Does it bug you when ...

no i enjoy research and more when it pay me as well

It is frustrating when you make any kind of effort and it's not rewarded. Anyway, I suggest you that you don't give up and keep on making the efforts that you make now. As long as one out of every 100 people makes the effort to use your links, it will be worthwhile.

I normally do not like to give the trouble for the reader to research further for the answer, so I do not give any links. Secondly, I choose the topics only when I have to resources to write. Otherwise I convenience quit that topic. For example, many americans (so also members from other countries) introduce a topic of local problem. I am not in a position to understand their problem and offer solutions or suggestions. Hence conveniently I skip their topic. I provide a link only when that link is useful to most members (utility oriented site) and the information required can be obtained from that site. To follow mylot rules, I do not display the money earning site addresses here. If anyone asks, either I direct them to see my profile page or ask them to send a PM.

of course,it does bug me.my friends who provide me useful links ,i do open them .but others which are time consuming ,i usually avoid.as it is mostly people are here to earn.

Very thankful for any useful links provided by others on the reply. That was cool. However, some links is not really working as it should. Talking about rating of the post, I just rate the post positively, and if the post is not so good, I just ignore it. I don't rate it negatively. Some people rate the post negative when the reply disagree with their point, so it might be better to act rationally, not emotionally when dealing with other people. Dicussion is about "this" and "that", not just "this".

Yes,I do check out the links .But not always .

Hi Luna. It depends on the links, the story, my overall interest and if I am busy doing other things on the computer or in the house. I guess it is a decision based on time and interest. I am not really into the news much anymore, for the simple reason of all the negativity and one-sidedness. Some links are useful for further info, but often the stories are longer than I want to spend time on. Some stories, for me, are detailed enough when a poster presents them. You might say I want minimal involvement and little emotional attachment. And in the grand scheme of things, my opinion is sometimes flexable as I gain more details and at times my opinion hardly matters. That does not bother me at all. I want to be able to trust everything, but the news is far too biased for me to believe it. I would trust you with no problem, but reading some news story gives me pause. I find it difficult to get emotionally charged up because there are always two sides to everything and finding the truth is not so easy. Speaking of links, that is one thing about being on the Internet. You can go on for days following links and what do you really accomplish?

Of course I access the links because there is no such thing as too much knowledge. When someone goes to the trouble to do the research then there is now way to come up with a differing opinion without seeing the full basis of the original post and stance.

Hello my lady, what do you expect? :P The best way is to only give when someone asks - explicitly. You can go out of your way to do research but what's the point if your effort may not be appreciated? Well, the one win here would be that you at least take away your own research result. You can always respond in a vague way and say that if that guy is interested, you would be happy to provide him with the link. If you are talking about something ultra specific, it is not hard for someone to find the link himself anyway. For me if someone gives a relevant link i.e. not some spastic btw referral link, I will normally open it and give a quick glance to see if I am interested to read deeper. You have a good day.