Does this just p$ss you off, or is it just me?

I think there was this one time when I logged on, and there were no friends making discussions. Most were just commenting and etc and I couldn't find anything that made me interested, so that made me bored.

Hello, Malamar. The only solution I can think of is to build up your friends list so it includes quality contributors. If you have Thea, Fjaril, Lamb, Mysdianait and Aliceinwebland on your friends list, you've got some good friends who post quality discussions and look out for more of the same.

Hi Malamar, you can't have it both ways you know, it's either lots of dribbling drivel or nothing. Seriously the way to deal with off topic drivel is this

It doesn't necessarily make me mad, but sometimes it does frustrate me, especially when I have put a lot of thought and effort into a discussion to try to make it a good, interesting discussion. The off-topic responses do not usually bother me, especially if they are from friends of mine. In fact, I expect to have at least a few of those from certain people. When I do not get many responses, on the other hand, it does sometimes bother me, especially when I see some one-line "discussions" getting pages of comments. It is just "one of those things" though, and I just move on and keep responding all over the boards.

Actually, although it may sound weird, I sometimes anticipate the one-sentence or off-topic response and I want to comment back on it. I comment because the sentence usually has no ideas in it - there is nothing in it, so that lets me just write on and on without worrying about the person who responded. I have had this happen a few times, and that's when I just go and rant about my discussion again. I think, though, that the uninteresting responses just make it harder to comment on - that annoys me. Like the other people said, the solution would be to either ignore it or report it so the response will get deleted. When these people realize that their posts are getting deleted, they will either quit myLot or they will learn to post something of quality.

A bit, but if someone post one sentence answers to your post you can find some solace in knowing that they won't get paid for their un-imaginative (spelling? hmmm) and borig off topic answers :-) And as posters posting boring and of-topic answers are more likely to be here just for the money and not for the fun, that'll probably hurt. Gosh, I feel so nice and sweet ...

Well, we can't really do anything about it. Were a diversity of people here in myLot. So, some people are just like that. Just be thankful that we have responses in our discussions.

I've learnt that you need to go with the flow because there is no rhyme or reason when it comes to responses. You can have the most amazingly interesting discussion but those who turn up to respond are just there for a quickie, a few words which add nothing and then they are off to their next one or don't get the point and go on about something completely different. It could make you pull your hair out at times. The best thing you can do is to firstly accept that there is nothing you can do about those one sentence responses or those which make no sense. As for no responses, well there is something you can do about them and that is just to get out there and get yourself known, doing a bit of old fashioned network marketing. I probably spend 80% of my time on here responding to discussions from members I've never come across before and hopefully those will return to respond on my. I trawl through profiles discovering active members and responding to their discussions where they interest me.

The sad part is that there is no solution. . You just have to deal with it. It's frustrating, I know it, when you're super excited to start a post and excited to get all of these great responses and really start a good, thought-provoking discussion..and then, either NO one responds to it, or people who have irrelevant, spamming, or incoherent answers respond. It just doesn't seem fair! All you can really do is hope that your discussion will be discovered by people who want to put a little more effort forth to create a more thoughtful response..

I don't mind people going off on a tangent as I must admit I sometimes do when responding to a discussion I might say yeah I agree with your post because blah blah blah but I also think x y and z lol, I think a discussion evolves initially it will be very closely related to the topic but as more people post the response may start to go off on a tangent but that in my opinion is quite healthy as its a discussion though really annoys me the one liners or people responding and adding no real meat into the discussion.

Well, malamar, looks like you picked the right topic this time. I just read all the responses. got into some real interesting fun conversations and comments. There are some real neat characters that participate in this. I'm happy to be getting to know all of you. See you on the flip side.

Yes, I do get that kind of replies to the discussions I start. I think like 50% of the replies are completely off topic or short. I guess there is nothing I can really do about that. I just keep on thinking of new discussions that will get the more interesting responses for me.

Don't you feel more pleased when you find a post of real quality in the midst of this cases you descibed? I am also irritated when I see answers of the kind "Yes" and "No" (with the exeption of the "no" thelamb gave you) but when I see several posts of this kind and then I see a nice response that can make me think I am even more glad, because it is unexpected. I am more annoyed when there are only few responses to my discussions, because.... well that happens a lot Have a nice day and take it easy

Hi malamar. The only solution I can think of is just ignore them. I wonder if after a while myLot catches on and lowers the rank of a person if their answer is too short. The ones I don't like are the ones you can't figure out what they are saying.

hi it is just something that make you feel bored. so take a break and then you will get more new in your mind. just right now, i feel so bored and seem like every discussions are not interest in me at all... so I will have to do something else beside come for a moment