Too Many Responds to Comment?

Well, over the course of the 4 1/2 yrs. I have been a member here, I have started many different kinds of discussions. I am sure many of them might not have warrented as many answers back like some of the others, but unless it was date or time specific a lot of times they continue to get responses back to them, even if a Best Response has already been chosen. Personally for me it is quite interesting to keep up and see what people are writing and hey anytime I get a response back to a discussion even if it is older, it makes me feel appreciated for sure.

I have to say, I have never started and unnecessary discussion. I do remember once, I have a very popular discussion topic that I started. I didn't intend on it being as big as it was. The end result was I think 78 responses, I knew I could not respond to them all, so I just stopped lol. This was a while ago. Here and there I still find people responding. So I would just have to admit that I've never started an unnecessary discussion, but I did start a discussion that I didn't intend of being as big as it was. And no, i've never tried to stop people from commenting.

Hi Jen! This was the exact thought which was traveling in my mind for the past few days and you just stole my thought and started a discussion on this issue. I also sometimes feel the same way. When I start a new discussion, I expect some good responses, however, when I do not get, I feel little bit disappointed and I also think that not many users are interested in the post. Sometimes, my perception and respondents’ perception also differs and I feel that purpose of starting the post got defeated. In these types of scenario I feel that I should award the Best Response sooner than later to ‘close’ the discussion so that flow of ‘responses’ should come down to minimal.

Jenn sorry I was not around in that discussion! I respond based on the topics. And if I am too caught up with something, I just dont get beyond a few discussions. But you are never forgotten..

I guess you are lucky to have found such wonderful friends in here It's really not about the best response or whatnots that determines if the discussion should be stopped being responded to or not. For most of use here its the fun and the interaction we get in a discussion that matters. A wonderful exchange of thoughts and ideas with one another makes a good and healthy discussion. For me there are no unnecessary discussions, a question or an information could go a long way if the group of people that discuss or interacts in it are livelier and can really make a wonderful contributions on it. I don't stop my friends or whoever from responding in my discussions actually I encouraged more people to respond in it but only time will tell if I can respond to them soon enough.

Yeah I know what you mean this happened to be and I just became overwhelmed with how much responses I had to give back because I just couldn't get to everybody. I do feel bad, but hey it was to much for me to handle so I guess I will try to not post up so many discussions.

Hi Dear Jennyze! I think I too have read the discussion of yours! But it was already discussed by many members! So since there was nothing much to add to the discussion I didn't respond! Well some times we may tend to post such discussions, which we don't do with any malafide intention! Since you have placed your ideas and invited others' ideas, I think it is fine! Let others respond to your discussion and accordingly you can respond back! Mylot members are matured enough to understand which discussions are to be responded and which ones are not to be! So I feel it is best to leave it to them to respond! So long I never faced any such situation , I really can't say what would I do! I am happy that after giving best response your responses stopped! But then let me tell you one thing that I still respond to a discussion which I feel is of my interest even the Best Responsehas been already selected by the memeber who hasposted it! LOL! Thanks for the discussion!

Hello Jenny, I agree it is not an easy task to comment back to all people when you get tremendous number of responses. But don’t you think it is always our pleasure to get huge number responses. Then how do you think that selecting the BR will stop the replies. It (resolved topic) never stops me to write a reply if the topic is interested. Ok in your case, that problem faced by all of the members here so everybody wanted to comfort you and explain their experience to you. Your topic is not an unnecessary one like the way you think. Unnecessary topics never get any response; please keep this in your mind dear and be happy.

jennyze too many responds to comment, just do as many in a day as you can as we all did you the honor of responding to your discussion. jen you do not have to do that all in one day. why on earth would you want to stop people from responding as its there to respond to.I relish the more the merrier and I do not give best responses until at least a week has gone by so all my friends have time to respond if they wish, that time is what mylot admins itself says is best to wait. I do not know exactly what you mean by unnecessary discussion unless you are saying you made s discussion on a topic already discussed? I never try to stop people from responding to mine, why should I? I am totally confused to what you mean but am glad people did respond to you I let people respond and how on earth could I stop anyone, I am really puzzled by the way you worded this. in fact I believe its wrong to try to stop people from responding to any discussion as once its put out there we are free to respond to it and nobody can tell us we can not.You must not try to stop anyone from responding to yours or to anyone elses.

Jenny... What are you talking about? Wasting time responding to your discussion ? Why ? Don't, even for a moment, assume that i would stop responding to you even if you have resolved the discussion already, okay... Oh, and i think about you... A lot.....

I just go with the flow and respond sweetie. No use leaving it. At least you can have fun with it.

Hello Jennyze, I have started some question and answer discussion when I was looking for something specific, and in these discussions I give a BR when I am satisfied by a response, sometimes after a few hours only : as you said it generally dissuades other members to give a response. I am not looking for many responders, but I feel honored when I get many, and I would not stop a discussion... because it is popular. I know it can be boring to respond to everybody when the responses are not varied enough to be pleased to do it, but I think that my responders have made an effort to give me a response, and that I have to make the same effort for them.

Hmmmmmmm unnecessary discussion no I think my all discussion is informative and true incident. I observed my most of the discussion is on the top list it means I received a mylot digest mail from mylot and my discussion is also there like if you are seen then yesterday was "Is computer is necessary for child", today is "Upload picture and earn money" previous some days ago "Why cyber crime is increasing day by day" etc. So I put only one or two discussion per day but that is informative and mostly I responses more than 10 daily.

I'm just new here in mylot and I haven't started my own discussion yet. I just reply to an existing discussion and enjoy reading other members comments. I can't think of a good topic for now that is why I haven't started a discussion. If I'll be having the same situation wherein many people replied to my post, I won't stop them and let them reply if they're enjoying it.

i dont start that many discussions, so i generally try to answer each one.

Definitely I think that since everyone has played a variety of topics that were not discussed much but over time you learn. The more one reads and writes more good discussions started. Have a nice day!