Will you read the comment from others before you started posting yours?

Hi sasa! Great avatar! Yes I read all the responses and I even read them on discussions where I do not always respond. There are so many interesting things to learn by reading the responses here. I get to know the users better as well as seeing different opinions about similiar topics too. I never respond through notifiers as I go to the discussion, open it up and read other responses just to make sure that what I intend saying has not already been posted by another user. If it has then I usually comment on it without leaving my own response.

Hi sasalove, According to mylot guidelines, reading other’s response before posting our own is come under the 'don'ts'. Usually I don’t read it because if I read other posts then I may lose my interest to write my own. Earlier I started a discussion on same topic and that time one of the senior members told me that it is against the guidelines. But many people are doing the same and I don’t think that mylot admin can have any method to find it out. I don’t think that it is a mistake too, if you can’t understand the topic or explanation you will get a chance to understand the same by reading other’s posts. So please go ahead.

I am not consistent in doing this. Sometimes, i read others comments first before doing mine but most of the time, after reading the topic/discussion i go straight to responding on to it. I don't want to be swayed by others views.

Hi sasalove :D I always read other comments & response which i find more attractive.I don't read more than 2-3 lines of any response or comments,if its more interesting then only i read full response ^_^ As you said by reading others response may help to understand the topic better. Many people finds its waste of time but they are not knowing what they are missing ;) Happy mylotting ^_^

I scarcely read others' comments. The topic I take in discuss usually is the one I am very interesting in, I can respond quickly. On the contrary, I prefer reading the body of the discussion by author carefully, and I think it's polite to comment sincerely and concretely instead of responding randomly and vaguely. Do you agree with me?^-

It totally depends on the subject. As you said, if it is just not comprehendable, then i will read other posts by other users to get what it means. But if it is easily understandable like this one, then i just post my thoughts :)

I try to unless the person had made me really incensed, or I just don't have a lot of time. I would say I at least read some of the comments before responding to about 80% of the discussion. The other 20 fall into the two categories I outlined at the beginning of this posting.

Yes, I make it a point to read the comments made by other users before I post my response. Unless of course the responses are so many and there are many repetitive responses. It will be good to get an idea of what is going on before I respond. I might find myself just repeating what others have already said. cheers!

sasalove hi hatley here no not always, I like to make my own thoughts into a response, not just repeat someone else's thinking as I may have a bit different idea. I want to ' make my response spontaneous, if I read ten responses that all say practically the same thing I have just wasted my time. I do like to think for myself. I can decide what the discussion is about most of the time. I do not want someone else deciphering things for me. I like to do that for myself.

Yes, but I don't read all the replies. To do like that, I can know more very different thinkings, and may be there are some nice and valuable proposals, and, there, I may find someone who has the similar attitude, life style, etc. In brief, read the comment from ohters is worthwhile and interesting.

Hello Sasa. I do read some of the other comments...all of them if the discussion isn't huge and full of many many responses! I love to see what others have said on the given topics. It's one of the things I enjoy most about mylot...how much I've learned from the nice people here. Karen

yeah i do read the discussions first before i post my comments because some discussions are not objective, and i have to read what she/he meant to what he/she had discussed so that i won't be out of the topic.

Yes I also read comments before I start posting mine. If it is not too much clear, what the issuer wants to know, they all give some ideas. Otherwise if the post is clear to me then I start straightway. Because there is no harm to response fast.

Sometimes, but if there's too many response on a certain discussion and others reply is too long I am not reading it. But if the topic is really interesting for me, even if the reply is too long, I will read it.

sometimes I do sometimes I dont...it depends on the topic really...if its just a basic topic or one of hte more fun ones then I usually dont read other comments until after I've posted mine....if its a more serious topic then SOMETIMES i will read the other comments or some of them before posting my reply...

Yes I read first the comment of others before I post because I might post the same idea or what I'm thinking is different from the topic.

Hi sasalove. I have a very limited time to do mylotting especially when i am in the office. You workers in any office that office work should be the priority. That's why i mostly go online to mylot and respond to me friends' first. When i resepond to theirs, i respond through email notifications so i can't go to the previous responses and make my response then and there. But if i get some more extra time to give my response to other members who are not in my list, i read the responses already there first. Sometimes, discussions are such a hit so there are too many responses already there to read and will consume a lot of time, i usually read at least the first page responses... Neil

yeah, I read and scan some comments and then proceed to reply on my own thoughts as I do not really like to read fully or else it may affect my reply. Thus, i also avoid imitating the ideas of others and I like to write what i am thinking right now to avoid duplicating the same comments from other members.

I just read the discussion posted by the Poster and then reply to their question. I don't really read the comments left by other people. I wonder if it would taint my answer if I did. I just like to reply to a discussion where I can give a clear and concise answer to the question.

hi sasalove, i see most time, one situation is that i could not understand what does the discussion mean, i could not understand it, so i could not answer it. so i would view some responces. annother reason is that i will learn some grammer or phrases if i watch more responce for english is not my native language. but when i have so much to say about one discussion, i would respond directly.