Your criteria of marking the Best Response are.............

I would agree with criteria 1. The second one i give the benefit of doubt as we have a number of users who are not every good at the usage of English. The third point is ok and i am more or less nuetral on that. But i go beyond just the response and see the quality of the futher interation if any in terms of the comments. It so happens that a lot of mylotters have a lot more to say in the further comments.

I usually give the best response to who ever has answered the discussion question for example in the best way. A lot of people must not read some of them properly, as you get replys not even relating to the discussion. I know some people give best response to their friends only, but I myself like a lot of people on MyLot, so I always give best response to the best reply. Well written and understood replys are important, but I myself make spelling mistakes sometimes myself, so as long as there is not too many I do not regard it as important. Take care roselynm.

1- does the response answer my question that is the top priority for me, an example of what will never get a best response is if I say tell me what you would do if... and the answer comes back, why don't you.... hey this discussion was not about me, I asked you so don't tell me, what I should do, many times I give a hypothetical question because I want to know what people feel, so it is very important that the person answer back in this situation I would .... or, if I say give me an example and the person doesn't they will not get a best response.

When I award a best response I always look at the effort that the user has spent to write his post. Some are shallow while others have made some research before posting, or else they are knowledgeable about the subject. I prefer those who are helpful.

Mine is basically the same as yours. However, I do try to select someone who is relatively new to myLot to give the best response to (obviously they must meet the other criteria, too) because I think it will encourage them and make them happy. Personally, I don't care about best responses. I give my opinion and that's that. I'd rather see the best response given to someone who is new, maybe a bit insecure about the ins and outs of myLot and hasn't made many friends yet. I feel that the best response can have more of an affect on them than on someone who's been here for a long time.

Hi roselyn, I dont have any particular criteria of giving away my best respond but i do have a basis too. 1st.I like to award Best respond to mostly newbie here to incourage them to post more. 2nd. The respond should be helpful for me it doenst need to good in grammar as long i understand the post. 3rd. It should be lenghty atleast more than 5 lines for the time and effort they give. 4th if i got only one response to a discussion i give it to the responder without thinking. Anyways a dont have any problem who to give the marks for i only have few responses in my discussion.

My idea of marking it with BR is that it should be the apt and smart response.Nothing else.

There should be some variations in that reply. also the reply that much to the point, is good as a candidate for best response.plus that response should not be just one liner.

That's a great criteria you got there. As for me as long as they provide the best insight in answering the question I definitely mark it as best response. It might take a long time for me to mark one as best response but surely I mark one in every discussion I make.

Those are great tips and I do look at those areas as well. To me I would look at the responses based on: 1. The relevancy of the response to the discussion. Some people never really read the discussion completely and then gave some irrelevant responses. 2. It must have at least one full sentence and if those relevant responses have more sentences, than I would choose that. The key here is that the response must be relevant as long response but not relevant would not be chose either. That's my main criteria for selecting the best response. As far as grammar is concerned, I would not be too concerned about that for as long as the response could still be fairly understood. I am more concerned about spelling though but one or two mistakes would be forgivable and could still be the best response for a discussion. Cheers!

I basically agree with this. First and foremost I want my question answered. *LOL* And of course I want it to make sense. I understand about grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc., but I also understand that for some people here, English is not their first language. If I can understand what they are trying to say, AND they have provided me the best answer out of everybody who responded, then they will be awarded the "best response". :)

well for rating best response my criteria is as below 1. does the response answer my question 2. i do not consider few word responses. 3. answer should be clear as to what the mylotter is trying to say. 4. simple language

I dont think you need polite words because its gotta be an argumental kinda post as well in some cases.

I agree with your criteria, taking into account that some MyLotters don't have English as their mother tongue. First of course, I'd exclude all 'bad answers', which didn't help me out. Also the posts for easy money won't get rewarded. For me, it's very important that people stick to the question and be polite, towards me and even more towards other people with opposing opinions. Even if my question seems stupid/obvious, people can still answer in a nice and clear way, if I'm just asking info I don't need personal opinions about my knowledge, or the lack of it in certain fields. The best answers are from people who really try to understand the question, not just reading through quickly and posting whatever comes in their mind, instead of thinking twice and try to imagine how the asker feels. Just as in real life actually, how would I like my question to be answered there? In a clear and correct way of course, but also polite and empathetical manner.

Well i go through a set procedure when marking best response. First of all i will leave the discussion at least a week after all responses have stopped, then i will go and read through them all again. After this i will cogitate over which one actually best answers the question, only then will i award best response. I like getting them so i take the award of them seriously blessed be

I chose what I think is the most honest and well thought of answer as my best response.

The criteria I look for would be 1. Answer to the question meaningfully OR 2. Reply to the topic meaningfully I do not check on the grammar or spelling. I make sure that every discussion that I started has a best response. There are times when the discussion has only one comment, then I will just mark that as best response as there is no other to compare with.

I usually choose the best response in my discussions after a few days from starting. Every now and then, I check on the responses. I mark as the best the one which had the greatest impact on the topic. I usually choose the one which got stuck into my mind the most.

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