Please please can you make the OP unquotable?

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My neighbour's optician's cousin works in IT and said it's uber simple to amend.

Save all of our heads, please.

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Why 🤷‍♀️

Your neighbour's optician's cousin

Oh yes please.

It is such a pointless thing to do, and when it is a long post, it clogs up the pages.

I agree with a pp who said it would be good if we could just quote excerpts rather than an entire post.

Like this?

Yes. And I'm 'guilty' of quoting the original post sometimes (not always). When I do it it's usually because it's a long post and I need to refer to details in that post as I write the reply. I really don't find it annoying when the original post is repeated above a reply.

Not like that no. A proper "quote" appears in a shaded box with attributed author and time stamp. Copying and pasting a paragraph is what we used to do before the quote function was added but it's a lot less useful.

There's clearly a cohort of users who hate seeing the op repeated eleventy-six times (including me) and a different cohort who are doing it deliberately because they are accessing mumsnet in a way that doesn't give them ready access to the OP. So perhaps the request to MNHQ needs to be to make the OP unquotable AND stick a link near the "add new post" box to make the OP easily visible to them while writing their reply, without having to quote it?

Why does this actually bother people? I actually need reminding of the OP!

AND stick a link near the "add new post" box to make the OP easily visible to them while writing their reply, without having to quote it?

This is interesting. Only the OP may have become irrelevant if the thread starter has updated with info that changes the situation. Referring to the OP would be pointless and disruptive in that circumstance.

On this thread? If so, you can't have looked very closely.

Sometimes I quote the OP simply so that it's easy to copy pieces of it into my post. Sometimes I forget to clear the quote when I'm done

I read a thread on here where a few posters said they did it as they knew it annoyed people, I suspect that’s true.

id also make it unquotable. I find it ridiculous that people quote the initial post.

Do people do it because they have experience of other forums where the line of discussion is less apparent? I don’t know - I don’t frequent any others. But perhaps clearer guidance on MN posting etiquette might help, too?

Oh. I'm new to MN and I thought the app is all there was! I thought that was it

Nope! I’ve always used the mobile site. Tried the app when it arrived but it was completely inadequate for navigating an Archers thread which always runs to about 980 posts before we move to a new one.

Yes, please.

And the people who think it’s the height of wit to quote the OP in posts explaining why it’s tedious - I always imagine they burst into song when they meet someone called Caroline or Ruby

Pleasssssee do this
To my shame I once quoted the OP and felt the biggest dick

No, because whoever posted the part you bolded won't know you've replied to her, whereas you will have received a notification that I have replied to you.

+1 for your request, OP.

One of my particular irritations of seeing the OP quoted is when it happens when the thread is already two days and 400+ posts in and the OP has returned a couple of times with additional information, or has taken early advice on board and is posting from a slightly different viewpoint now / is asking a supplementary question. Up rocks LazySusan123* at post 457, quoting the OP and giving the exact same answer as the first 20 posts on page 1 which the OP has already taken into account / responded to. Is there a quicker way to advertise "I don't even bother reading any other posts the OP may have added in this long thread, let alone looking to see if someone else may have already suggested this in this long-running thread, YOU SHALL BE GRATEFUL FOR MY UNORIGINAL PEARLS OF WISDOM OP"?

*. Apologies ** to any posters actually using this as a username.
** Unless you quote the OP, in which case you smell 😜

You can't in the android app!!

I don't get notifications.

But if i was the OP of a post I'd be checking it regularly anyway.

I think it is good to be able to quote the OP when you are responding to the OP, or else how does anyone know who you are responding to if the thread has got really long? and it isn't hurting anyone!

I would like to be able to just quote small sections though

Well usually the conversation has moved on, so if its post 537 and you feel you have something very critical to impart about the very first post, then I would suggest reading the rest of the thread first, or at the very least the OPs updates. The likelihood is someone has already made your point many comments before.

to quote the OP when you are responding to the OP

The whole point of a MN thread is that the conversation is all in response to the OP. You have the ability to @ another poster if your comment is directly to them and not the OP. But it’s a given that the main subject of a thread is the OP’s (sometimes evolving) issue or thought.

Maybe. But maybe I just don't want to. We are all here for fun, not to get arduous reading HW imposed on us.

I think it is good to be able to quote the OP when you are responding to the OP, or else how does anyone know who you are responding to if the thread has got really long? and it isn't hurting anyone!

You write "OP," at the start of your post.
Problem solved @60andsomething !
No-one is claiming it's hurting anyone but on some devices it can be annoying to have screen after screen of the same text.