Highlighting all OP posts, as on Mumsnet

I have started skimming over the quote within a quote posts. Recently one had five quotes within the post and then the poster's comment contained only three words!

It's like posters have found a new toy.

Same here MerylStreep I'm easily confused nowadays.

Totally agree MerylStreep.

The new quote option. My favourites are the quote within a quote within a quote and on and on it goes.
Am I the only one who looses track of who said what ?
That's why I don't read them.

I agree maizie those long "quotes" are really annoying. Especially as I don't know how to do it.

Every time this subject comes up someone says that OP's subsequent posts are green on their device, but HQ have never said this has been implemented. In her post above, Lara also says it would be nice but GN does not have it (yet).

We'll just have to make sure we post furiously (as in "numerously" rather than "angrily")

It really would be very useful.

Can you post a screenshot Glammanana?

I agree with OP it is a great idea and would be so useful, even if our threads aren't as big as MNet. Also think that sadly we, the poor old Grannies, will never be allowed it.

I agree with others up thread, I really do not like that new quote option, it takes up so much space and makes me just want to ignore it all. If I want to refer to a previous post, I just copy a line or two in italics.

By the way, bearing in mind the recent thread, I wasn't wealth signalling about my new phone. ?
The old one packed up!

Me too Marydoll Only the original post is green the rest are white. All mine show up as pink

The option to see only the OP's posts may be new to MN, but seeing all the OP's posts highlighted within the thread is not new.

Even with our non-lengthy GN threads, I have often wished we had this feature so we can quickly see all that the OP has said on the subject.

Please do this, if at all possible, GNHQ.

Marydoll

I have a brand new android phone and only the OP is green. Any following posts by the OP are white, like everyone else's. So nothing to do with age of phone, I think.

Thanks, Marydoll. It’s puzzling, isn’t it?

I have a brand new android phone and only the OP is green. Any following posts by the OP are white, like everyone else's. So nothing to do with age of phone, I think.

Thanks for the response, Lara, it’s good to know you’re listening! It looks as though most of us would like this function, so fingers crossed it’ll be considered.

I don’t often cross over to the other side, but my visits are much more interesting now. And a bit shorter.

I’m surprised that others can see all the OP’s posts in green on their iPhones. I only see the first post highlighted, then all my own in pink. Perhaps it’s because my phone’s an old one.

Maizie. Those repeat quotes which I’ve only recently noticed, are seriously annoying, so much so that I’m now not reading most of them ?

Soda pop, mine too on my phone. Easy to find when OP re-enters the thread.

I agree, it would be a great asset. Sometimes, the OP adds information during the course of the thread because other posters have come up with ideas/questions and that can alter the course of the thread completely. Unless prospective posters read the entire thread they will not realise that and may post something that's no longer relevant.

Not everyone has the time/ability/stamina to read pages and pages of posts!

I'd rather have that than the silly 'quote' function that quotes the entire message, when you may only want to highlight a sentence from it, and then embeds quotes within quotes so that a single sentence response takes up a massive amount of the screen!

My Ops posts are posted in green and mine are pink on my laptop,really easy to find.

Sodapop, mine too, I read from my iPhone.

On my tablet all the OP posts are highlighted in green and mine in pink.

Yes a disappointing reply from GNHQ. It would be so much better o have OP updates.

Thanks LaraGransnet but that's a bit disappointing really. Highlighted posts make it much easier to keep track. <sigh>

Absolutely second the above, it wouldn't cost GN anything apart from a few minutes of web developer time?