When answering a discussion, do you look to see how long ago it was posted?

@AmbiePam (93739)
United States
October 8, 2007 4:31pm CST
This is just a simple question, and no judgment attached to it. I just want to know if you look to see how long ago a discussion was posted before answering it? Doesn't matter if it has a lot of responses or only a few responses.
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• United States
9 Oct 07
Hi Ambie, lol I mostly notice once I have hit submit and its on the add tags page. lol Its too late then!! I wouldnt mind if my post got commented on 6 months down the road or more. If I have something to say on the subject, then I will more and likely post a comment no matter what. :) Bay xx
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@AmbiePam (93739)
• United States
9 Oct 07
My discussion that won't die is 7 months old and has over 100 responses. I have all the answers on that one I need, LOL. Sometimes people post and ask us to go back their old discussions, and that is fun when it only had like one response. It really starts to heat up on the discussions list.
@AmbiePam (93739)
• United States
10 Oct 07
Pye said she had someone answer a discussion of hers about a problem she had back in May. A problem that from the discussion, you could tell would have to be solved within a short amount of time. Yet, they responded now in October, LOL.
• United States
10 Oct 07
Oh well yea, that aside, I mean if its a particular question or dilema then no I probably wouldnt, but if its just a general discussion thats not asking for help or solutions. Yeah I can see your point, if you have that many comments then Im sure you have an answer by now, or it has been solved since then. lol Funny Bay xx
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@mari_skye (1637)
• Philippines
9 Oct 07
Yes, I do check a discussion on how long it has been posted. For one, because responding to a discussion that has been posted for a long time may be irrelevant now. Two, because my memory is not that sharp, there is a chance that I have already responded to the same discussion. So before answering a discussion, I really check to see how long it has been posted.
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@AmbiePam (93739)
• United States
9 Oct 07
I too have checked to see if I had answered a discussion before. The topic may look familiar, but I don't want to answer it if I have already. : )
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@terri0824 (4991)
• United States
9 Oct 07
That's why I mark all my discussions that I post to with a "+". That way it is rated and I know that I have already responded to that discussion, because there is no way that I could keep up with it otherwise, trying to recall from memory.
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@AmbiePam (93739)
• United States
9 Oct 07
I do the same, but sometimes if I don't think I have time to write a good response to something, I will give them a good rating anyway. And then maybe later I come back and can't tell if I answered it or not.
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@deebomb (15304)
• United States
9 Oct 07
Yes I do check to see how old a discussion is. I also check to see if that person comments on their discussions and when they were last here. I like to get feed back and if the person starting a discussion hasn't been on for a few weeks I know i won't get any feed back. Those I tend to not respond to.
@AmbiePam (93739)
• United States
9 Oct 07
True. Some old discussions I look at have absolutely no responses. It could be a 5 month old discussion, but the poster never came back to follow up on it.
@cher913 (25782)
• Canada
10 Oct 07
sometimes! sometimes i forget to look and end up answering the same one that i did about 4 months ago! lol! it pays to look!
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@AmbiePam (93739)
• United States
10 Oct 07
Very true. : )
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@owstalaga (4707)
• Philippines
11 Oct 07
not really, if it interests me i'll answer first before i look at the date or something.
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@AmbiePam (93739)
• United States
11 Oct 07
I just wonder how mylotters who have been here a long time feel about old discussions popping up at the front of their discussion list.
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• Philippines
11 Oct 07
nope, i dont look at the date. i just browse discussions and then i answer what i feel like answering or those where i think my opinion counts. for me it doesnt matter how long it has been posted. what matters is that, the one who posted the discussions was able to read my response.
@AmbiePam (93739)
• United States
11 Oct 07
The only problem is that sometimes a response someone replies with is not relevant anymore. That's why I try to check the date because I've posted something thinking I could help a situation, but then I saw the date and it well past any time I could be of help.
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@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
9 Oct 07
I do tend to look. I find it far less useful to respond to a discussion if it was started months ago. Usually it has been resolved by then, & the person who initiated it is not so interested in replying. Also, the discussion may have been a particular query, which may have a;lready been solved.
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@AmbiePam (93739)
• United States
9 Oct 07
Exactly. Thank you for your answer. : )
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• United States
9 Oct 07
i look to see how long ago it was posted, but if its something really interesting to me, or i know ive got some good input, ill go ahead and respond.
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@michfroi (413)
• Philippines
10 Oct 07
yeah... i always check when it was posted.. so i am aware if how long it was posted...
@KarenO52 (2950)
• United States
9 Oct 07
I do most of the time, but sometimes I forget to look, and I find that the discussion is months old. Sometimes if I notice an old discussion that I would have replied to, and it already has a lot of responses, I won't bother to reply because I don't feel I can add anything new.
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@youless (112562)
• Guangzhou, China
11 Oct 07
I don't pay attention to when the discussion was posted. I just care about whether I can share my point of views to it.
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@joshboz (1209)
• Australia
9 Oct 07
yes sometimes it affects the way i respond or if i will respond at all. sometimes i see very good topic with very good respondents to it but when im about to respond to it the date to makes me hesitant to reply. sometimes i do reply to that topic sometimes i just dont because i feel the one who made the topic will even care to read it or just ignore it and just keep busy with more fresher topics he had created.
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@AmbiePam (93739)
• United States
9 Oct 07
Yeah, it seems most people who have been here a while prefer the fresher topics they have to be answered.
@izathewzia (5134)
• Philippines
11 Oct 07
Nope, i don't see how long it is posted already. but i am more of the topic that caught my interest and I can share my opinion better. It is not the time i am after but to the though-provoking topic which squezzes ideas out of my mind.
• China
9 Oct 07
I am new here,I had never looked to see how long ago it was when I answering a discussion,if I like this discussion,I will answer it,no matter how old it was,because I know my answer would be seen sooner or later.
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@Lecaro (1100)
• Romania
9 Oct 07
yes i always look to see how long ago the discussion was posted and how many responses has.. but if i have my own answer i don't think that it matters all those answers or the time when was the question posted!
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@mymytri (2030)
• India
9 Oct 07
Every time.If there is something to say,i see how long ago it was posted.If it is a normal question and started few months ago,i am sure i dont answer.But if it is informative,asking for help,i try to answer it in my view after reading responses .It doesnt matter if it has a lot of responses or few....
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@Ricko82 (584)
• Philippines
9 Oct 07
I do look at the dates when it was posted before. However, as I see that their has been less and less of sensible discussions here in myLot to respond to, I now consider answering discussions posted at a later but with good topic. I hope the person who started that discussion still reads it. My number criteria for answering discussions here in myLot is it must be sensible and deserves my time.
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@peanutjar (5198)
• Canada
9 Oct 07
Hi ambiepam.I have this habit of always looking how long ago it was posted.It doesnt matter the number of responses,as long as it interests me thats all that matters and of course if its a friend.:)
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@MarieJ23 (1040)
• United States
9 Oct 07
I don't regularly check when it was posted but there are times that I became curious and checked it. So far, the oldest post that I ever responded was 8 months ago. I responded to it yesterday, I wasn't aware at first of how old it is already but it doesn't really matter to me as long as I know I have an answer to it.
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• Philippines
9 Oct 07
It doesn't matter to me if the discussion is a week old or had a lot of responses as long as i like the topic and i feel like responding. i really love topics which are educational. :-)
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