Gransnet abbreviations

No idea. What context was it in?

Oh wait! I just worked it out: Read The Fucking Thread

Hope that helps

Could you perhaps ask HQ to correct your thread title to Gransnet?

Otherwise we'll get a lot more confused grans 😂

Read the full thread

JaneJudge, your interpretation is politer than mine! 😂

I have never used the RTFT acronym, I hasten to add!!

I suspect it gravitated over here from Mumsnet like much else.

I actually think telling people to read the whole thread is bossy and unnecessary, as if one weren't allowed to respond directly to the OP or any other single post on the thread.

I have got the impression over the years that people who feel their posts have been "ignored" are the most likely to make the, ahem, request of RTFT. What they don't seem to realise is that of course other posters will say the same as they have and that it's perfectly legitimate for there to be numerous repetitions of the same points. That's just the nature of this kind of social media.

Baggs thanks on both counts - I will get the title typo corrected right away.
But as for 'read the fucking thread' - words fail me. (is this an official Gransnet expression? I find it offensive)

There are other abbreviations I find confusing, even official ones - DSiL = dear sister in law OR dear son in law.
Why not just type it out then everyone knows what you're talking about?

I used it yesterday (without telling anyone to do so). It’s common all over the internet, and the F can stand for full, flipping, flaming, frigging, as well as Baggs’ version.

I think the RTFT suggestion comes about if someone posts and makes a point that’s already been made numerous times, or if the original poster has said the situation is resolved.
I usually type the whole word(s) than use acronyms, each to their own.

RTFM (manual) is a well known abbreviation especially in the computer industry.

I think if people aren't reading the whole thread it gets repetitive though, like the bloody breakfast buffet thread. But I'm as lazy as the next person

Duplicatons will happen, but I think it's lazy when the OP states for example, her husband has died, and only a couple of posts down someone states what dies your husband think. I don't mind posters correcting that sort of thing.
I don't know why you think that it is posters who feel ignored are the ones to say RTFT Baggs. I have seen posters whose user name I recognise use it, although not as much as Mumsnet.

I just ask if I don't know who (insert any letters from A-Z) is.

If it's a mish mash of dil, ddil, ddil1,2,3, ssil, dsdil, I don't read threads.

I think if people aren't reading the whole thread it gets repetitive though

I agree, JJ, but why does that matter? If one is annoyed at the repetitiveness one can just stop looking at that thread, surely?

rafichagran, I'm sorry but I don't understand your first sentence.

Oh wait! I went back and read it again. I think you meant "does" where it says dies.

Yes, that's clumsy. Doesn't mean it was deliberate. It's very easy to get confused/not understand exactly what is meant, as the first sentence of this post proves. In a case such as you outline, I would always assume someone misread or thought they were replying to something else.

Baggs

*I think if people aren't reading the whole thread it gets repetitive though*

I agree, JJ, but why does that matter? If one is annoyed at the repetitiveness one can just stop looking at that thread, surely?

I find it impossible

😂

It makes me cross when the whole theme has changed from the opening info, but people still post "Put a stop to it, immediately" or "Are you for real?".
At least read the thread if you want to feel superior, or you look a bit daft.

I’ve never actually posted that anyone should RTFT, but I do wish I had a pound for every time I’ve thought it.

I do find that people in general don’t read text properly.

I made a complaint to DHL about their service in the UK and got a reply back saying USA customs had to be dealt with by the consignment receiver. It took three more emails before they understood my complaint (the parcel sat in their depot for two weeks). They just didn’t read my email properly, just assumed what the problem was.

I don’t see the point of posting on a thread if you haven’t read it all, because of course it becomes repetitive and often inappropriate. If the post has deviated too much from the original, especially towards personal disagreements, which some seem to love, and which garner the most attention, I just don’t bother.

Baggs and JJ I think it does matter a lot and nothing to do with getting irritable but the whole thread can change to almost the opposite by people not being arsed to read the few posts above them, they are so intent with what the want to say.

However I loathe abbreviations I think they are lazy, and often totally daft why would you call your daughter darling when she hasn’t spoken to you for 10 years, so silly shut I just don’t use them at all (my choice) they are lazy and often don’t make sense and can be confusing also they don’t really save time who is counting in seconds !!

I get confused with the initials, I mean am assuming DH stands for ‘dear husband’, at first I thought was ‘departed husband’, not sure why there is a ‘dear’ there. Or is it ‘dear’? Maybe I got that wrong too, perhaps it stands for ‘dreadful husband’.
Anyway I tend to use the full word just to be sure on most occasions. 🫣

Imagine if the husband was dearly departed, and deaf?