One liner responses?

One or two words doesn't even make up a sentence. When I take the effort to response I can some times get long winded! This is suppose to be a site that you share your views and opinions and to me one or two words can't express anything! I know I'm on another site and they can like or dislike your post. If they do either one, why don't they say why they like it or dislike it. Makes we wonder how they do at their place of work?

I respond to many everyday here. i always try and respond with at least 1-2 lines. I will never post 1 or 2 words. You great at long responces. Take care there. When do you go back to work there??

I'm guilty of that sometimes. But sometimes that's all I have. Sorry.

If one line says it all then why ramble on and on with more just to make it longer?

hi ricki and what really gets to me are ones that in that few words s ay so mething I can not even understand.In some one else's discussion on rape and controlling men this person wrote this"ah sad orange juice is sweet though." Now what the heck did that have to do with the discussion at all.? I reported it to admins as it was not furthering the discussion in any way at all.

I know what do you feel. I also dont like someone response with 2 or 3 words. What they want to show with 2 or 3 words? I dont think it have a quality if with only 2 or 3 words.

You are correct that that is not what a response needs to be. I always figure a post like that was made by someone who really does not understand English. On the other hand, one of my friends here is from another country and when I use an expression he does not understand, he takes the time, in the response, to ask me to explain it, and that works out well for both of us. I believe he is older than I am, but he is still learning, and I am learning to pay attention to how I express things. I really prefer discussions that I can get some meat out of.

Really? all the best, urban

I never respond to a discussion if all I have to say amounts to two words. Those discussions are the ones that I don't know enough about or maybe the topic itself is too generalized and does not promote much of a response, if that makes any sense. I suppose some people are on here just for the sake of making some pocket money and they will respond in any way necessary to increase their payout. Myself, I participate because it's fun and sometimes I might learn something or help others to learn something.

Well, I really haven't been seeing a lot of one line responses lately, but then again, I haven't really been spending as much time on here as I have been doing in the last several months because of the fact that my children have been home with me. I tend to think, however that the reason that this is happening right now isn't meant to be a slap in the face to anyone, but rather these are individuals that are new to mylot and really don't understand how the site works.

I try to respond to discussions with some length in order to get a conversation growing. There have been very few times that my response is short but I get annoyed when I get short responses from my discussions I start. I have often wondered if people who write short responses did not understand the message I was trying to convey. I like to see the discussion grow, when it can of course.

Hi.. that's not the way to post a response in just 1 or 2 words and i have never done that before.I always read the post and only then respond to it as you can see i have been here for a long time but have just posted a little about 350 posts.Its really mean to just post some spam material without any relevance to the post.At the most the only thins about my post might be some spelling error and now that's too not there because of the spell check activated in Firefox. Happy Myloting!!

1 or 2 words aren't enough, but I think that 1 or 2 lines is good. Sometimes I go a bit longer, but I find that when some people post 3 paragraph responses, my eyes glaze over and I don't even want to read it. It's not that I don't like reading, but I am not always convinced that it will be on topic or even logical.

I think that discussions should be at least 3-4 liner.Even when we start discussions,then it should be of 3-4 lines or more.As it is rightly said by Admin,"Please be as descriptive as possible". One liner or discussions having 1 or 2 words are not discussions.We can't understand those discussions or even respond properly.It is better to have "descriptive" discussions.

i always see a lot of these too, actually not just now but also from before as well. my take is that when we are not in the mood to say anything, we really cannot force ourselves to reply even if we cannot say anything, we are only going to damage our reputation at mylot and endanger ourselves with negative points.. or be reported. If you are the thread starter, it is really an insult. As i was insulted too, when i got a response full of ????????? with no words and everything. i could not even help but reply to the person that if he does not like my discussion, he could have just left my discussion alone if he didn't like it instead of sort of vandalizing my discussion thread. this is a great topic, by the way ricki... see you around mylot. :D

No need to get personal with those who reply with one or two words. As long as the meaning is conveyed, maybe it suffices. As to how they expect to earn by using one or two words response, they may be in for a shock. I suppose the 1- or 2- words response is not new, so the moderators know what to do about them. You just enjoy yourself in healthy discussions. Why let them bother you? Have fun, and cheers!

I guess some people use a phone for posting discussions, so that they maybe lazy to type a long discussion. Or sometime they just have no idea to write....then they just leave a short message like that. I am waiting my washing machine, then I type on mylot using phone also.

Yes I also observed many short responses but I used to give my response in more than 3 sentences and sometimes even more.In my responses every time I tried to give information very relevant to the discussion.We should not give responses in one or two word rather we should completely get involved in that and should add few more points to make the discussion more informative.

Yes Jokes aside, probably the other person just doesn't want to engage. That is one of the drawbacks of internet, you can write words, but you can't write your feelings. If you talk with feeling then the others will surely respond lively. God bless emoticons

Agree with you very much. People who just post one or two words really do not deserve to participate in the discussion forums. At least make a few lines to show that you are interested in the topic and not just do it for the sake of doing it.