What. Giving Best REsponse In Just Two Days?

Mom I wait for 5-7 days usually to select one as best, at times I forget and when i check 'unresolved discussion' i discover some are months old.

I learned to wait to resolved my discussions in a few days from reading a discussion regarding that, that some people prefer to answer unresolved discussions vs resolved one, I have a page of unresolved discussions and would resolved the oldest one as soon as I make a new one. I am not sure who is behind the times, I do not believe it is against the rules of the site, just what people prefer to respond to.

well i guess youre right giving best responses should be atleast a week or so...but that particular member have different style on here and which could be fine since its what he wants...

I like to give as many posters as possible the chance to leave a comment on my discussion before I choose a best response. I still have a few discussions that I haven't been able to choose just one best answer. I have seen discussions where best response is given within hours of the discussion being posted. Everyone has their own method I suppose. There is no wrong answer.

I wait until I see that the post has run it's course and no one else is responding. What if a better response comes along? You cannot go back and change it.

Well, I truely feel that it extremely unfair on the part of the person who starts any discussion to rate a response as best response, in just 2-3 days. Since it takes time for people to surf around& get too their favourite topics, there should be enough time & opportunity given to people who love writing & try giving heir best to all responses that they post to. I feel 1 week to 10 days should be an ideal duration in which most of the responses would have received. & its then that the owner of the discussion, should finally make a call on which is the best response. Added to this h should ensure to go through all he responses thoroughly before rating an response as BEST. Accept, that his decision wuld be the final as he has the right to declare any response as best, but he should be genuine & unbiased enough, in doing so. the bottom line is .... People who reallly put in a lot of effort in responding should at no point be disappnted, if they are truely deserving..

Well, I try and wait a while before giving a Best Response. But like many here have noticed, I am behind actually when it comes to responding back and giving out Best responses in my discussions, but do what I can. But unless someone was to post something right away that I think fits, I usually wait until I am thru responding back to everyone in the whole discussion before choosing one.

i have seen that tii around mylot. and sometimes i just give a smile. i mean how can you decide a best response in two days or sometimes less than two days. it is okay to pick the best response if your discussion was flooded of 5 or more pages of responses. i've seen members who pick best response in 2 hours and the responses are only 5 responses. it is not really my problem but it is sometimes funny to see people who pick best response while not giving the right span of time for others to response. just my views.

I usually wait a couple of days before giving best response. If I see no-one has posted anything over a couple of days then I give it.

Maybe when the discussion's really popular and there are many good responses already you can award a best response within 2 days. That's very possible. I don't wait for a week or a month. I award a best response when I see something good and if there are more than 10 responses to the discussion already. That's just my own criteria though...so sometimes I don't award a best response even if the discussion is 4 months old because it didn't generate that many responses.

I think it is better to wait, because you never know who will comment and when There is no need to rush a BR, so why do it? I have three unresolved discussions where the last comment was made a week ago. Maybe tomorrow I'll resolve them

Well, i think that maybe the poster was just too happy to find a certain response that answers his discussions and was very satisfied with it. Though, it has only been 2 days, he has marked it as best response. For me it is just fine, if the discussion really interests me i will still respond, though the poster has chosen a best response already.

I always wait 1-3 weeks before giving best responses, So that I will have many comments to choose one from. I so do belive it deprives others from even getting a chance at getting a best Response because say if someone else got the best response and all of a sudden later someonme else wrote something way better then the other person then they got screwed over. Another thing too is that I always wait till I have more then 1 or 2 responses before giving best responses even if my disscusion has been up for a long time. I will say that I have about 6 Disscusions that have been up for awhile and has only one response each so I will wait till I feel that maybe the discussion is a lost cause to give best responses. I will say that maybe about a day or two after I put up my disscusions that I do find someone I want to give best response to but I dont do it right there and then I will wait a while just in case something else better comes along but do note that I remember who I want to give it to just in case nothing else better doesnt come along.

I think two days is way to short to make sure that more people are given the chance to put in their best responses. I normally wait for more than a week and sometimes months before I decide on giving away the best response. The reason for taking that long to decide is because I want to make sure that there will be no more comments intended for that post. I think some people just want to get on with it and would not want to wait for long. And there are people who give the best response to their friends only ans=d therefore, once the friend have responded, the best response would go to him or her. Anyway, this case is very rare but it happened. Cheers!

BR is like love at first sight to me at times.I get so enchanted by the very first response itself once and gave it the BR immediately.At times I wait for weeks.And many times I do not feel like not giving not even a single response.So there is a no rule.I go by what my heart says.

It is to your advantage to wait longer, but I gave one in just one day, recently, just because the responder absolutely hit the nail on the head about what I was hoping to hear, and allowed me to make another good point.

it may need for us to take some time so others who may reply a bit late to the discussion can still have the chance. but really, when a reply is in my discussion and i am impressed by it, i would actually not mind giving it out right away. =) i am sure a lot of people in mylot would not take it against the discussion owner when he or she has already given out the best response, besides some topics are really hard to resist. hehe

I think it would be better to give best responses after one week or after four to five days. Sometimes the later responders does not get a chance to earn best responses. I think may be there might another option like a rating scale like second best response, etc that might be helpful, which can be given after couple of months. I think the discussions should not be closed with best responses within one or two days.

Hi Patsie, We have so many myLotters here and each has his or her own personality. So if someone likes giving best response in just 2 days, so be it. I know of an active myLotter here who said that she will immediately give best response once the first page is filled. Period. It's her choice so I can't gainsay her. *tsk* *tsk*

well, for me.. it there are no more responses like 2 days already and no body had responded? I will choose the best response out of those responses that I got. I will not wait for a long time to give best response. I might forget about it if i will wait for too long? That's what happened when I waited and waited until five months, I forget about my topics hahahaha... I just remember it when I checked my unresolved discussions. I don't it to happen again.