How do you feel when a friend started a similar discussion like yours?

Hmmm I not feel bad because I know my friend's view will be different from me and their thinking will also different. Like in English one word meaning may be many the same in discussion we can create lots of discussion on one interest.

hi secretbear no as I do not think anyone can duplicate incidents from my own life which is what I use to make most of my discussions with, that or on some facet of mylot.None of us have the same exact life experiences so I am pretty safe there.Living here in a retirement center I have a lot of fuel for discussions so seldom run into any duplications.I have had little help in the mylot search engine for duplicate discussions. I just post and have not ever had a duplicate at all.

Only once and I don't know if it was by accident or not. She was kicked off mylot shortly after that...but she never found out why! I felt a little like she was a copycat....not real happy about it but with all the discussions that are started everyday it's hard not to have a couple that are just alike!

Hello Secretbear, Can I ask a question, is this just the first and second time that your friend started a similar discussion? I think having a duplicate posts in this site would really be possible. With a lot of members and some would even have the same mind set with you. I think I remember experiencing this one, of course, I would be offended at first but then again, if I know I am the original one, I would be proud with my work because someone became interested with what I wrote and even tried to make his/her own discussion with that. Sometimes, some of us don't use the search button as the site is so big that there are a lot of discussion. I, would use the search button sometimes, but when I just want to post what I want, I would no longer use it. So, sometimes, I am not sure if I have a duplicate discussion or not. Just don't mind them, as long as you know that you are not the copy cat you can still put your heads up high. Enjoy your day and Happy mylotting red_amethyst

I have seen a couple similar to what I have started although I must admit it was sometime before they started their topic so it was really coincidental on their part. I was okay with it as I was fully informed about the topic so I was easily able to respond to the discussion. There is really no rule with similar topics as many of us can think the same. If it were duplicate then that would not be allowed. I guess if it happens way too frequently and or repeatedly then I would ask the member why they are doing as such. It really has not happened too frequently to mine but I guess I really did not feel bad. But you are right we should be courteous at least to our listed friends and not start similar type of discussions.

Yes it did happen to me, I am just not sure whether they have intentionally copied the discussion or not. But as for my short experience here, since I am so new here ^^... I started a discussion and then the next day one of my friend would start a similar topic, though the title was changed, the topic has the same thoughts it was saying. I feel like -- Huh??? Eyebrows raised and then forget it. LoL. Although I could say that somehow I have maybe done the same thing too, but never realized it because I was not friends of those I have similar topics and they have posted a similar topic maybe long time ago. I usually find it out after posting the topic and below some related tags would be displayed. Sometimes I do use the search engine too to check whether a similar and new discussion like what I'm thinking was already posted. Other times, I don't coz it eats up my time =)

I think this is fine for me. After all, it is too difficult to think out an unique discussion and most of the discussions here are similar with each other. But the content is different. For example, when Steve Jobs was gone, there were many discussions about him at that time. But they didn't copy each other. Great minds think alike:) I love China

No, fortunately not. But I would not be happy if one of my friends came up with a very similar idea to mine on myLot or on any other websites. It would be less than polite and unfair from a faithful friend. Please let me share a short story with you. I work for an international company where the workload is high and we have to do lots of overtime before quarter ends. Before the last quarter ended we were still working in the office at night. It was almost 10 o'clock p.m. One of my colleagues told us she would upload "We're the champions" on Facebook immediately when she got finished. But when she got there, this hit had already been uploaded by someone else from her team. I was truly sorry for her.

i think it would be a bit annoying i have seen some people here who are highly active in a discussion then after a few hours they themselves create a similar discussion with no new idea just different words it a bit annoying as we already know him and he has copied the same idea of ours but other than the topic if the discussion starter has a different opinion then i guess there should not be any problems

This has happened to me loads of times and i will not worry about it when it happens.I tend to just type a discussion without even looking to see if anyone has started a discussion that is like mine, as there are too many discussions that have been started over the years since this site has been running.

I always inspired new discussion by discussions answer.. When I see other started my discussion I feel bad, because I need thinking new discussion, sometimes new discussion don't came to me. Last 2 weeks I can't thinking new discussion, because I think all what can I think are boring and nobody don't write me... So now I just write answers...

Honestly, I don't even know if this has happened to me, or if I did it to anyone else accidentally. I mean, it can really be hard to tell if someone did that on purpose. I think these people who started exactly the same discussion as yours cannot think of something new, or are just trying to ask additional information about the subject. Of course, they can also do that by simply replying to your thread. I don't know. I just hope I will not be one of them, or am I?

There were a times here in mylot that I always get a message from them telling me that my response, comment or discussion I started was deleted due to multiple posting. If so happen that you are the first poster than the other one, then mylot will delete the other discussion. Just remember to search first for a discussion before you post your idea here in mylot and I hope that the other user do the same too!

I don't feel much. Because the same thought they may get. But sometimes I saw same discussion started by friends with slight difference. So may be they got influenced by us and start the same kind of discussion.

Let us welcome everyone who post a discussion of their own. It can be an offset to what it is that we have posted before but, is being presented in a different context, consider it to be just okay. It is true that there are some discussions here that are just offsets or offsprings of some discussions which have been responded to. Feel happy about it. It means that the topic you have posted has reeled the minds of other mylotters to deep thinking or could have touched them in a different way. Feel offended and cry foul if, somebody makes a copy paste of your discussion though and notify mylot admin about it immediately for their appropriate action.

then i am glad because we are the same thinking for some times....