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hi twoey When people respond to any of my discussions with something completely unrelated to my topic, I will gently ask if they read the discussion as your response doesn't show that. I think at times we use a title that throws people off just to get people interested but they respond to the title not our discussions. I have got a little off the subject myself at times but still in my response I show why i included the off subject along with my response to the discussion. I would never ask my lot to delete it though, that's just mean, as perhaps the person is trying to respond to several at once, and got confused with the topics and posted the wrong response to the wrong discussion. with firefox mozilla you can have a number of tabs open at the same time. In other words you could be responding to several at one time.

I've really been noticing that a lot lately too and I don't know if it's a language barrier, just not paying attention or if it's people just hammering out whatever to get their pennies. A while ago I started a discussion about people excessively talking about their personal lives and I used the term 'dirty laundry' in the title. Somehow I wasn't surprised when I received more than one response yammering on about literal dirty laundry. People will also just read the title of a discussion and not the body which really bugs me. If it's ridiculous enough then I'll report it but for the most part I just leave a comment saying 'this has nothing to do with the discussion' or I'll ignore it altogether.

Well, I am pretty new here and have been fortunate enough, not to have encountered any such thing yet. But if I ever came across one, I would first go through the site's policy about this issue and would act according to that... I wonder, who would be doing this? Deviating a little from the original topic is quite okay, but to change it completely is not good... Happy myLotting!

I just ignore those and move on. Don't think it is worth reporting to admins as it really is not inappropriate, just dumb. Some people just don't pay attention and some just try to get that penny. Don't fret about it, just ignore them as they don't warrant your attention.

I have seen it...I tend to ignore it. I dont know why someone would do it on purpose....however i have had it happen (and noticed it) that a post or a photo i posted while having multiple tabs of mylot open in firefox has posted to a totally different discussion than the one i was trying to answer.

I think that if it is something completely off the subject and you want to bring up something completely different start a new discussion. If its something that you want to respond to respond to, at least stick around the basics of the topic.

I've noticed that happening occasionally. I'll normally ask the person what the relevance is, sometimes they're respond, telling me how it's relevant and sometimes they'll ignore me completely. I tend to rate them with a negative rating though.

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I usually put a few ????s and a duh!...say what??? and then move on. I may give a (-) rating but never report anything like that.

Hi twoey. I hate to say it, but I usually just ignore it and move on...unless of course the response was downright rude and uncalled for. Then I might just say something to them and/or to admin. As for the reasons behind it, it's probably just to earn a quick penny or 2. Happy mylotting!

I responded to one discussion lately and someone budge in and wrote something that has totally has no connection to the subject. Either she didn't understand the subject or wrongly put her response in my space. I didn't say anything and neither did the original poster replied her. No I didn't make a report to admin.

There is one person on here who responds with something relevant to the topic, but doesn't even come close to addressing the question that is being asked. I just ignore her. But in general, if it's somebody I don't know or if it's somebody I do know and they're just off topic, I generally just say that I don't think they quite got the point and that the point is "this"...

Hi dear. I have seen this happen to friends, to other people and of course to myself. One guy started 2 topics in my "personal" interest topic called elitess, like my user name, and he was talking about the elite society I have received answers from people that only read the title and maybe first line in my topic, and were off topic, but i just moved on, i guess there are some people so desperate about money that they would do anything for a few cents... hence trolling I, for one, prefer not answering at the moment even if i read the topic, if nothing intelligent comes to mind, and come back another time. Best wishes, Alex.

I am not sure why peolpe do this. when I anser a post I stay close to the topic as much as possible. if some does not responed in the right way on a topic I have stated. I simply ingore at and move on. Howver I do not thing I have had this problem.

Spammers? That's my first assumption. It's quite possible, however unlikely, that there's just some disturbed folk spouting there honest to goodness opinion in a fashion that makes perfect sense to them but not the rest of us--I like acorns. But it's really hard to say why people would arbitrarily insert statements that have nothing to do with the topic at hand. Oh, look a choo-choo! Personally, I wouldn't worry about it so much. Probably just folks who are A)spamming and will eventually be caught or B) those whose English is rather poor who may very well be caught for spamming as well. I told him only when the moon was out should he take the north road. If it gives you some satisfaction, go ahead and report them, I suppose, if it's really an issue, but keep in mind mylot staff probably has to deal with hundreds or thousands of issues/complaints/concerns/violations per day. Bark! Is my face on correctly? Again, I just wouldn't worry about those random, irrelevant sentences, myself, unless you catch an individual or group going out of their way to spam--but that's just me. Why a spoon?

I have seen that before too, and it can be rather puzzling at times. I usually laugh to myself. My opinion is that perhaps the person responding to a query may be in another frame of mind. Or the discussion may have triggered another thought which may not be apparent to the reader(s). Since most logical answers stem from some kind of experience or exposures in life, As a benefit of doubt, another suggestion here could be good to just ask the responder to "elaborate" his or her answers, who knows, it may lead to another treasure of information. Just a thought. What you think?

I haven't seen this happen firsthand, but I'm not surprised that it does happen. Thankfully, I've never had to deal with this on any of my discussions. All I could think of first off when I read your discussion is that because of people doing this, MyLot is going to make more rules and more restrictions that will make it less fun for people all because individuals are deciding to respond with things that have nothing to do with the discussion. It also isn't fair to the person who posted the discussion. Obviously, the topic they post is of interest to them, and to get some off-the-wall response would be a waste of their time because it has absolutely nothing to do with what they posted. I don't think it's right. Perhaps MyLot admin will be looking for these kinds of responses now. I don't know how they would monitor something like this, but it's not fair for anyone but the responder to have repercussions, in my opinion, because they are the ones wasting their time and everyone else's. That's just it - MyLot was set up to be used a certain way, but someone comes along to ruin it for everyone else. That's the way things go, unfortunately. "Such is life!" Thanks for posting and making us more aware of what's going on. Best wishes!

It might be because they just want to make quick replies to get their penny and don't actually read the discussions but just pick some at random. Or perhaps they had two windows open and confused the train one with the Easter one?

I am a bit late responding but here goes; I think it depends whether it appears the person has misunderstood what the discussion is about or whether the person is being an idiot, a troll or both; you can usually tell, a while ago I came across a troll that would go around putting completely irrelevant answers on discussions and of course he was duly reported and I haven’t seen him around since. If the responder has just not understood the topic I feel inclined to politely set them straight.

Maybe, they are not reading the whole article. They just skim it and then start on a subject that they already wanted to talk about. Or, maybe they don't know how to go about starting their own subject. I think they should not get any point or money for not answering the subject right. *Peace and Love get's you through everything in Life*