Do You Research Your Discussions Before You Start Them??

Hello,monkeywriter,honestly i do research on the topic that I am going to start ,but i will not use the seacr hfeature to see whetehr someone had started similar discussions or not. I think there is not problem to start similar discussions as long as it is not copy and paste one,it will be fine. I think if one really want to start something special,he/she must be very creative,otherwise ,we can see most of the topics are in fact similar.

Even if I wanted to I'm just too lazy to do so. Someone said that it doesn't matter and you should post anyway coz every topic started by a different person is unique in their own way. I actually did like 3 discussions which were already done and I felt guilty because after I posted it, the same discussion appeared below it, you know, the "similar discussion" thingy. But what the hey, it's not like I copied it intentionally. We were just thinking along the same wavelength.

When I first started mylot no I didn't research my topics before writing them,but now I do because I want to see if I can find something nobody else has talked about. They are tons of repeat discussions, in a way that is good because we have almost 90,000 members and that way they all will get ansered can you imagine one person answering that many post to their discussion? they'd never have time to post on mylot to other discussions and that would take the fun out of it. Well happy posting...

I do research my discussion before I start it to make sure I don't repeat discussion that is just going on by other user...if yes, I just reply to discussion and I don't start new...

I do try to always research topics prior to posting, however it doesn't always work. I don't find out until after posting that their are several other discussions out there that have been started in the past. I don't just try once either I make several attempts with different key words. That seems to be the problem, some discussions that are started with no tags, or tags that don't go with the discussion, etc... I'm lucky though in that my discussions even though similar usually are quite different than the others. No one can say that I took it from someone else. :) I know that many people have different ways of doing things, I just try to follow the rules as much as possible. I have had to not post a topic on a given day as a friend would have already started a similar discussion that I had planned to start, no search needed then, LOL. Never want to be thought of as cheating and copying from someone else. :)

hi monkeywriter. Although I don't have that much discussions, sometimes I do, just so I don't duplicate how the discussion was being asked. The first time I made one, I just made it out of the blue. Only to find out there were lots of discussions on the topic. The perils of being a newbie. It's a combination of sorts I think. Some days I don't like to even search, I just go on with typing what I got my mind on. Other times when Im feeling cautious I do check out if the topic had been discussed. Thanks and have a good day!

I defintely do the discussion search before starting a discussion myself. For the first 2 weeks I was here on MyLot I didn't - I hadn't read the guidelines all the way through apparently. But once I did, I started checking. Especially if it is about a popular subject, you just KNOW there is going to be something about it already on MyLot. Now there has been an occasion I'd use the search discussion feature, and nothing would show. However, after posting the discussion, at the bottom where they list similar discussions, there would be a discussion about my topic VERY close to being exactly alike.