Unresolved Discussions - How Good (or Bad) are you?

I never let mine get older than 4 weeks. I figure this is long enough to get most of the responses I need to decide on a best response.

Howdy Pro, I don't even try and resolve mine until they are about 6 months old. i have found that when I do it earlier some one will come along and give me an even better response. There are some discussions I have had that I knew there was not going to be a better response because someone had hit the nail right on the head, those I resolve straight away, but most of the time I let them bide time.

Hello theprogamer, I can't beat your record..LOL, I had just giving my BR to the deserving members last week and those topics were posted 3 months ago..LOL, Honestly, I never knew how to resolve those until I bump a topic talking about it and give me an idea! thanks for that post! Cheers!

I'm as bad as you, I'm afraid! I go in spurts, now and then for some unknown reason I'll go through and resolve a bunch of my discussions until something distracts me from that task, sometimes an old discussions will come back up, as you said, and that will remind me to get to it and a few months ago my friend here, Grandpa Bob had posted about how he'd finally resolved all of his discussions except for his most recent ones and that inspired me to try to get mine done - but, they're still not done! We're not alone in this, Pro, because now and then I'll see I got a BR and when I go to it I find it was from months ago so others do it too! I guess I'll go get some resolved right now, until something else catches my eye...lol! Annie

I have only 6 discussions that still has no Best response. And one of them is 11 months old!Well, I have a very valid reason for this.It only has one response and I'm still waiting for someone to come along and give an answer so I can have a comparison. The only time that I had a pile of unresolved discussions was when I was a newbie. I didn't know what the "unresolved discussions" was for. Now, whenever I post a discussion, I try to choose the best answer when there's more than 10 who have responded. Most likely, I can already choose the best one. But there were times that I waited for more responses because the ones who have already shared their views didn't really come close to the answer I was looking for.

excuse my ignorance, i guess i might know the answer to my question if i had spent a bit more time reading the FAQ or finding out evere little detail about mylot, but what are unresolved discussions? is there a need to resolve the discussions you open? i haven't noticed any difference among the discussions i've read or responded to so far... thank's for the help

Thanks, for the BR's. I even went from a #1 to a #2!

Oh I'm horrid with not resolving my discussions LOL every so often though I'll get a reminder (like your thread here LOL) and get some of it done....

I am trying to do the same thing. Unfortunately, I have several that are a year old and have no responses. I also have a few with noncontributory responses if you know what I mean. If the response is halfway decent and has something to do with my actual discussion, I am marking best responses. When I started my crusade, I had 14 pages of unresolved discussions. I am proudly down to 3. PS. I love your avatar!

Well I will say that I have pages and pages of discussions that I have to resolve at last count I think I have 5 pages I'm going to really have to plan a day to resolve these discussions. LOL! I would have to say I'm worse than you I might not have them from 6-8 months ago but I start a lot of discussion so you would think after a week I would just simply pick a best response but no I just let them pile up and up and up. LOL!!

I have some discussions that just have one or two responses in that case it seems kind of silly to issue a best response. If you have one response obviously that is the best one. I dont know if I will ever mark those.

I'm somewhere in the middle. Sometimes I forget to resolve them and sometimes I don't. It just depends on what is going on with the discussions and how interesting they are for that day. I usually resolve them when there isn't much going on.

Well, I've got 8 pages of unresolved discussions. It's hard for me to decide who to give the best response to. Oftentimes, I only get 1 or 2 responses to one of my discussions because they aren't really popular here or the two responses I have aren't relevant enough to merit such. It's a tough decision, sometimes.

i want to respond but dont know how to respond my english is not that good

I go on these sprees twice a month when I select the best responses in bulk! Its fun actually - I get to re-read all the responses and feel enlightened!

Me, i have so many unresolved discussion. I am more bad than you think of yourself. I used this discussion to say sorry for those members who gladly reply to my post and haven't received their ratings or best response. I am so busy that i can just log in to mylot and reply to my friends post like you. I have no time to do a discussion of my own since i have so many unresolved discussion. There will be a time that i can finished my discussion.

I do that, and even though every so often I spend hours trying to 'resolve' them - there are so many! Thanks for so many best responses btw !

I go by my gut. If I like something I mark it as best response. If I don't get one that really is great, I wait to give it time. Then I go back and mark them based on what is there. That's my plan.

At least you can say that your discussion was so interesting that it is still getting comments. That's a good thing no?

I always wait a while before making my best response choice as I want people to have achance first to read my discussion. then after a couple of months I will start giving my best responses. I am always a bit behind but I do get there eventually.