to think that if you cant be bothered to read a post properly and completely including the replys... you shouldn't reply

[muddle78]

i dont think this is such a problem with funny or chat style threads but when people are asking for help i find this really unacceptable!

Well this winds me up on AIBU- usually on the ones where the OP comes back after 3 or more posts to say yes, sorry IABU and then gets another 200 posts of a telling off

oh sorry, just realised this is probably a thread about a thread, haven't seen the original

yes, that's what we all need - more regulation.

I'm sick of the 'should's' on this board.

read it - don't read it, who gives a fuckity fuck wank.

agre ewith laurie

I read a question I answer it - I don't read 50 replies to find out what other people think. I answer it and then if I'm interested I'll go back and skim-read the other answers.

beautifully put

laurie's beautifully put, frank's sensibly put

oh no i like to post on the basis of NO information at all

I like to spend as much time as poss posting and as little as poss reading

Sometimes the thread is sooo long that if I were to read all the replies I would be reading 7+ pages (I have other things to do ya know!)

So I read the OP and post my opinion.

haven't read the replies, but I think you are BU.

I don't always read the thread all the way through if I'm on my phone because a long one tends to take ages to load & scroll down, but when I'm on the laptop I usually like to read it all.

i get that this is often a piss taking site... i get that it is not practicle to read 50 or so replys... ok so in this i am poss being unreasonable BUT to not bother to read a serious plea for help and make sweeping ill concidered replies is not ok IMO AND i accept that more regulation is not useful and i would be against such regulation myself i do feel common sense/ empathy etc is missing and IMO this is sad

YABU,yes you have to read the post but why should you go through reems and reems of replys we are busy mums you know.

Anyway the poster is asking us of our opinions not our opinions of other peoples opions if you get what i mean.

I dont get it. If someone is asking for help and you think you can help, you help. Why do you need to read what everyone else has said?

piglet is right - OP, get over yourself already....
I think there is shed-loads of common sense/empathy on MN...

I find it more annoying when the thread is less than a page long and still nobody can be bothered to read that the OP changed their mind...

I'm a person who usually reads reams and reams of replies...and then I don't post myself.
If it's a short thread I might post.
But usually I'd say I read about 20 threads a day and only post a couple of times a week.

thanks for drawing our attention to what you find "really unacceptable"

gosh,it really matters doesn't it.one of life's ethical quandary

who gives a shit?? (apart from you?)

I see I've been beaten to the obvious smart-arse reply
Just ignore any replies you don't agree with- most OPs do.

Havent read the whole thread. Couldnt be arsed. YABU.