It's getting tough out there. Feeling the pinch?

YoungBlueEyes

It's awful when you don't have the choice.  I've just moved from a village that had a co-op and a sainsburys (always miraculously within pennies of each other on prices) and a corner shop !!!!!! post office. The nearest town was 20 miles away for all the others, so for me being a Lidler it was a 40 mile round trip. At least I didn't have to cross water to get there tho!

YoungBlueEyes

I agree about the full post quoting @Si_Clist.  It's not hard to take out the parts you're not referring to - even I can do it!

What particularly annoys me is when a string of people reply to a post and they all quote the first one in full.

A whole post quote is useful on threads where the OP looks likely to edit or delete chunks when they don't get the answers they were looking for, but the next 15 people don't have to do the same thing. Grrrr.

FrugalThymes

Si_Clist said:

FrugalThymes said:

... T3sco ... Asd4 ...

Sorry, but I have to ask - why the code?  What's wrong with "Tesco" and "Asda"? 

I'm back on the forums after a long break, from what I remember it was to firstly not 'promote the shops' for free and secondly to make it harder for the shops to see if we were talking about price mistakes we'd found or 'hacks' that we could take advantage of.

Honestly, I genuinely don't care either way, so happy to just write Tesco etc if it's now making it difficult for people to read

elsien

I remember those price mistake threads. Didn’t people decamp elsewhere in the end when there were one too many changes on here? 

JIL

Theres nothing written about forum etiquette for any newbies or oldies to follow.

New posters arrive and they follow what others are doing, that could include, changing shop names, referring to children as DS, DD, or quoting whole posts.

It's the content of the posts and that people are joining in, that matters, especially in these times.

Si_Clist

JIL said:

 ... It's the content of the posts and that people are joining in, that matters, especially in these times.

What this forum needs for that post is a "round of applause" smiley thing!

freyasmum

YoungBlueEyes said:

What particularly annoys me is when a string of people reply to a post and they all quote the first one in full.

When posting from a mobile device, the default is to quote not only the desired post, but also the ones to which it was a reply.

It's a pest to read, but it's not so easy to remove the excess text on a small device. 

MovingForwards

Si_Clist said:

JIL said:

 ... It's the content of the posts and that people are joining in, that matters, especially in these times.

What this forum needs for that post is a "round of applause" smiley thing!

What, like this 👏

Si_Clist

MovingForwards said:

What, like this 👏

That's it!  Looks like I need some new reading glasses ...

YoungBlueEyes

True freyasmum. If I’m on here on my phone it’s a pain to take out quotes from within quotes within quotes. 

I mean the ones where people read the first post and quote it to put their reply. Then the next person comes on, reads the first post and quotes it to add their reply. Rinse and repeat. They’re not quoting each other, or seemingly even reading each other, they’re all individually quoting the first one. 

I don’t know if I’ve explained that very well. 

Edit - like this: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6392792/examples-of-surprising-prices#latest