When do you think is the best time to pick a best response?

Yes this happens to me all the time. I am like you I wait for about a week (and sometimes longer if not many responses) to chose the best response. They way I pick the best response is I want to see if the person responding is answering all my questions and adding to the discussion. I guess it really is just personal preference, but I read all my responses also. I have had people come in later I wish I could have chosen but I had already picked someone.

well i have a rule. I dont award best response until one week has gone by from the last response. This seems to give everyone an equal chance blessed be

well congratulations. i guess your topics are really that assertive and is worthwile to be answered. and yes it also happens to me at times. well i got this habit of choosing the best answer so soon as long as i felt that this person was able to give all the things that i needed for the query. and there would be some who would come up with almost the same and better. but i made my choice already. first and foremost we need not regret because the FIRST person who came up with an assertive answer deserves to have the best response title. what i to to other is to rate them positively and say some remarks for them. in that way they'll know that i accept their answers positively

hmmm...I pick my best response, when I could totally relate to whatever the member responded...uhm, I don't really feel sorry if someone else gives out a better response. hehe.

for me, i really as in really have a very hard time choosing, some of my discussion or MOST of my discussions are unsolved, i think out of many discussions i made less than a five i gave the best response, maybe i will find a day in which i will not have many bothering, maybe weekends, i feel very guilty of not giving the best response, I have that thinking also what if someone just passed on my discussion and give the response i am waiting for, what if, so still i am not giving any of my best responses more often, and also often i have the hard time choosing, as in, ll are good or best, so really difficult s what i do is this, for i not to have big guilt i respond as much as possible to all, but past days or weeks responding to all the responses i get is hard too, but i try, i check all of my discussions, but since i have to increase my response ranking cause imagine for a month of staying here i just got 200+ posting rank, thanks, i hope it helps, even thought, it's a bit puzzling,!!^^

well i had settled rules with regards to awarding best response..i let one month to pass before doing so, to give chance for others to give their best shot on my discussion..i dont wanna regret things when awarding it because sometimes there would come a user who pops up responding the best answer and it will be a big regret if you had marked someone the best response already..

Yes so many times I wish I could pick more than one. It's so hard. I try to waite for the discussion to die out. This could be a week to a month. I am now going to just wait a month to be sure I am giving everyone time to make a response.

I don't like to give out best response until a few days have gone by without a new response. This gives those people that don't get logged in every single day the opportunity to take a break and not really miss anything. I bugs me when I see people give out best response after two responses because a friend responded.

I'm glad you asked this...yes, I have had trouble with this too. I tend to respond to the posts of others rather than starting many of my own...and those that I do start usually do not get many messages. Anyway, I have not regretted giving BR when another comes along later that is equal to or better - although I do wish I could give more than one BR sometimes. I try to give BR to the one who has offered an objective answer, that is helpful to many, EVEN if it differs from my own opinion on a subject or issue.

I normally give first come first served, at the same time some cases I will wait for right response tallying to the points I have in mind.You have to make right judgment.

I used to give BRs practically the same day when I was a newbie, until a discussion I read changed my mind. Right now I wait a week by default. But if your discussion is moving along - lets say it's getting at least 1 or 2 new replies after the 7 days, I would probably give it 2 weeks then. I would let the discussion itself determine how much longer after 7 days I need to keep it open. But we just never know when someone is going to pop in and give a best answer after BR is already chosen. Some of us bump really old discussion that become very active again and that pretty much moots the entire waiting process...so just do your best with what you have, people understand. Sometimes I think myLot should provide us with a crystal ball, heh!

Hello. This is wery hard to answer to I hawe started to them once a week and thats why I think its hard to waite to long and its nice to them who has maid a respond to get the best response. And it will always bee times when you shose the wrong one. Hawe a nice day.

I pick the best response NOT because it's the response that I WOULD like to have, but because the content is meaty. If that person presented his idea in a way that adds another 'twist' to that discussion, then I'm picking that ONE. ;p

Well, I am new here and I don't know why my discussions are not generating good number of responses. I don't think my discussions are meaningless or of mediocre quality. They are good one and worth to discuss. I think I would give best response after 7 days of posting that discussion. If that discussion and not generating any good number of responses then I would wait for some more responses. I think many good quality discussions are lying here without any responses. And many stupid discussion are earning good number of responses. I think number of responses depends upon number of friends you have. I always start posting by responding to my friend's discussion, but unfortunately I don't even get responses by them. So sad. Let's wait for some days.

I usually try to wait a month, & when there are sufficient responses. I have not started many discussions, but I have gotten at least one comment saying that they wished they could re-select the best response.

First off , I love Country Music too. Okay. I read all the responses I get to a discussion.Sometimes the first response is the best response is the best but I don't mark it until the discussion is at least one week old.And some discussions I don't mark a best response because there is no best response, there is no right or wrong answer.Sometimes it takes me longer than a week to mark a best response because I have forgotten to go back and mark it.

I usually give it a day or two and if no-one happens to answer after that then I select best response. I just did that yesterday when I gave a BR and then to find later on someones else comment was a lot more informative - oh well i suppose i wont always get it right.

Yes, I have and it seems the best advice comes one or two months after I have posted the discussion. Then it is too late to change the best response.

I normally wait about a week or longer to choose a best response on my discussions. I like to try to give everyone a chance to respond. Once I see I'm not really getting anymore responses then I'll pick a best response. When I first started on here I was really bad about forgetting to pick a best response so I've been playing catch up there. Here lately I've been picking best responses from my discussions as far as 4 months ago. I normally go by who gave the most thought out andbest advice. Sometimes it's really hard to pick just one.

I consider all response in my discussion as best responses. I don't think on how many number of people of who will response so if I found a response very good and agreeable by my standard I choose it as the best response.