Understanding Discussions...

Some times it just happen like that. we are not working full time for mylot . We do this work when we have some leisure time, and we are from different countries and ethnic groups, our understanding are different and our culture too.For example I responded to a discussion called Jericho, it is actually a film running in US. Seeing Jericho I thought of Jericho in Israel so I wrote in a different way.So what you have to do is explain us what you meant by that giving some heading/sub heading or people from certain countries should respond to it.Also u have to forgive us when we are wrong.( this is witout any grudges) Thanks.

sure, you are right, sometimes i will recieve the answer that the discussions don't mean. i just to receive it ,and don't give me some adive for me. i will receive the answer that can help me a lot.

Hi jelly. Sure I've seen this happen before. A couple of times it was due to plagiarists. They had the nerve to copy other peoples discussions/responses from right here on mylot and pass them on as their own. The first time I had seen it happen I recognized the response word for word, but it came from a completely different user. If I remember right, this user was doing this to a lot of posts and was completely abusing the copy/paste feature. The user has since been deleted. Not sure if he/she ever came back though. Another time a person made a response that made no sense at all. Even though it had to do with the interest at hand - driving - it had nothing to do with the discussion itself. It made me rather suspicious as to why they would respond the way they did, so I went to their profile to take a look. It was there that I had found out what had been going on. They were posting the same response under the same interest, no matter what the discussion was about. Sometimes they'd switch a few words around, but other than that it was the same response for each discussion that they had responded to under a particular interest. Other times people just read the subject line and respond to that. I don't understand why they can't read the discussion itself. It's not that hard to do, and they might just learn what it is about instead of just taking a stab in the dark, just so they can make a quick penny or 2. You might want to take a look at these peoples profiles...just in case. I might be wrong, but it sounds like the same thing that I've seen around mylot before. If that is the case admin needs to be notified of these users so that they can delete their accounts.

hi jellymonty, Yes sometime everyone gets very vague answers to their discussions and sometimes we mis understand the question and then answer as we have understood it. As far as i am concerned i would never answer a discussion unless i have read it but i can not grantee what me and the author of that discussion are on same wavelength and if we are not on same wavelength then the answer would definitely look vague. Also no this discussion wont be deleted unless mylot changed rules in last couple of months when i didnt show up here. I hope they dont. But if i am not on same wavelength as the author of discussion then i would expect him/her to tell me i asked something else and u debated something else ( ofcourse in mail) and if i find it correct then i wont have problem saying sorry to it. I dont think many person would deliberately be vague but may be 1 percent or less.

I know exactly what you mean, I often receive those kinds of responses, I most likely ignore it or I will say soemthing back sometimes. For example, I said I di ABC, so CDE happened. Some people can respond me and say maybe you can try to do ABC, CDE might not be happened... you know what I mean? So I would say something back liek I stated I did ABC so CDE occuied, sometimes it is just aggravating to see responses like that, what the crap. Sometimes I receive responses like I ask if you are saving money in this kind of economy these days, people can just say "Yes, I am saving money in this kind of economy." So what is the meaning of the discussion? What did he say about on this issue?...

I am new here, but I agree with you 100% I respond to things I know or can relate too, if I read something that I don't understand I just move on to the next topic, so easy to do, but thank you,have a great day.

i know what you feel. i observe also that some members repond after reading the header. no longer interested what the body of the discussion was really all about. i am very careful also regarding responding. when i log on on my email and see what my friends started discussion and when i see that i dont understand what it was all about then i dont respond anymore. i dont want to make a total fool of myself. maybe the buffon you are reffering at is after the points and the earning. just my views.

I have seen this myself,I use to think it was because they just read the title of the question .But now realize they are just blurting things out to gain cents ! If the would only use some common sense ,when posting it would be great.Its disappointing to have responses such as that.

I do not understand why you are getting so upset over some useless answers. If you do not like those answers, just ignore them. There is no need to insult somebody by saying that do not respond to my discussions again. Please remember this is a free forum and everybody, including a buffoon have the right to send some rubbish. I will never do this. I have also received some responses, which I am not able understand, I just ignore these kind of responses. One important thing you have to remember is not all the people in this forum are good in English, and they are making a honest attempt to understand the language and improve it.

I think the problem is, is that many people just read the title of the discussion and MAYBE the first sentence so they don't get the whole meaning of what the discussion is all about One time for fun...I wanted to test this theory out. I started a discussion called "Help! I Think I'm Pregnant With An Alien"---The first few sentences I described all the strange things that were happening to my body, like my having glowing eyes and bizzare sounds from my stomach and my hair turning purple...then skip a lot of space and did a gotcha type thing Here's that famous discussion http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1803087.aspx Well sure enough...someone responded as if I had meant it --unfortunately his remark was deleted

(laughing at the Lamb's response)... Yeah I get em. Unless it's spam, I just don't reply. Once in a while I misunderstand and make a dumb reply, but I at least read them first.

but everybody has his or her own capacity to answer things as posted here,dont we? some response maybe dull or not connected with the subject,or just wanted to add a smile between the words.are we to prevent them from responding?

Hi jellymonty, I think it's just down to reading the title and nothing beyond that, maybe they've decided to gravitate from the one liners but are still in one liner mode and a word perhaps from the title appeals to them. Also looking at least at the odd other response would be helpful so one doesn't receive the same response ten times in a row.

well, I noticed that too with some other users. even though they would type three to four lines of responses in a discussion and still it doesn't make any sense. well, monty, i don't think am that innocent too.I try to say something constructive, and read all and between the lines. but of course, if it's completely off topic to me, i won't pursue responding to it. Have a great day, i hope I make sense.

Luckily I have not so far received responses of such kind to my discussions. I think they do not see the tags added which gives an idea of what the topic is about and helps them to respond accordingly.