Will you mark it 'best response' even if he/she's the only one who responded?

I have an obsessive compulsive desire to resolve all my discussions. So I not only mark single responses with a 'best response' but I also pm a friend if I have one with a zero response, just so I can get it off my unresolved list. Bad Dawn, bad, but I just can't stand seeing them out there!

I do, babyfuzz. I like to resolve my unresolved discussions at an appropriate time so I do it. I figured that after a given time and no one else decided to post a reply then the BR belongs to that nice fella who took time to do so. Although most of them I'm pretty happy with their lone answers. I've gotten a couple BR's because I was the only one responding. That one makes me feel a little awkward too. One time, I thanked the person for choosing my response over my response, just to be cheeky.

If I have a discussion that is like that and the response does go along with the discussion then I will mark it. However, I have had some that I wasn't sure if the person answering even read the discussion and so I left it unresolved. Thanks for asking and yes, I do feel that we need to make a best response,but it is not always possible.

I will give a single response best response if I feel that the response made sense and was well thought out. I have quite a few zero responses, and a few one responses that I will not resolve because to me the response was not that great. I wouldn't give out a best response if I did not think it was deserving of it.

I'm not sure, but don't we get paid a bit more if we get a Best Response? If we do, then yes I would mark that lone response as best just to give the person a little extra payment. :)

well if its some long time without response I'll give it the "Best response" but I don't give the best response at once like in the first day... :P

Well I don't start many discussions so I do not really have that problem. In general though I would say that if only one person has taken the time to respond to any of your discussions and that response is valid, i.e. more than a couple of words, then they deserve the "best response". That person has taken the time to acknowledge your discussion when nobody else has so why ignore their efforts? On the other hand I have seen where a person has been given "best response" for just a sentence when there were many better responses - at least in my opinion others were better. The person who starts the topic is the one who awards someone a best response so it is really up to them decide who deserves it. I will check out your other discussions and see if I can find anything interesting to respond with. If so, you will have more than 1 response and if not, you are left with just the 1 response unless someone else does the same as I am about to do.

yes actually i have done that just to resolved all of my unresolved discussions..i cannot stand unresolved discussions that have been started like more than a year ago and still with just one response so i give it to him or her...i do not feel awkward about it..it is just but natural.

Yes I would always mark that one response best response even if they are the only ones to respond. They have still taken the time out to respond to my discussion and so it is only fair that they get a reward for it even if there was no competition for it.

[b]hi babyfuzz!! if i see that nobody bothers to answer my unresolved posts, i choose the only person who took time to respond to it as my best response. it is his effort to take time answering my post and i would like to give that person back the credit. i don't really feel obligated to mark a best response. when i see that they put time into to it and that it made any sense to it, then i don't hesitate to mark them their reward.. happy posting and happy mylotting![/b]

I do, but I wait longer to mark those compared to other discussions. Just hope that maybe somebody else might reply, too. If there is only one response, it is the best response by default, lol. If it is a response I don't like or appreciate, I wait even longer but I eventually mark it best response because at least the person took the time to come up with the response. In the end, I really just want to resolve the discussion and get it off my list. I have no problem with that. There is no obligation, but I don't like lose ends;)

No, I never did that way for that reason I have a discussion that has been answered by two person only but I still wait until the other MyLotter would give a response that make me feel comfortable on the required response unto the discussion...

It's not the nobel prize or anythingSo, yup. I'd do it.

i have some open discussions that only 1 responded and i don't think it's fair if i mark it a best response just because he is the only one who put a comment because there's no one to compare it to. nor will i mark a best response if we had a good conversation with the same topic. i will only mark it a best response if it really did satisfy my question. if the only one who commented indeed satisfied my question, i think its' still not fair to mark it a BR. it is still fair enough to wait for a couple more of days for another person to comment. but if there's none then just leave it with no BR, it's obvious that he is the only one interested in the topic.

i admit it, i have. i've had discussions open for over a year and those i just went through and marked some of them and yes, the ones with only 1 response with no hope of resurrection i just marked that one as best response. with those i just want to get it over with. i still have many discussions that people can leave their opinion on.

I really do not want to, unless the response answers my question and is the best one. Sometimes I will go through the responses, and I will mark the first one. If the response is not good enough, and there is only one or two responses, you can wait till doomsday and I will still not mark it as best response.

I will dole out best responses in discussions with only one response, but that's mostly because I like to clear up my unresolved discussions area every few weeks or months (depending on how often I actually start discussions... it seems to come and go in waves lol). You make an excellent point, that it can be somewhat awkward if you don't have much of a response, especially if it's a simplistic answer like, "Yes, I agree with what you posted".

Even if shes the only person who posted on your discussion you still need to choose a best response. It is your way of thanking that person for the time she spend participating on your discussion.

I'll surely give if that's going to be the case. Will read the response at mark it as the best response,it might sound weird but what if he truly deserves??Atleast he/she took all the pains to reply for our post and we should respect and acknowledge them. You can just compare ur view and his view to make the comparison. Just being the only person to have responded is not his/her fault. So,i'll surely mark it as best response if I like the post No matter what others would feel,even what the concerned persom feels.. Cheers

I wouldn't mark it "Best response" Unless it truly was the best response. If there was only one post, and it fixed my problem, then yes, i would mark it best response.