do you look to respond to discussions that others have with no responces?

United States
July 26, 2008 4:06am CST
i know i hate it when i have no responses to my discussions so i try to look through the "no responses" tab for discussions that other people have made to respond to so that less people will have zeros.. i dont get around to doing it much but i feel that some discussions are good but just get eaten in mylot.. does any one else do this?
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@movicont (495)
• United States
26 Jul 08
I also try to do so. It's often nice for them to know that their thread isn't being ignored. Especially if the discussion they initiate is a question-answer type thing, then it seems even more courteous to just give them an answer. Sometimes I'm slightly sad that good discussion topics are lost in the no response section due to bad luck whereas banal topics make it to the front page. I really wish there were a button in myLot that allowed me to hide discussions I no longer wanted to see. Would make my front page a lot cleaner.
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• United States
26 Jul 08
i wish they had that feature to where you could take back some zero discussions or your comments to others.. of course that would defeat the purpose but i have responded to a few i wouldnt want certain people to see and i didnt think about that till i almost invited them the other day lol.. oh well i need to think before i type
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@Wizzywig (7847)
26 Jul 08
yes, I do that. I think that, often, people have come up with a good topic for discussion but for some reason it just doesn't get answered. I've seen the point made that the simple 'whats your favourite....' are easier to answer and that there are people who are more interested in clocking up large numbers of posts than giving thoughtful responses. I suppose the timing may be a factor although, with members from around the world, you'd think there would be people with a wide variety of interests online pretty much all the time. I tend not to reply to those that already have several responses unless its a topic I have strong feelings about. There is an element of laziness there as I dont want to just repeat what someone else has said but I dont really want to check through 40-odd responses.
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• United States
26 Jul 08
i try to only respond to discussions that sound like the poster actually cared and put thought into it.. other wise what is the point?
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• United States
9 Aug 08
that seems to be how it always works.. my more boring things are a hit compared to other ones
@Wizzywig (7847)
26 Jul 08
exactly...if the poster doesn't care, why would anyone else? I did actually start up a couple that i thought were quite boring just by way of experiment - those are the ones that got most responses so, obviously, everyone else thought all the others I started were the boring ones
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@AshleyHasan (1024)
• India
26 Jul 08
Yes I always check no responses first and then respond to some discussions which I feel comfortable.
• United States
27 Jul 08
i do my friends first because my friends usually always answer mine and i want to return the favor when i can then i choose the no responses and when i do keep on top of mylot i get to often
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@DarkDancer (1011)
• Dayton, Ohio
26 Jul 08
Generally when I get on mylot, I check, discussions my friends have started (I don't have it set up to e-mail me discussions that all my friends have started, I get too much e-mail as it is ), then Discussions from My Interests, then Discussions with no responses. After tht, I usually check hot Discussions or new or something. I only respond to discussions if I can add something that I feel is meaningful.
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• United States
27 Jul 08
yeah i have all my friends on notify and it can be horrible some times just because i get so behind
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@saundyl (9783)
• Canada
26 Jul 08
I go to no responses all the time and try to repsond to the older ones. I know it drives me nuts to have the 3 or 4 from when i started on here in unresolved all the time. I think though it would be nice if there was a link for us to see our friends zero responses.
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• United States
27 Jul 08
i know that would be awesome!!
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@kenzie45230 (3560)
• United States
26 Jul 08
I do try to do that, if not once a day, at least a few times a week. I always feel badly if there is a discussion with no comments. Often times, they are good discussions, but by rather newbies. They haven't learned yet that it's almost impossible to get a discussion going when you're brand new.
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• United States
27 Jul 08
yeah i know i was here about a week or two (probably two) before i got a lot of responses just because people didnt know me
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@nancyrowina (3850)
26 Jul 08
I like to if the discussion is a good one that has just been over looked, but you do get a lot of rubbish one line discussions in there too and it's no surprise they don't have any responses. Mylot moves so fast there are discussions that just slip off the list straight away and no one sees them those are the ones to look for.
• United States
26 Jul 08
yeah i make sure they are worth answering before i even consider them..
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• India
26 Jul 08
Yeah, I respond to such discussions too. Actually, any discussions that come in my way and I feel like responding to..
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• United States
26 Jul 08
i have all my friends on notify and i try my best to answer any i think i have something to offer for.. unfortunately some times i get behind and have to skip through some but i try!! lol
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@misty99 (736)
26 Jul 08
At times yes i do check out some topics that have zero responses. Specially if i don't see any topic on the hot/new/today's top discussions that gets my interest.I had the same feeling as others who gets zero response.It pays at times when you give a part of your thought,opinion,ideas,advices to them.They would sometimes check your topics and respond to it.
• United States
27 Jul 08
yeah i have even noticed that this discussion helped my zeros lol.. which was not my motive for it since i wasnt thinking about myself but cool anyways
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@Vladilyich1 (1454)
• Canada
26 Jul 08
Yes. When I've finished running through all of my friends' notifications, I go to the tab "discussions with no responses. Every so often, there are some really good ones in there. There are a lot that don't deserve responses, too.
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• United States
27 Jul 08
yeah some of them are just dont have any depth at all to be worth responding to
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@shelly43 (1197)
• Australia
26 Jul 08
hi hun i am only new to mylot and what your saying is a great idea so im going to go looking for those posts as i know some of mine that i think have been rather interesting i have had no response so i will do that so it brings a discussion that is great to the surfers.. great idea thanks hun hugssssssssssss
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• United States
26 Jul 08
seems like to me the more interesting ones i make the less responses i get lol
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@reckon21 (3479)
• Philippines
26 Jul 08
That's what i been doing lately. I always look for post on the no responses because i also know how it feel s when no one is replying on your post. 99% of my responses belong to no responses.This my way way of giving back what i receive.
• United States
26 Jul 08
yeah i try to do it as much as possible after i take care of any of my friends that have discussions i like
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• United States
27 Jul 08
The very time I wrote a discussion, I was so scared that no one would respond!! I usually look under "no responses" first when I am one the Discussion tab! Have a great night!
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@chandu245 (647)
• India
26 Jul 08
Hi, according to me if no body responses to my tab for discussions then i think that i should give a good discussions which can help to the people or which is good for discussion. I won't stop responsing to other discussions but i will improve my discussion tab.
• United States
26 Jul 08
oh i dont stop responding to other peoples.. just amazes me how many discussions never take off and they are actually good ones
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@academic2 (7000)
• Uganda
27 Jul 08
Yes think it is good feeling to try to give a response to a discusion without any -chances are that you could get a BR, and BRs are very nice to see atop your response
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• United States
27 Jul 08
yeah i have gotten quite a few br because of being one of the only people to answer.. its nice but kind of sucks just because you didnt have much or any competition lol
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
26 Jul 08
moon This is so sweet of you. On my part I do make it a point to resolve no responses of others whenever I get time. Trust me, it feels so much better once I do it. Yes, many times good discussions get lost in the hordes of discussions here and I did find some great discussions with no responses but a few months older. And guess what, it got alive after I responded. Happy Mylotting.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
26 Jul 08
hi moonlitmagikchild i do sometimes if the topic interests ]me as I also dislike not having responses. but a lot of times the discussion is just not interesting at all and that is why nobody is responding.
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• United States
27 Jul 08
yeah there are some bad ones out there
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• Colombia
27 Jul 08
Sometimes. There are some goods discussions that nobody has responded. Giving responces encourage people to share good ideas.
• United States
27 Jul 08
yeah i think it helps out peoples self confidence to do so
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@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
27 Jul 08
Yes I do. I feel bad if I see someone is not getting any responses. I know how I feel when I don't get any. It's true some discussions get so many and others get just a handful. I have't really figured it out how that happens. I know from personal experience that mine, even though I seem to have alot of friends don't get as many as I hope they would but I'm still happy that I get to respond to as many as I can. That's the fun of mylot! As long as I'm participating I feel great!
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• United States
27 Jul 08
I do this from time to time. I too get discouraged when I get no responses to some of the discussions I have started so I want to give people the opportunity to get their discussion seen, especially if it's a good one!
• United States
27 Jul 08
yeah help every one out.. so many people dont even think to look there that some could never go anywhere