Do you read other user's comments before you respond?

First, let me commend you on your effort to really read and take note of user responses and your effort to respond uniquely from others. You raise lots of points here. MyLot do have a unique way of paying users for their participation. In simple terms, their pay is not constant. And because of that, the algorithm they use to pay users kinda makes me curious. lol Then there's the response that could be similar to what another user had already responded...copying of answers is not very popular (supposed to be) here in MyLot.

There is another important reason why it pays to read other responses before posting our own too. Unfortunately sometimes there are users who think that it is fine to copy an article from another site and post it as a topic. That is plagiarism which is an offence and the topic will be deleted when admin sees it. There are many Lotters who spot these topics and warn both the user who posted the topic and they also leave a response warning other users not to respond because they will lose their post when the topic is deleted. I am so disappointed when I see a warning and then more responses following on directly below the response with the warning The user who posted the warning will earn nothing and has wasted their own time to warn others but it would appear that some just don't have the time to read and prefer to waste their time too Copying of answers is also plagiarism and not allowed.

If you're the first to the answer then I think there is no problem. But what if you're responding to a discussion that has already a lot of responses? There is a possibility that your answer might be similar to another person's, right? So that is the importance of reading responses first before contributing anything to your discussion of interest.

maybe i'm not well expressed myself. I means that when i read the item with the reading i know what i want to answer then the risk that also somewhere else have the same comment with the same words isn't great

youre right, but thats the reason why i answers that not allways i reading the comments

Thanks for that info and your opinion, Hatley! I'll be sure to keep the differences between comment and response in mind. Sometimes I mix them up because of certain social-networking sites...if you know what I mean. As for your opinion, you also have a point. You can't read all responses if they are more than what you can handle. But you do skim and scan around, right? If you can't read all of them, it's still better to know at least what was already contributed and know what you can add up, right?

I feel like I've made a good deed today. Thank you for reading and putting effort in keeping this important bit of information in mind!

I did read your other discussion regarding this topic and do find all comments interesting! I hold steadfast on my commitments to the values that I place on other's comments, before I add my own...as I feel I cannot rate them PLUS where I feel there is value! For me, the negative rating, does not exist...as each has a right to an opinion. @January5th....GOOD band, BAD name (OOPs, wrong, so many people are in "dire straights!")

You have a point here. And I don't think you're the "odd man". You just gave your opinion and that's great for me because I got a valuable information from you. Users rate other users so how can users rate a user if he/she does not read the responses or the comments of such responses? I think I got another great idea coming from this response alone, you know.

If you don't read everyone's response then you might post the same thing that someone else had posted and then your time would be wasted anyway

It appears, then, that I should not waste my time logging ontp MyLot. I do have a life.

That is good. It is our responsibility to inform another user if there are discrepancies. It is also good to contribute another good information to the public because people might need it. I like your style!

I can understand how you feel. Sometimes I just feel lazy reading them all... especially when responses are more than 5 pages already. It takes up too much time when I can use it to earn more by participating on more discussions. But when the pages are just less than 4, I tend to read them and sometimes, if I like the response or comment, I would rate them. How about you?

That's what I find intriquing...long discussions, like a good book, that you don't want to put down.

Sometimes those discussions with over 5 pages are really interesting, and it would be worth reading them all. I like to rate the answers I like too, though when I started and after that for a while I wasn't aware of this option.

So... you did respond, and read?

Kindly explain more, zaheerlive. I didn't get it at all.