Responding to a discussion after a few months...

A while ago I found some that I missed ages after I awarded a BR and I felt bad but could not do a great deal about it except make a comment and apologise. These things happen and we get busy and it is so easy to fall behind. I’m pretty sure that most people here don’t mind at all because, after all we are all in the same boat!

I always get back and comment to any response that my discussions receive even if many months have passed since they were posted. Indeed I have one discussion with quite a few responses that need attention and I will get there too eventually. I feel that late is better than never and I'm sure the users who responded will think so too. Sometimes commenting on older responses can even revive an old discussion and cause it to receive some new responses too

I don't find anything wrong in responding to the discussions you feel like as long as they are alive and kicking here.They are very much here for to be responded .Is it not so? We don't have to curb our wish to respond to a discussion because it has become old.We might have failed to notice that particular discussion due to various reasons.But that is not the reason to ignore and skip a beautiful discussion.

Hi corry, It is not at all a big deal. I have commented some of my discussions after three years; you may wonder and may think that I am rude but not at all. I joined here before two years but that discussion is showing three years old and that time I didn't aware the importance of commenting back. Recently one of my friend responded to all of my old discussions then only I realized I have left some of discussions unresolved and without commented. So I resolved two of my discussions and commented them too. The same thing happened with me, didn't get any notification, because of the above said friend I find some of the responses were not read by me. So I did that job too when I seen it.

I discovered by accident that email notifications are not sent for all comments and you have to go to the started tab under discussions to check the latest activity on discussions and then you have to scroll through them because it only shows the most recent activity so if more than one user posts something you won't know.

Hi corrycrystal! I don't have my notifications turned on for mylot so I don't know what's happening in mylot on my emails but I am not worrying that much since I am here everyday anyway. I don't see any wrong if you respond back to people who respond to your discussion/s. Its better late, than never You have your own reasons and why it happened. But always make sure that you can comment back on it though it takes a weeks/months already.Its your responsibility. I just did in my case.

it doesnt matter to me. sometimes i will respond to one that is of interest to me that is old (i have even responded to one that was a year old!)

if i have extra time i see to it that i get to repsond back to comments eve from long long time ago. it's my one way of saying that i really appreciate their giving time to comment to my posts.it's alos nice to read other comments. it's always a personal decision.

It is really hard to go back several months for me. I start at least 2 discussions almost every day, so I would be spending a lot of time looking back if I were to go back in time to see if any new responses have come in on any old discussions. If people do make comments on things they usually come back to the top of my started list and I can quickly check to see if there is anything new then, I can check it and respond. I try to respond to every answer but some times it is just too over whelming.

Well it's always a personnel decision, but I do. Again people are taking the time to respond, not only that but going back in time! No matter their motive, weather they like you and are researching you, or trollimg for cash! You get paid for what ever you write as long as it's a good quality comment!tdemex

I also experience the same things as think that i already commented those who reply on my discussion only to realize later when i scan the pages that their are other awaiting to be reply on. Thus, i could not yet gives the mark best response until I finish replying. As a respondent to other discussion it would feel great if the starter of the discussion makes a reply it could make me go back to comments again on her discussion. It also alright for me if ever she forget to reply on my comments as i know that every member earn from their activities and it so happen that the starter of the discussion never comments back it is her lost and not mine as i already reply, then it's up to the poster if she comments back.

I try to respond as soon as possible but if it was a week or even a month has gone by I would still take the time to respond.

For me, I prefer to post responses to the latest duscussions, but if there are some friends who respond my discussions after a few months, I won't regard it as a big problem. If I have some spare time, I will go back to respond the responses to my discussions, even if those discussions have been posted for several weeks. But in fact, I am so busy with my work and it is next to impossible for me to anser such responses. If I receive such notifications that tell me that there are some people who have responded my old discussions, then I tend to ignore it. You see, both the "old" discussions and "latest" discussions are equal in the community of myLot.

I think its pretty much okay as long as you've responded, no matter how late it is. As the saying goes, better late than never. :)