Does this bother you?

I agree with you as well. I have not been a member very long, but I still try to give quality discussions. Mine are always more than two sentences. And, bad grammar is actually a pet peeve of mine. So, a couple of typos is a bit annoying. But, what annoys me the most is people who try to type with words like "dat" and "dawg." Sure I don't speak the way I type. But, I'm just using correct english. It's a common courtesy unless english is not your first language which I can respect.

Very god points but...... Why wait till a member has 6 months under their belt here? New members need frioends as well. I was very elated to have people add me right away as opposed to waiting 6 months etc. We all need the friends here to earn actually be they oldtimers or newbies really. The only one I have as a peeve is the one liners when a member has been told by friends etc not to start them as they are violations of thre guidelines. No other pet peeves for me really here. HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~

I feel the same way, but I don't have the same restrictions as you do Tina. When adding friends, I just look at the profile. Never mind how long they have been on MyLot, because we too were at a point once where we had been here for less than 6 months. I look at the discussions they have started and replied to. I look to see if they are written in some sort of understandable way, and that they are more than one line discussions/responses. I also look to see if they are of interest to me. If they don't meet these simple guidelines, I refuse the request. Nothing personal, just if I can't find those very basic things, then a friendship between us here would do us no good at all. I also don't expect the friends on my list to respond to every discussion that I start. If I were to respond to all the discussions that my friends started, I would never get off the computer lol. What I do is respond to the discussions of my friends that interest me the most. I figure that way I would be able to give my best response, and not just a one word or one sentence response.

The only thing that really bothers me is when people are blatantly rude. I understand having a difference of opinion, but I don't understand attacking people just because you can. Or following people to a post just to attack them personally, when what they have to say has nothing to do with the discussion itself. I can't complain about not replying back, because I have been guilty of that myself. When I have posted a discussion and gotten more responses than expected, it becomes difficult to answer to every single response.

It doesn't bother me actually. Anyway I just respond to discussion that I like though. And I undertstand that some mylotter are not really English speaking people and they just try their very hard to speak in English and they thought that they write it correctly base upon the sound of the word. With it... I try to anaylized what the person is talking about and if it doesn't make any sense at all I just drop it off. What bothers me as those people who try to correct those who respond on their created discussions as if they are pro and perfect and you are not. They bugs me... aren't they would be instead thankful because someone had joined in their discussion? I also respond to my friends discussion if I have something to say about it. I dont want to pretend I knew where the fact is I dont. Well... we could be friends then. Happy mylotting to you.

Hello there KrauseHome. Yes, I agree with you that there are people who always started a discussion and dont really showing they want to discuss about it. I come across few discussion that has no brief description on the topic. Maybe this kind of people has no idea at all what they are doing. Or maybe their intention is just money, not really want to discuss. About the spelling error, I myself sometimes do the same thing. It may because English is not my mother tongue. But, I keep myself re-read my post to scan for anything that should not happen; eg - spelling error. Human, however, tends to make mistake. So, dont bother it so much and you will be okay. To added more, I dont like people to use shortform because sometimes I dont get what they are saying. Futhermore, I know there are some people, so eager to have their discussion being respond by their friends. Some also begging their friend to respond to their discussion. But, they very rarely respond to their friends discussion and evenmore, some never respond to their friends's discussion. I know because my father's friend did the same thing to my father. Best of luck. :)

oh,i can relate to you.i have seen such people here.though ,there are no criteria for me to approve their friend request,i do get annoyed ,if for a long time they do not start quality discussions.

I delete people who never respond to me, I don't like the one or two liners but then I take into consideration if the person is struggling with english there are so many people on her that english is not their first language,

I dont really have a set pattern on how I start my disscussions, because sometimes I go into great details and other times I do not. I always answer the posters that i have to answer and then begin to respond to the other discussions. I know some people have more time then others also which is another thing to take into consideration. I like to try to post to everyone here and there as much as possible. Merry Christmas!

It does not really bother me if there are people here who starts discussion with one liner and with spelling errors. I think I just have to skip them and need not bother about them. It is to their loss anyway if their discussion is just one liner. They will not be earning as much as those who make their posts really descriptive and sensible. It is also to their loss because they will not be earning good number of responses if that is their style. What bothers me sometimes though is if I have a friend who do that kind of thing and then my mailbox will be flooded by notifications of senseless discussions. I however have learned to get rid of that by screening the friends whose notifications have to be turned on. Now my mailbox is not flooded anymore because I turned off every notification of friends who are fond of making so many new but senseless discussions each day. I would love to receive many notifications provided they are sensible ones because that means I have opportunity to participate in good number of discussions. With regard to friends, actually I do not really screen. Any one who requests friendship, I accept whether newbie or old-timer. It is always a pleasure to be offered a friendship and I love to add up a friend who could be another source of good discussions I could participate in. So I don't really have to reject anyone. However after having accepted their friendship, that is the time I would observe what kind of friendship they could offer me. If I see that their discussions are almost always non-sense, I'd tun off the notification, and also if I noticed they are not supportive friends as well, I also do not give full support. Well, mylot is a give and take relationship so those who do not give can only get occasional support from me. But to those supportive ones I give 100 percent support all the way.

Oh it irritates me bad. I can't stand bad grammar and what not. I come to MyLot for the peoples opinions on matters I care about and when you half try making a discussion, it takes away from the forum. Not just taking away from the forum, but it takes away from the reputation of the forum. A lot of these people who just can't make topics that make any sense to anyone should just find something else to do. Thanks for bringing this to everyone's attention! I knew I wasn't the only one getting angry over this.

Yes, I agree with you. Now many people like to discussion another topic when you are talking this topic, and even don't answer your question. But this don't bother me. You know, I like to stay with my friends, and we like to discuss different topic, and maybe this make us relax, and we feel really happy.