No offense, but is there any answers besides "Thanks for sharing. period" ??

Hi corrycrystal, I also received that kind of comment a few times. And it is done mostly by the newbies or someone who have too many started discussion. When someone open too many discussion a received a lot of responses on each and everyone of it, they will not read all the responses and the best way to reply it by saying that "very polite" comment. It is better then nothing. Mylot become more to question and answer forum and not a discussion forum. Creator crate a topic, get responses and creator give a comment ... Full-stop. No more comment back after that. This is very obvious here. Done by newbies or oldies. I just wondering if they know the meaning of discussion. I also stopped at one response if I can't add anything from the comment. But I always try to crate something out of it.

I absolutely agree! It is synonomous of a lazy Lotter only here for the money. Any user who repeatedly comments like that is not interested in a discussion. They will also be very disappointed with their earnings and will probably, over time, receive fewer and fewer responses. We are told to engage others in interesting dicussions and nowhere does it say that myLot is a question/answer site. As you travel the Lot you will realise which users do that and it is your choice whether to respond to them in future or find other Lotters who are willing to discuss with you. There are many of them available

Yes I totally agree. I really get annoyed when people do that. It shows that they are just here for the money, and there not going to get any by just doing that. That's called spam. I usually work and think hard about answering a discussion. I would like to get the same thing back in a comment to my reply.

Oh so absolutely. Some mylotters will do this just to get in and make a quick comment and earn the few extra cents - Not sure, but quite honestly I think we are all guilty of doing this once in a while, myself included. I can see it is pointless and can be rather annoying for everyone.

well, there's also my personal favorite "thanks for responding. happy mylotting". hehe. sorry, i'm in a mood:) if i respond to a discussion and thats the comment i get back from the OP, i won't respond to anymore of that person's discussions. i've only started one discussion but people took time, THEIR time, to respond to me and, imo, they deserve more for that time than a canned one line thank you.

Yes, I have noticed that as well. Although I just joined myLot recently, the several posts that I written for discussions have the same "thanks for sharing" and with nothing else. Of course I understand that sometime a discussion may have too much posts for the creator of the discussion to reply to it all in paragraphs and that's not what I'm expecting at all. However, it's like you said, after writing a pretty constructive comment that I feel that I put my heart into it, I'm kind of disappointed that "thanks for sharing" is all they post back. Then when I go back to the discussion, I see that the creator posted that for everyone else's. It makes me think that perhaps they didn't really read it or something. I rather they not post anything at all rather than the general thank you for sharing comment. If they do want to comment back, I appreciate some ideas or feedback on what they thought about what I say.

well, you are right ., it is not fair to say thanks for sharing especially if the respondent got some questions or clarifications ., we created this discussions for us to share some ideas or opinions ., so i think we shouldn't waste our discussions if its really a good one ., you really got a point ., have a nice day ahead!

I'm new to mylot and and I also make the same mistake but if there is nothing else more to say than why bother right? Just note that not all people are like you, I mean the one who gives straightforward statements which is really good.

Hi corrycrystal, you certainly aren't offending me with your discussion, you are simply raising one of my pet peeves. Simply put I would prefer to receive no response than that particular response, but it does have one advantage. I will remember the person who did respond like that and not bother with their discussions in future but am unlikely to remember them if I get no response at all. The 'sharing' response reminds me of all that touchy feely therapy on TV and turns me right off.

I don't think I've ever said thanks for sharing, I always try to give my opinion...I usually want to extend the conversation.

Even though i am new here i think its pretty lazy and quite rude to respond to people who have taken their time to reply to your discussions with responses like that. Fair enough if you dont have anything contstructive to reply to them with but 99% of the time you do so at least put a little bit of effort into things.

that is so bad for that the one leave!!!