have you notice these question are beening repeated over and over and some

Being new is not an excuse to you, but to me it is. I remember as a new member there were a lot things that I did not know, and even older members might not want to go do the "leg work" to find out how many discusssion have the same questions they want to ask. Not a lot of people have unlimited time to be on the computer.

I have noticed this too, But im also guilty of doing this.. there was aquestion that I wrote and when I posted it I saw that the question was posted over and over gaian!..I felt so stupid but I couldnt take it back. So now What I do is I search for my question before I postit. I just dont want anyone thinking Im trying to steal their discussions..

yes I think so but then the newbies dont know how to go about doing that also they ask in a different way . But on some things it gets very tiring to see the same thought come in another post!

have you noticed that THIS question in regards to repeated questions has been repeated repeatedly? redundant much?

Yes there are lots of questions here that have been posted before. And I for one feel so lazy answering the same question over again. However there are discussions which are of the same topic but still worth discussing because they are taken on different perspective. Sometimes, they are based on the current personal experience and hence the poster was encouraged to post without researching if there had been similar topics because anyway the contents are his own and certainly could not be exactly similar than the post discussions. What I can't tolerate are those topics that are very obviously stolen from another user.

annjilena you are so correct! I was here for about an hour the other night, hoping someone would start a "new" discussion. My brain was vacant at the time... I couldn't even help myself LOL

Yes I do agree with you. I have read posts which their title was photocopy and similar to that of mine. On the other hand its not the first time that it happens to me as well. As soon as I submit a posting I realize that there is another posting with a similar subject. I think we have to do more research before posting.

I think being new is a pretty good excuse. I remember that I would not have known how to research a topic before posting a question when I first started. It is the people who have been here long enough to know, but still post repeated questions that I get bugged by.

well we have almost 150,000 members here so there is going to be some slight duplications of discussions. also some members here take any discussion that has a bit of the thread of another in it as being a repeat,when it is not really becausethe discusser thought of a new, completely new asp;ect of the others discussion, something thatwas not in the original discussion at all.So I would tred lightly when accusing someone of repeating a discussion over and over, unless you are referring to the zillion what flavor of ice cream do you like? I could come along and ask what flavor of ice cream makes you really sick when you taste it, and want to vomit, and why do you think it does that? Were you forced to eat this flavor as a child? Now I am being really silly here but this would be a new slant on the same old, same old.

i know. i have seen the same questions 50 times in one year.

Yes, especially lately. But I just figure maybe people haven't seen the other posts so they don't know it has already been asked. I know I don't know a lot of what has been posted either. Especially for new people. It doesn't bother me.

hi ann, when i started yes i had a lot of difficulties with ideas, now i come up with something i find different, i talk on topics related to OLD WOMAN, MY CHOICE OF LOVE POETRY, MY FEAR OF TATTOD MAN , COUPLE JOKES ... but it seems like only my group of friends especially the senior give their comments ... I have only got 12 in one discussion, others i will get from 2 ~ 5 comments only. I feel that if i have more than 5 it is an achievement for my discussion Other mylotters seems to like the simple questions and as you put it repeatative ... Maybe they are here only to get the "number of comments" rather than love mylot for the information cheers

You're probably right about repeated posts, but I, for one, don't want to go back through the archives to see whether or not my discussion has been there before. I also agree that some post don't make any sense, but I've wondered if some of that is because English is not the writer's first language. At lease they're making an effort with the language and you have to congratulate them for that.