If i discussion get over 100 responses, do you still respond to it???

Now that I've known that I can also earn by giving long comments, I now always comment back to each and every one of my respondents and I make sure my responses are long enough to earn points for me. I never tire up even if the answer that I wanna hear has been given already by previous respondents because I believe each respondent should be given equal appreciation for taking time to respond and support my discussion. It is not a waste of time for me because those respondents never thought they will be wasting my time in participating in my discussion. It would be too unfair to them if after all the support, I'd consider answering them a waste of time. The more respondents I have the more happy I am in responding back. I believe I never wasted my time by doing so. As a matter of fact by doing that way I have established good friendship around.

What difference would it make? Most people don't bother reading anything past the opening post, and there are many who don't read past the headline. Besides, not every popular discussion is actually worth reading, it seems to me that a lot of the big response topics are meaningless drivel. And a lot of those around the 20 - 30 mark are riveting. Lash

If the topic is interesting to me and the question posed is thoughtful, then I will read at least the first page of comments. I'll get the tone of the arguments from the first page and then give my own response regardless of what the rest of the respondents have said. I like to think that the discussions are chances to interact with the OP and not just a fluid conversation with the whole community. Sometimes the way you frame your comments, although they might be similar in content to other posts, can promote further discussion or prompt different thoughts and responses from others. It is difficult to track discussions when they get so large, so as a poster I recognize the way that myLot brings responses in my threads to my attention. As a contributor to threads, myLot makes it easier for me to track my specific responses from my profile, so it's easier for me to approach most discussions as a one on one with the OP first and then in a more broad context with the rest of the community if the discussion is really interesting. Cheers.

i'd still respond to a discussion with over 100 responses of course i'd read through all the responses to make sure i wasn't going to repeat what anyone else has said. then i would simply re word what i was thinking of saying lol.

What difference the number of responses that a discussion already has? It really isn't a competition you know. It is a matter of interest, if a discussion is interesting and you have a relevant opinion than you should add it to the discussion, I always do. Oh yes, I know there is the "competition" of "best response' but who cares, really. That is such a waste really. The point should be to generate interest and add value to the community. You never know when something you say might be the one thing that someone else needs to hear.

yes ,I will,I don't care how many responses you got,I will respond as long as your discussion is interesting.

It would depend on the discussion and the responses already received. There are times when I read through a discussion and what I would have said has already been covered by others. Those discussions I generally just let go, whether they have 1 or 101 responses already. It would not surprise me actually of this discussion attracted a lot of responses because of the nature of it. If we were guided by the principle that we do not respond to a discussion where what we would say has been said already, this particular discussion would only get 2 responses. lol Those responses here would basically be "yes" or "no", although using a few more words than that as we are not supposed to give one word responses. With other discussions however after I have read the responses, if there is something that I feel I can add then I will do so. I have seen some discussions where only one basic viewpoint has been given when there might be several options. Oh and not all discussions with a large number of reponses are high quality and no offence intended to any discussion started. Some time ago I do recall seeing a discussion about the username and it had hundreds of responses. Interesting to read how members chose their username but that is all ... at least for me anyway.

It is difficult. If it has a lot of responses then I do not look at every one as it takes too long. If they are asking for help on something then I will assume that someone has given the answer I would have and not respond. If it is asking for my personal opinion on an issue or something like that and I am interested in the topic then I will respond to say what I think. Someone else may have similar ideas to mine but may not say it in quite the same way that I do.

i dont even notice how many have responded to discussion. i just respond to discussions that i am familiar with when i check my email. and i just add my view, whether people have said it or not. it is interesting to take a survey to see how many people have responded similarly and how different each view and answer is.

If I feel strongly about a discussion, it doesn't matter how many people have already responded, I'll say my piece anyway. But I doubt that what I've written gets read.

i would first go the topic for the reason why it has thet much of responses .if i feel it is interesting to me i will respond to the discussion.

The number of responses does not stop me from responding.I really never take into consideration the amount of responses the topic has.I usually just respond to the ones i would like to.

I try to read all the responses but not always. If a discussion has lot of comments I shall still put my opinion there, although as you said that it will be a wastage. The very reason is I would like to express my self here, if someone has the same feeling that matches with mine, I shall support him in addition to expressing my feeling. Some may feel that that I have just copied someones posting to fabricate mine, but it is not true. I read the topic first, it may not be very quality one but if I feel interested i shall prepare my responses in the mind, then read through other comments and post my comment.

I don't care if someone has already said what I want to say. I just respond to it.

To me the number of response is not important in a discussion. I always look at the interest part of the discussion. if i see that the discussion is interesting to me and that I can add something to it than I respond to it otherwise might leave it all together because there is no meaning in posting something which does not interest me. Specially there are few stupid questions which are posted almost everyday like which is the best browser and which is the search engine which you prefer. I.e. product of such petitions and I'm really looking forward to good quality questions. Of all the developments on this website this is a topic which should be given some importance to stop idiotic things.

When I first read your post, I was going to say no I wouldn't respond because I like to read through all the responses first, and it would be too time consuming. But having read what everyone else has to say, I think I've changed my mind. I was particularly influenced by the person who said everyone writes in a different style. I have read some discussions where the answer to a question was invariably the same from everyone. But how they expressed it, and their reasons for answering that way, were really interesting. So, yes, if the topic interests me and I think I have something to add, I will do so, even If I don't have time to read through to the end of all the responses.