quoted 22 times! 22 times in an hour and a half. It was quoted 7 times in the first 10 minutes.

So boring.

And you can't quote this to be funny in reply because it's the OP. Lol!

Yeah that’s annoying!!

This, honestly. Quoting is great (except the OP, that’s unnecessary).

You're not making sense. If I just write a post, its not clear that Im responding to the OP necessarily given how conversations ebb and flow, twist and turn, go off tangent

I dont have a problem with quoting the OP or any other quote.

Yep. I’m not going to scroll back to fund what the @ poster originally said. Quoting is fine!

Anyway, I have already solved this. Just have the quote collapsed, with maybe a couple of lines showing, unless someone wants to click Expand to see the whole quote.

It gives helpful context.

I don't like it when people quote the OP. It goes without saying you are responding to the OP, no need to repeat it!

If you read the full thread that includes my response that you originally quoted, it does make sense.
You said you always quoted the op so that you can easily see which bits you want to respond to while typing. I said that you could just hit “clear quote” after you’ve finished, before hitting post. No one needs to quote the op as everyone will have read it if they’re on the thread, and will assume every post is a response to the original op unless it’s clearly a response to something/someone else.

I think 90% of users like using the quote and make good use of it.

The other 10% of us seethe every time you hit a block of repeated text...

You clearly didnt read my whole post did you.

No its not assumed someone is replying to the OP because people dont always, they may may an observation, muse about something, express bafflement at something else in the thread.

Yes people do assume that a post is a response to the op unless it’s made clear otherwise.

Some evidence from another poster a few posts up: “I don't like it when people quote the OP. It goes without saying you are responding to the OP, no need to repeat it!”

because the conversation may have gone awry and off tangent so it wouldnt make sense to then have a random post in the middle of an argument about shoe sizes or something when the OP was about gardening
It is always assumed that you are replying to the OP though. It's the OPs thread. If you are making a comment about gardening then it's obvious you are not replying to the comments about shoes.

Or you could just say something like I prefer real grass to fake OP! Then there's no need to quote the whole thing.

YABU OP. I like the quote function so I don't have to scroll back to find the post that posters are replying to, but quoting the OP is very annoying and unnecessary.

No, it isn't. You can tag the person you're responding to, or you can just post their name in your response, or you can quote a line from their post that you want to address.

You don't have to quote all 163 words of it, especially not if you're the 20+ person to do so.

On a separate note for the OP quoters - if you are worried someone reading the thread doesn't understand you are agreeing with the OP, instead of quoting their entire post, you can just type "Agree OP" or "I agree with you OP" or even "OP, I agree".

The quote function is relatively new on Mumsnet. If trundled along ok for about 20 years without it.

It trundled along alright. Took a while for MN to catch up with the rest of the internet.

And is it the OPs OP the one Im replying to, or a later post from the OP, how would you know

I will continue to quote the OP when I fancy, sometimes I do, sometimes I dont, depends on the flow of the conversation

I like the quote function

@likelysuspect you do realise that if you quote the OP's OP, everyone else only sees the first line of the OP's OP?

I like the quote function too and I'm not bothered about people quoting the OP.

I think the opposite. Since the emoji ‘react’ function came along people quote a lot less. I preferred when people quoted snd said ‘This’. It really helped to show the views people supported. Now that support is hidden behind the emoji react function that only the person who wrote the quote can see.

It was sooo much better when the quote function came along! . When people quoted the name of the poster, everyone else had no idea what that person had said! You had to trawl bank through the thread if you wanted to find out.

Quote function is way better.

Exactly. This is what it was like on MN all the time till the quote function came along.

Why?

if someone has said exactly what I was going to say, what's wrong (in your opinion )about quilting & saying 'this'. It's stil showing my view on the situation.

Why are you bothered by it then, what difference does it make to you?

I disagree. It's like 50 different conversations going on at once & I feel like you miss half of the conversation

Agree.

i hate seeing @ poster - as it means nothing to me and stops the flow of the thread.

quoting a post makes much more sense as you can see exactly what was said.

I quote more now than before because when I try & copy part of a post the page often skips. never used to happen

I like the quote system. Yes, it’s annoying when the same post is quoted multiple times, but not THAT annoying. You glance at it, think ‘oh there’s that post again’, then read the reply. It’s a few extra seconds of clocking that it’s the same post. I sometimes copy and paste a couple of sentences and highlight them, but it’s a bit of a faff and you can’t do it on the app, only in the browser.