How Do You Ever Catch Up?

Hi Tina! No, I can't and I don't know if I ever catch up any discussions made by other members since I am not active in starting new discussions. When I have time, I just log in my emails account and start read through and comment any discussion alerts in my email box that I could. If I want to read through each one of it, it will take so many hours and I am not sure if I can do that.(^^)

thats one reason i try to limit my discussions. a lot of people dont even concern themselves with response when they make a lot. i think its just rude to make a ton of discussions and never go back to respond on the comments i can see you do come back eventually so you are doing great.

That's why I don't start many discussions! I just finished a week of intensive house cleaning and repair to get ready to sell it and I'd posted a discussion a couple of days before my sister arrived to help me. I know I won't be able to reply to all those people but I have a good track record of acknowledging contributions and conversing with the respondents. So I'm not going to worry about it. Most of us who know you, know that you respond and converse with us so if you don't catch up you'll still be well regarded. Just start fresh today or tomorrow and post as many discussions as you know you have time for and no more. Note: I don't take my own advice sometimes. I'm behind on marking best responses by many years!

I don't comment on responses, there are just not that many hours in the day, I will answer questions, I do rate and choose the best response, but unless someone comes up with a very different response I don't comment.

I only start one discussion at a time, sometimes two mostly in relation with the first topic. Then, I won't start another topic until I am done commenting back to all responses.

Considering you're ranked 43 out of 27,663, I'd say your time is not so limited.

It all depends on your mood and also time. I always come here when in good mood and see that i answer all pending interesting discussions here. Some of the discussions which are not interesting is left behind as i never follow that. If i find anything very interesting, then i catch up that for sure. There are so man members who post too many discussions here and many of them are interesting to follow.There are times when i even spend more than eight hours just on this site alone

KrauseHome, just do what you can, I do not think posters here will be offended if you do not reply to every post they respond to. Life happens, do your best to catch up in your own way, we understand and will continue to reply to your posts no matter what. I check mine every few days, answer those I can and select a best response after a month or so. This method doesn't over-tax me and keeps me caught up.

I always try to comment on every response, but I still have many discussions where I didn't get back to everyone yet. I want to catch up and comment on every response, but it will take me a while to get that far. Sometimes I decide that I will stop starting new discussions and focus on the writing the last comments on the old discussions, but I find it hard to avoid new discussions. When I read or hear something interesting or when I experience something in my daily life I love to hear other people's opinion about that topic, and that is the main reason why I start new discussions every week. Some days I am busy with work and voluntary work and I am not able to spend much time online. When that happens I just write a few comments and return later when I am less busy.

It is tough..try as we might, we miss out on a few. It seems so rude! :(

Yes, it is hard to to keep up on all responses to our discussions we post. But remember the more we reply back the more money we make. There are times when I only get a few replys back to post or discussion I started. We can only do the best we can on time we have. Remember this is suppose to be fun and not work. It also place to get ideas if we are stump on something. Thanks and have a great day Sincerely Unique16

This is a practical problem but it is so well if you do your best to communicate with your fans and don‘t matteter whether you have posted back all or not I think.

Hi, Krause, it's easy only if you don't have many responses :)) I also don't have enough time and sometimes I make my comments the next day. But lately I'm not in a mood do start discussions and I just jump from one discussion to another and I search for an interesting situations. Have a nice time!

I have some discussions I posted maybe around the end of last year and still haven't been able to response to many of them. I feel bad like I'm just doing it for fun and not taking responsibility but it' not like that. I am reallly busy these days and I hardly get the time to get on here. But surprisingly, i prefer responding to new discussions than responding to my own :(

hehe common problem, this one discussion of yours. =) i think i have not catched up with the other topics i created, but i sure try to post in most of them. usually i had to spend most time trying to respond to each and everyone of the responses i get. but sometimes, i back away from doing that and respond to posts created by others. =)

If I start a discussion I will go back and try to keep the conversation going before I start another. As you said, there is so few hours in a day and I have a company to keep up with so it takes a little effort to not start more than I can finish.

hi krause. i prefer to respond to discussions over starting a new one. however, when i do start a new discussion, i make sure that i always check back the discussion if there are any responses so i can immediately reply back. i've seen many of my discussions left unattended and seeing all those responses, sometimes i feel too overwhelmed in replying back. anyway, i've learned to managed my discussions by setting aside an allotted time, usually an hour or two but largely dependent on how many discussions i'll go back to, dedicated solely to answering and replying back to the mylotter who participated in my started discussions. anyway, i'm sure the more tenured mylotters can share their tips as well. hope what i wrote helped krause. cheers and happy mylotting!!!

I don't usually have a problem catching up. I am retired and am online most of the day. I do alittle on Mylot then I go over to Facebook and play a game or do some research. If I can keep on top of the discussions and responses I am okay. But if I get lethargic and I don't work at it then it over powers me and takes several days to get caught up. I hate that.

I know - it's hard isn't it? I try to respond within a few days, but that's even a stretch sometimes. At times, I did not respond back until a month later - yah, that's so late - but better late then never, right? They say you're not obligated to respond but I think everyone appreciates it when you do. Yah, wish I could be here all day but it's just not possible - life takes over!!!

I kinda have a 'myLot-procedure' I go thru as much-of as I can. If I don't get through all of it in one day, then I start afresh the next day whenever I get to myLot. I open myLot & go to my unresolved discussions (as far back as I can) and check on the oldest 'resolvable discussion' (because you can't "resolve" `em until there's at least one response) that's older than four weeks. After responding to- & resolving that discussion, I respond to another member's discussion-start. Then I go back to my unresolveds and rspond/resolve if there's another one four weeks old or older, and then another member's response; and so-on until I've resolved all the 'resolvables' older than four weeks. Then I start another discussion. When I check my email, I'll respond to all the replies to my additions-to-others'-discussions, checking- & replying to-responses to one of my started-discussions between every time I reply to another reply. ("Hu's on first!" "Who's on first?" "That's what I said---Hu!") Then I start another discussion. Then--after responding to someone else's started--I'll reply to another set of responses on one of my starteds, and go back and forth between others'- & my starteds, until I've responded to the first full page of my started; when I'll start another discussion. The same for the next full page of my starteds, and again for the next, and so on. I usually don't even get to the third discussion-start of the day, and the next day I start at the very beginning.