how do you feel when people comment on your post and it is out of context?

Philippines
December 7, 2008 7:15pm CST
since i see to it that i read on every comment that were posted on my topics, i noticed that some would answer or post something that is beyond the context of my post. it seems to me that the simply post just to earn and no to share their own experiences and thoughts on the topic. how do you feel when you come across this situation. do you let it pass or do you call their attention about it? i just simple tell them thank you for taking the time to comment. please share your thoughts.
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21 responses
@legend4u (1019)
• India
8 Dec 08
i have got a experience like that, but that time it was true my content was very poor. two users complained me as they can't understand what i had typed. yes my English is little week. it is not my primary language. how ever even if they have marked me - i respect their words. they have helped me to correct my mistake and that is a very good thing.
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@fwidman (11514)
• United States
8 Dec 08
I would hope that they would not mark you with a minus simply because your english is not as good as theirs. That wouldn't be nice
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• Philippines
8 Dec 08
sorry to hear that, but i don't think they will take that against you knowing that you acknowledge that you got challenges with your English. just make sure that you learn from it. Best regards.
@loxion (1553)
• India
8 Dec 08
Most of the time you will find this kind of a thing when people just read the heading of the discussion and only to find that they get the whole point totally wrong. I mean the heading could be something like "how do you feel about mylot" and find people talking about how great mylot is, how they were introduced to it and how fun they are having here, only to find that your discussion is about the earnings here. I think in most of the time you can easily see when someone has just only read the heading and i always make it seen to them that they read the heading only, not by being rude or something but nicely making them aware of that. But there are times when you totally don't know what the person is talking about, like in the example i gave above, someone might respond talking about how their computer is always connected to mylot or how easily the access mylot, those are the kind which i rate negative But i believe most them do read the heading only
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• Philippines
14 Dec 08
i have experience with that as well. thanks for sharing.
@munhozmib (3836)
• Sao Paulo, Brazil
8 Dec 08
Hello, kenchiprincess. I do not create many discussions here in myLot, but I have already seem things like that. People sometimes respond to a discussion just by its title, meaning they have not read the body of the discussion. And then, their response may be out of context. It never happened to one of my discussions. But if it happened, I would just let it pass. No calling attention nor saying thanks, just a "-" rating for the user. By the way, I believe that everytime anybody here saw something like that, they should rate the user negatively. It shows that people are not putting effort in trying to post quality responses. A quality response must, first of all, match the discussion. Respectfully, Munhozmib.
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• Philippines
8 Dec 08
That is true. we have to be sensitive with some of the users here because at times this people are actually asking for help on things that they undergoing to and if we answer them just to earn out of it that would be unfair. but again we can't stop them if that is how they do it than rating them negative. thanks for the post!!!
@Bebs08 (10681)
• United States
8 Dec 08
Well, if it happened to me, that there is a response out of context in my topic? I will just ignore it. Everyone has his own view on something, so, if ever his respond is out of topic, I will just ignore it. LOL.. I don;t want to insult anyone who is not doing harm except that he is out of topic.
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• Philippines
8 Dec 08
that is true friend that is what i am doing too. happy mylotting and enjoy your Sunday evening!!!
@fwidman (11514)
• United States
8 Dec 08
I just let it pass. I have heard that posting response that are not part of the discussion will not earn you anything, so they are just wasting their time for nothing if they post things that have nothing to do with the discussion topic
• Philippines
8 Dec 08
thanks for sharing. i would do the same thing just let it pass and not give fuss over it. happy mylotting!!!
• Malaysia
8 Dec 08
hi kenci i am not offended at all, because they each individual interprets, the message we are sending differently in one of my discussion, i shared jokes about couples which i found to be funny but instead of looking it at how i was most of the response actually though i had "couple" problems with my partner ..well it was not the issue at all ... we are all from different culture, country, religion, upbringing ... we look at things from different pair of eyes... cheers
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• Philippines
8 Dec 08
thanks for bringing this up. happy mylotting!!!
• United States
8 Dec 08
If their entire response is talking about something that has absolutely nothing to do with my discussion or they read it completely wrong and start criticizing me for the opposite of what I actually said then I point it out. If they answer my question and then go off on their own little rant, I don't have any problem with that. Sometimes thoughts just get sidetracked. I've done that myself.
• Philippines
9 Dec 08
thanks for brining this up. appreciate it.
@SHAMRACK (8576)
• India
8 Dec 08
Dear friend, I hope everyone at least once in their life has distracted. May be the concentration part might have been disturbed. Anyhow if this happens to me I would hope that person would have been just slipped concentration. Also I would be consoling myself that when that person is in better mood, would give a better responds or comment.
• Philippines
9 Dec 08
wow, that's a positive way of handling things like this. appreciate you sharing your thoughts. thanks a lot. happy mylotting!!!
@laydee (12798)
• Philippines
8 Dec 08
I just let it pass. I mean, you can't do anything if they don't get the topic, or they're just there to type and type so that they could earn more. But when they are actually trying to say something and it's obvious that they don't really get it, when I have the time and the patience, I usually just tell them what I meant, to fully let them understand somehow and make them see.
• Philippines
9 Dec 08
if you have the patience to enlighten them. that is good to hear. thanks for posting.
• Philippines
8 Dec 08
When someone comment to my post and its out of context I usually would ignore it but if it is necessary to respond, I would give a reply that would draw him to the topic, I rarely do it though. There are plenty of mylotters whom I have encountered that, but I would still give a certain amount of consideration since we are wishing to earn more in here, possibly these guys are in a rush to achieve something like a number of responses they could do in day. I may say that, I have been into this situation once since I was not reading the content and ask apology for it, since that time I learn to read the discussion thoroughly.
• Philippines
9 Dec 08
experience is indeed a good teacher. we all learn from our mistakes. happy mylotting!!!
@mokbul (616)
• Singapore
8 Dec 08
You are very right. There are many such occurrences in mylot. I feel rather pity for those poor guy, who just respond something without reading or understanding on what the topic is about or what the creator of discussion seeking for. No doubt some of the discussion posted does not give any clue on what the creator looking for rather it is description of some personal events only and comments are also all out irrelevant. After over two months here, it seems that reply to discussion out of context is norm here. One can easily make out which postings are for increasing posting number and which are really meant to share experience of the commentator.
• Philippines
9 Dec 08
but then again we can't stop them if ever this things happen. what i learn from here is before i make comments out of the title i need to read on first the entire discussion or i might bark on a wrong tree. LOL. thanks for the post!!!
@nimnim74 (250)
• Philippines
8 Dec 08
I've encountered that comments also with my post, I just ignore their post and not give them any response, sometimes if they misinterpret my post and she replied in a negative manner in which I never intend to mean it I rated his or her post negative.LOL.
• Philippines
9 Dec 08
thanks for sharing.
@messageme (2821)
• United States
9 Dec 08
I usually just past those ones and don't pay much attention to them. To me they are just posting to make money not to really make conversation with what you are really talking about. I don't rate those ones either.
• Philippines
10 Dec 08
same here i don't usually rate those post. thanks for the share and have a great day!!!
@jenshak (42)
• United States
8 Dec 08
It depends on how out of context a response is. Sometimes it very interesting to see where people will take a simple thought. Which can lead to an whole new conversation. But the ones that when you read and you go "where in the world did that come from?" I simply let go.
• Philippines
9 Dec 08
letting go for me is the best thing to do than calling someones attention about it.
@riyasam (16556)
• India
8 Dec 08
hi,since this is an open forum incidents like these nay happen.i try to ignore. happy mylotting.
• Philippines
9 Dec 08
i do that too as well than replying and making bad impressions with other i prefer to let it go. thanks for sharing.
@rosdimy (3926)
• Malaysia
8 Dec 08
I feel disappointed when comments made on my posts are out of context. It means the discussions did not get anywhere specific. Instead it gets everywhere, muddling up the main point under discussion. I do understand there are people wanting to have a big number next to their user name but ideally it should be done in a proper way. I believe there are also people who got carried away because they did not read the posting properly. So far I have not given a negative mark for out of context comments. I did point out to several of them but this could have earned their wrath. The drop in my star ranking may partly be attributed to this. In several cases they were thanked for and no further comments were made. rosdimy
• Philippines
8 Dec 08
thanks for sharing. i haven't marked anyone negative in here and i would rather not call there attention about it and live it as it is. happy mylotting!!!
@katemeow (847)
• Singapore
8 Dec 08
well, i hope they are not just posting to earn points! but sometimes i think there a communication problem - like some people would misinterpret the discussion therefore giving a really different reaction. for me its okay as long as the response isn't offensive :)
• Philippines
14 Dec 08
that a good point that you have pointed out that the reason why others were not able to reply to the topic well due to misunderstanding of the discussion. thanks for the post.
@eynjel05 (444)
• Philippines
8 Dec 08
Well in that case, if that happened to me, I will understand that person who made that response. Though it's out of context, I will still appreciate because he/she took his/her time in making response to my discussion. As a mylot members, sometimes we have lots of thought that comes in our mind when we are making responses to the different topics here. And we cannot avoid that there are mix ideas that is why we tend to make response that is out of the context and sometimes we are not aware of it My advice is, if you feel that your mind is so tired of thinking of what to answer, please do take a rest for awhile. Remember it is the best feeling to recieved a money knowing that you work hard just to get it. We should not think of the money only here, we should make sure that we all have a quality responses. Thanks and happy posting!
• Philippines
9 Dec 08
thanks so much for sharing your thoughts. happy mylotting!!!
• China
8 Dec 08
i have the same experciences with you in the past time ,and they maked me very depressde.in the begining ,i responsed them politely, and said :thanks foyyour attention.but when the disappothings usually happened ,i chosed facing .first,i smiled and told the man who commented me beyond the context:i must told that you got a biased comment about me again,i'd like to define something about your words.from then on,i can hardly got untruth comments about me,despit that happened to me ,i wouldn't feel depressde.
• Philippines
9 Dec 08
thanks for sharing. happy mylotting!!!
@bellebads (740)
• Philippines
8 Dec 08
i think we have mylot people to take care of that thing for us. i just don't give much attention to the response, i just don't rate it like what i always do to the responses from my discussion. i haven't given negative rate in my entire stay here in mylot for that reason.
• Philippines
8 Dec 08
thanks for sharing your thoughts. happy mylotting!!!