How old can a discussion to be too old for you to answer?

I answer if it is interesting to me, no matter what year it was created

No discussion is old for me. Actually discussion never be old. I respond any discussion I like. No matter when discussion is posted. Topic ans subject matter is important for me.

I have been busy withoffline things to do these last few months andhave not been able to keep up with the notifiers that are arriving when those on my friend list have started a new topic - but I have saved them all and one day, when I am back with my usually schedule and I know that I have time, I will start from the oldest ones and work through them. It will not matter how old they are, if I can relate to the topic I will respond and comment on the responses if I have something to add too. I have responded to discussions that are even 5 years old, regardless of whether the Lotter who started them is still active or not. It makes no difference at all as far as earnings are concerned because I earn for what I post. If the use is no longer active and does not come back and comment then I still left my opinion and it will end there, unless another user comments intheir place.

I have replied to 5 year old discussions at times, the age of the discussion does not matter to me. If I can place quality content with an aging discussion I will at times. Sometimes I discover a discussion in which I find can benefit new members. By placing a response to it, brings the discussion back up to the recent tab for many others to see. At times the discussion starter is no longer a member, that is okay because I have seen many interact after I have revived the discussion.

A year can be considered an old. But in terms of discussion every discussion is old one is no one responding on it. You can still help but not person who created the discussion but the person who will encounter the problem on later days to come.

hi stanley777, Before I respond to a discussion, usually I would see in advance the date of the posted discussions. Usually if the discussion is already over 1 month old, I will discourage intention to respond, because it is in my opinion already too long and probably are not needed anymore. But there are exceptions for discussions that do not care about time, in the sense that whenever we give the response will still be useful.

Well to tell you the truth I havent been on mylot for almost 2 years. And i decided to go back and answer some of the discussions that i started but were never able to reply to all of the people that responded. I dont think it is ever too late to respond to someone. So i say go for it. you never know you might start the discussion back up.

I just responded to a discussion today that was 2 or 3 years old. I have received e-mails that someone has responded to a discussion I started 3 years ago. I try to my hardest to respond to each and every response, regardless of how old the start of the discussion was.

The oldest discussion that I have responded to would be almost 4 weeks or almost one month. They are from friends discussions that I haven't responded to and are just in my email waiting to be read and responded. If the discussion needs to be responded right away, I would just apologize and respond anyway even if its a bit too late already. But for a 9 months discussion that needs to be responded right away for it needs help or advise, well, I will no longer be answering that I guess. I may already be too late and the discussion may already have been solved. So the oldest discussion I would have answered is one month only.

hi stanley777 The best thing here is that discussion never die you can respond to any discussion you want whenever you want but see that if others have posted the same thing which you are going to post then it might not be that helpful i haven't taken much part in old discussion lately but the oldest i did was 5 years ago and one one 3 years back i also got a reply from the discussion starter so we never know when some one reply us back

i guess aside from the age, the significance of the discussion to a person also count. three months ago, a topic might be really important to someone but today he or she might find it irrelevant. and maybe if you didnt answered to a discussion before and find it not worth answering now, well maybe it is indeed insignificant to you eversince... :) i really like the discussion you opened up here, tnx :)

I'm answering mostly to new disscutions, but I also use search for subject I'm interested in, or checking old disscutions of my friends and if I see something I wish to share about I'm answering no matter how old is the topic :)