When Responding To Discussions, Do You Read The Other Responses First?

Sometimes I do and sometimes I don't. If there are 200 responses, there's really no point in wasting time reading all of the responses.. But then again - it really just depends on the question that the person is asking. If someone is asking for advice about a personal situation..I can understand why someone might not want to repeat the same thing over and over again, but then again, if it's asking a survey-like question (such as: how many hours do you sleep per day?) or something like that - then why not?

Yes I usually read them because I don't want to repeat what others have said already. It would be just wasting time.

I try to do that as much as possible , but sometimes there are a lot of responses , I cant read them all .. so I read some and then make my own response .. have a great time Man

I try to read responses before I post a reply. The thing is tht sometimes there are just so many responses it is hard to read them all sometimes. Also sometimes someone might seem to repeat the same advice, but their reply will be more interesting, or informative, or present the same idea in a different light. So I don't think repeat answers are always a bad thing.

NO, i like to answer what i think, and after i will reading other answers, and compare. But i will read few answers if i don t understand very good the question. I think that is better not to read other answers, don t influence my honest answer. I don t know if is good or bad, is just my style

I do it from time to time. But there´s often very long and large threads, and in the case is repeated info, some times, is not always the case, but there are people that are willing to know the opinions of all the people. I mean, like a kind of survey. Then they can get a better idea. For example, when talking about a program someone says that it´s very good, the second says the program the last poster was very good, I think it´s very useful to the original poster of the thread to know that fact, even if it´s repeated

Yes I do spend a lot of time reading what others have to say in their responses. Most of the time if I see a reply that would be what I would have said I just go to another discussion. Who wants to read a dozen replies if they all pretty much the same? If there are a lot of replies I just skim over them then move on because most have covered anything I could have added.

I try to read all of the responses but it depends on how many there are and how much time I have. there are times that in order to answer the question again,you have to repeat something that someone else has said.