do you ever feel people dont read your whole post?

I can understand why people don't have long responses sometimes because I'm the same. It happens. It does annoy me when people don't read my whole post because then they answer irrelevantly or they try to pick an argument when I completely agree about what the person is saying and have already stated that in my post. It's always interesting when someone responds with a long opinion and I quite like it as well. The one liners sometimes make me go..."Hmm, okay". Well, at least they responded, I guess.

Yes it happens quite often, because they can not be asked to read, I have had People telling my Discussions are long, well fine do not read them and do not respond just to earn money because that is what they do Do not let it dishearten you just keep writing Good Luck

yes, it happens quite a lot actually. I wrote a discussion about a woman who caused a drunk driving accident in which she along with several children were killed. Her husband has hired a private investigator and is publicly arguing the fact that she was drunk and high at the time of the accident. I was looking for other's thoughts on this. I did get them but I also got many opinions on drinking and driving and that was not the question. It has happened on other discussions also but that one stands out as it is most recent.

If the wrong question is answered from one of my discussions, I have to wonder if my discussion was read or just browsed through. I appreciate every response and comment. I don't want anyone to feel they have wasted their time. We should all take care in our participation here. It will benefit all that way.

Yes, everytime when I have started a new discussion, then I often receive many responses to my discussion. But it is common that there are some friends here misunderstand my topics and it is obvious that they post their answers before reading the whole post. Different people may be out of different purposes when they response to my discussion. For example, some people just want to make more money through posting more responses. Or there are some people who are busy with their work and have no enough time to read the whole post. If you meet such kind of responses again, don't worry about that and just ingore it.

Sometimes I really want to say more about the questions that I haved been ready to response but I have so limited english vocabulary. You know I am come from China!

Dear friend, In my discussion I had put few discussion that have lot to read and got only very less responds. I hope if the content is boring people may not like to read further. They may either skip in between just to know the matter in short. This may also project in the respond they put too. I hope a good interesting content will be read by the people more carefully.

dracoserpintenes hi yes I have found that occasionally people will get lazy and just answer what they think my discussion is about. usually I can tell and I will leave a gentle comment saying I noticed you did not read all my discussion, the title really did not have much to do with my discussion. The person had thought I was talking about ghosts when all I was talking about was the noise a house makes settling at night and how if you are alone it seems almost scary. The title was just to get people to reAd the discussion.the title was something like, Ghosts and goblins and things that go bump in the night. The discussion never even mentioned ghosts at all, but just an old house settling in the quiet night.

Trust me. You really do not want to know my life story. I could be in a soap opera. Anway...yes I do feel like sometimes my whole post is not being read. . I myself have been guilty of missing something that has been said by someone. All you have to do is nudge me and say "Hey! you missed this"

Welllike I have said on numerous occassions ,there are many different kinds of people here on mylot .There are those like you who are here forbecause of their interest in discussions and interacting with other and then there are those who are here to make a quick buck .Usually the ones who make short responses and dont read your discussions are the ones who are here to make a quick buck. I must admit that I hace a good cadre of friend who read and respond to my discussions in its entirety but then there are the occasional new respondent who might not ne that thorough.I am happy to have all of them though and I have found taht sometimes the best responses are the short ones so Iowuld urge you not to feel bad when you get short responses but instead cherish teh time that that person took and the effort ,even if it wa ssamll. Hope I am making you happy with length and quality here .Good discussion

Hi, I seldom make new discussions, I always read others' discussion, I made about four or five discussions, but every time I made a new discussions, I just had two or three responds, and I feel sad about this, so I don't like to make new discussion, and just like to read others' discussion, if someone respond a long discussion, and share her/his stories, I really happy about this, it seems like he has interested with your discussion.

Yes, and it really annoys me. It's usually obvious within the first sentence whether someone has read all of the topic or just the title. In fact, one sentence is often all you get. In a recent discussion of mine, I asked why some people used a particular expression in their posts. At the end, I said I wasn't criticising anyone for using it, I just wanted to understand why they felt it was appropriate. One responder said why didn't I concentrate on answering discussions instead of criticising others, so she obviously hadn't read the whole post. I always read through, because very often the discussion has little to do with the title. The title may just be an attention grabber or a lead-in to the real topic, so if you don't read through, you could make a real fool of yourself, as well as losing the opportunity to take part in a great discussion. Unfortunately, some members are under the mistaken impression that quantity earns for them. On Mylot, quality wins out over quantity every time.

I think people if have or know the question, they will reply. When I reply others discussions, I read the whole post.

This seems to happen all over the internet, isn't it? In forums and blogs too. Maybe we're more in a visual age and too many letters can scare people, so we pass from normal reading to a "diagonal reading". In my case, it doesn't really bother me, as the person reading it might not have enough time to read everything, or just might only want to focus in a part of it, the one that catched more that person's attention. I think first is better to think of the reasons, and see if it's a reason to feel bothered or not. The best thing to do in my opinion: tell people how you feel. You want to read people's life stories, so ask them to tell you. If it doesn't work, try again! :)

Maybe I'm one of those that have a very short attention span. I really prefer that discussion be limited to a few sentences since the longer or more number of paragraphs are in a discussion the more i tend to lose focus on the points raised and in my haste to earn more LOL i tend to say the wrong words which i totally apologize for. But i don't take it against someone who responded way out of the topic that I started because I could be at fault too for not being clear on what i want in the first place, i also take into consideration that we live in different time zones and have our cultural differences that we each have our own opinions. To me, a response is still a response and it is very much appreciated. Cheers!

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I am a new user. It is the second time for me to reply, i want to communicate with all the people that we have the same topic, so i will read for each sentence and reply. Maybe, sometimes, some people only want to reply you some questions that they want to say. Nice to meet you.