Explain Please! Start a Discussion.....Responses Sit Without Answers??

Oh I agree Hatley! It seems that we can't do ANYTHING right for some of 'em either. Yesterday another one told me to get out of his boxes and not to comment because he is talking with someone else I thought discussions were available dor anyone to respond and comment but this one thinks different

Hey Witttttttttt! Happy new year! Just as long as you are not jealous that I am with all the others too!

diana someone nagging at me when I am doing my best does not fill me with joy,joy,joy. I do think most of us are doing our best so why keep up this barrage of how awful we are? better to use your time doing your own commenting and posting instead of worrying about how often others comment. oh I did not mean you yourself when I made that statement. but all these discussions about why no comments gets to me at times as I do my best but I cannot be here 24 hours a day.

I'm glad you understand exactly where I am coming from (in regards to the Forum) If we could just answer all the misconceptions, people would be more informed and others less annoyed if the discussions just ran a bit more smoothly. I know I would. As you commented to Reeyan up there.. I feel that pain.. at those missed opportunities of others..:-) And I think it is (mostly) all due to those misconceptions and/or others with them passing on erroneous information. Well, maybe Reeyan is correct and we should just try and ignore that which does not effect us.. even if it does give us a twinge or two. I've yet to talk to Alice.. but maybe the Forum thing should be brought up.:-)

Thanks for the follow up.. well that's all we can do is put the word out there, and see what happens. :-)

...Hi minx, I wanted you to know before I forgot, I did ask Alice about starting a forum. I don't know if you did the same, but I did not get any response back from her at the point of the response. So we will see if there is any follow up on it or if it will get lost, as there were so many topics that people wanted to discuss with her. Anyway, there was a question about it. Take care.

That is a response of understanding.I like you r attitude and spirit.Let us be be happy with the people of good taste.

..Hi balasri, Happy 2010. Thanks for your response. You are very much on point in your assessment. There are those of course who are trying hard to keep up as they have pointed out to me in so many classy words "o), with their discussions. But that is not really what I was getting at. I thought that maybe we got credit in some way for just having people respond and not comment back. I wanted to make sure that I was not missing something important here. So I found my answer. I really have no interest in trying to be a truant officer of sort, that's not ny business, that would be stupid as far as I am concerned. So off we go to see the Wizard. TIE (take it easy). May 2010 be good to you and yours.

...Hi there Opal26, That's my birthstone, :o). Well thea already chewed me up and down about Hatley, so I take it all in stride. She was a little bit off color, regardless of her profile. I don't, if you will forgive me, think I made a mistake with her, I may have answered her as she answered me, stridently. But I don't know who had the responses sitting unanswered, I don't care, I was not picking on them per se, I was making the point as I asked, "what is the reason", because I really thought wrongly that maybe we received some credit for just accumulating respones and not answering them. I now know for sure that you don't receive any credit. It was not a personal thing. You say you don't care how she came off, my dear if someone hit you in the head, because they thought you did something you did not do, would you apologize to them to them for thinking you were the culprit and bashing you in the head. No answer needed. If you go and read my second response to Hatley, we stand adjourned. May 2010 bring good things to you and your family.

I think we get credit in responding all of those this things because they are also an activity here. Where activity is one of the option for us to earn some my friend...Wish you all the luck this 2010

...Hi there aerous, Happy 2010 to you and to your family. I have to keep letting those know who respond to this discussion, that I was seeking an answer as to what the benefit was to starting a discussion, getting many responses and not responding in kind. I was not interested in whether each person responded, but more to the point, do you get any credit for doing such a thing. The answer is no we don't. So now I am positive about what is going on for myself only. Thank you so much for responding, and for letting me know that your discussion are important to you and that you tend to them, which is great. But as I said, I was not trying to be a truant officer or such. :o) Looking for information to verify and now I know. TIE (take it easy)

OK the pm business, I find it distracting from the main attention here as we don't get paid for them so prefer them kept to a few close friends. If someone requested you do something for them and they didn't acknowledge it then why not ask on the board if they did in fact receive your pm and take it from there. I think how people deal with their own friends on here is their business not mine. Obviously you don't know Hatley above, she is a dear mylotter, look at her profile, and I got upset when I posted this discussions and she gave me a similar telling off, despite everyone assuring her that we are never referring to her, she does take it personally. There I would suggest a quick look at her profile and then an apology to her for your harsh words. She's definitely one of the best and most loyal mylotters here and well respected. Re the no responses I just don't have time for it but am constantly amazed by the numbers who do respond knowing they will never get a response. For myself I don't like talking to brick walls and you don't make friends here like that.

Typos everywhere there. I meant not responding is bad manners.

..Hi thea, You are I think one of the reasonable,intelligentpeople on his site No kissy, kissy, here, when we diagree on somethng we usually are agreeable in our diagrement. My point exactly, what is the sense in making a response except to get the credit if that's all you are loking for, if no one is paying any attention towhat youare saying. I was just verbally chewed out bysomeone who took this entire question personally to the point of verally abusing me in their response. I did ask them, in a bit of rash judgment to calm down, a little more colorful than that but we hope acceptable to mylot rules. Forgive the spacing computer isnot cooperating. Please answer me this, although I think I know what you are going to say. I you were contacted by someone posing as a friend here :o), who wanted a recipe, you took the time, long time to type it up, send it, gkot no response of receipt. Wrote them, asked if they received it, got no response. Would you delete them as a "friend". Thanks Shouldn't ask you, should remembeer your suffering fools comment. Take care. Take all mistakes for love as they say, don't want to type over, but this computer is a mess right ow, will do better next time. :o)

...Hi tlb0822, Happy 2010. Thank you for your response. I just wanted to check out the thoughts on this, just for curosity's sake. From the discussion, I learned that some people have upwards of 50 to 100 respones to comment on. That is quite a lot to deal with, so to get behind is certainly a possibility. But in truth it is not ny business how they run their business. Like I said, I wanted to hear the reasons as I understand you don't get credit unless you are posting for yourself and I thought maybe I missed something. I guess not. :o) Take care.

..Hi there Hatley.....Whooooaaa, First of all it was not to make a negative comment, I understand that people have lives and other things to do, well and good but I am interested in what the valid reason would be to let discussions sit without responding. Fine you gave your answer, but pleasse don't take something personally, when I have no clue basically because I don't even remember who it was and don't care. It was not one person either. One other thing, please don't use profanity in your comment to me, I don't appreciate it and you need to thicken up that skin, my dear. That's fantastic that you are behind trying to catch up with all your discussion respones, that should make you happy to inform silly old me, who you feel is doing else to do but working the mylot discussions. Calm the freak down why don't you? Keep you blood pressure under control as well. Why such anomosity?? You are earning. TIE You not answering to me, I posed the question for discussion purposes. Interesting answer. I'll take my foot off your toes.

....Hatley, My tone in my comment to your response could have been a little less strident. Take care. :o(

...Hi there May2k8, Happy 2010. Thanks for your response. I do try and I don't receive fifty and a hundred responses as someone else mentioned in a very rude way, that they have other things to do besides answering discussions. They actually took personal offense, as if I was directing it at them and their work here on mylot, and I should mind my business. My goodness, the response was very, very hostile and amazing. I am sorry to put this in your response but you ask a question, and some people come out crusing and upset because they think it is aimed at them. The most interesting bit of verbal thugery I have read in a long, long time. Take care. May 2010 be good to you.

...Hi there bluangel62, Happy 2010. Thank you for your response. Well I think your answer makes very good sense, as I am learning some people have 50 to 100 responses that they need to respond to sometimes and I guess the time is not there or as you say, there are too many to comment on and so they move on to the next discussion. May 2010 be good to you and your family.

...Hi therev xJaiiDK, Happy 2010. That is totally correct, no doubt about it. It is everyone's choice and nobody else's business, as you might be inferring. But if one was trying to get to New York for instance, and one was driving in the complete opposite direction, using their gas, but going nowhere near their destination, surely someone with a logical mind would appreciate, being told, turn around, it's the other way. Their stuff is being done, but with lot of empty air. Take care. Enjoy the New Year.

...Hi px_yeap, Happy 2010. You make a point, that until just this moment I had not thought about. You do find yourself repeating the same response over and over again sometimes. Or trying to say the same thing in a different way. Also if you get a lot of responses, it can perhaps be overwhelming in a way. So two very good points. Thanks for your response. May 2010 be very good to you and your family.