How do you react with responses that are nice but out of the topic?

Hi aaronfyzeon, I am open to advices, even if they give them when i am not particularly asking about them, i just give my thanks for the time they had taken to respond to my discussion. And some of the responses are nice but it happens that they had not read my discussion fully, it happens at times but i am not bothered too much, if only they had read the discussion completely. And as for the non-sense responses which i rarely do get, i do tell them i didn't get them or probably they didn't my discussion correctly. I don't think they would mark it negative though.

People won't give you a negative mark if you don't answer their response. I, myself, only reply to responses which I think needs my answers. Every discussion have to end somewhere. I've read a lot of started discussions that would continue for a while but it does always end somewhere. If you think you've said enough, that is your decision. If you feel you have to say some more, go ahead as long as you follow the guidelines of mylot.

i will just say thanks for your response....atleast they give some of their time to response or tell what inside their minds about the topic..unlike others who dont even bother to reply to those who gave comments to his/her post.

In my opinion ,A discussion is not meant to go on straight lines and strictly adhering to topic alone.We have had discussions here which started off with one topic and then went on to cover other related topics and then some more related topics and when a person reading it at the 3rd or 4th page would think something else is being discussed...So what is important is the flow of words and ideas and not sticking to one particular line of thought...It hardly matters whether I am going to be ranked negative or positive because I will come out with my views no matter what...

I have decided in my discussions, just to ignore any posters that respond in either a way that does not make sense or is not on topic. I know they are just responding to anything to try to up their money earned, but I do not like the way they do it. Sometimes I am really looking for help and the more that people discuss it, the more help I have found in a harmless way.

I have never given anyone a negative mark even though I don't agree with them, I think mylot is about sharing information. You can either take it for what it's worth and move on. Don't worry.

Those are the ones I just ignore.. It's best to just move on. I have some people who have commented on a discussion - but read only the headline question.. Which actually was not what the topic was about. So when they commented it made no sense. I just ignore them. Or say thanks but next time could you bother to read my DISCUSSION.. as this had nothing to do with what I was asking. :-)

Hi, Sometimes, people may not get the right meaning on the discussion that we set up and their respond may be out of the point. Or some people may just give a veery short remarks on the discussion that we have started,no matter what, I will always "thank you" to the person for sparing his/her time to give a response. For me, I always read the topic of discussions carefully before writing my responses as I don't wwant to waste my time on writing something that I don't understand about. Have a great day!!

Well, I just ignore them. We can't criticize people for posting such comments however you can report them if you think they spam your discussion. But dont you like it? every reply is a credit^^^ hehehe

Hi dear, As you said, for certain occasion it happens. Some times the commenter may not get the topic properly or may misunderstand the over all topic well. In such cases, the comments or responses may be vague or in appropriate. However, it will not affect too much because we are not totally depend on their comments. Even for me, I think I have gone out of the way at times. But, if we think, we will get a general meaning on such occasions. I think the discussion topic is well understood, the confusion can be avoided. Also, it is better to ignore to answer, if the questions are not clear or we are not able to comment. I will not comment if I didn't get the topic properly. This is one thing I found good at several times. Regards, Thank-s

If the response is out of the topic but still nice, I think the only possible reason is the responder did misread my topic, then I'll ask them to read my topic euphemistically, or explain my topic more detailedly in my comment.

I usually just don't comment back. But sometimes I do and I would tell them, "Yeah that's nice but the discussion is about..... So what do you think about it?" Or sometimes I will just (-) if it is totally out of the topic.

Better not to react at all ...

What I do? I ignore them. To my eyes, their answers are just icing on the cake and not the cake itself. It won't make my stomach full if I eat it up. However, there's also fun in reading them, especially if their comment has some interesting substance in it. Or humor. (because I like to laugh. ;P)

I think the best way is to neglect them. For even if they are off topic, but the writer does think of your topic and do want to give some input.

well after all its still nice. what's not nice is that there will be no reactors of your topic. that at least there are people taking time to read your topic and spending time too in posting their comments.