How important is it to you?

I don't always give a thank you, but commonly leave comments. It helps to keep the discussion going.

I always thank people for their input to my discussions, unless it´s a one line answer or something that doesn´t make sense. If it´s from somebody who is struggling with his English and I don´t understand his post, I will ask him/her politely what they mean. I like to keep the discussion going. Another way of thanking people who have posted is to rate their answers.

Well because I am not in the States, many of the comments to my discussions come in when I am sleeping, so I admit I do not say "thank you" to everyone individually. However, I do read through all replies the next morning, and take the time to rate everyone who responds to me, and to choose a best response. Many people here seem so hung up about the money, that they just want to post mor and more topics without bothering to go back to their old ones, and I think that is rude too!

I make sure that respond to evry user considering his point of view when the number of responses are in the range of 10-20 but in cas of large responses say for about 80-100 i generally respond to first 20 and then randomize according to the ratings of user...it helps discussion to be alive...

A response if nice, but to be honest, sometimes when there are many pages, I find it frustrating to have to go and find my response, I wish myLot would put in an easier way to find your own response.

I try to as well I think it is nice to do. I do sometimes forget to go back for a while..... I also try to answer all the questions of people that are my friends on here I figure it's the least we can do for each other!

I read every response to all of my discussions. I will comment on many of the responses. I rate each response to my discussions. Many of my discussions have a plethora of responses. Many times the response that is left to a discussion is similar to many other responses. I do not feel it necessary to leave a comment on every response that is received.

Anytime I start a discussion - I always take the time to reply to each and every comment that is made on mine because not only can it keep the discussion going but I might want some more information from the person if I think they are providing helpful thoughts or advice that I would be interested in hearing more of. That's just who I am - I truly enjoy reading each comment left whether they agree or disagree - everyone is entitled to their own opinion and sometimes it just makes it all more interesting when you respond to a comment and ask them something back and then they reply again!!!

If the response is relevant and helps to move the discussion forwards, then I'll respond with a comment relevant to what they have said. If people just leave a oneliner which may not even be relevant, then I might just either leave a short thank you for responding, if the comment was even vuagely relevant, or just ignore it if not relevant. Hope this was helpful to you.

I would really love to have a response from the discussions that I have responded. But I can't expect that each one of the people here will do that,especially having toms of discussions being post everyday. It would be very hard for the author of the post to read each of the response. How can she/he will participate to other discussions or how they would post a new one.

When I first joined up with this site, I didn't always go back and leave a comment as I guess I just never really thought about it. Now however, I make an effort to leave a message of some sort, even if it's just Thanks, so that the people who responded knows I actually read their response. I love to keep discussions going as well so I find sometimes it helps to leave additional comments.

I try to respond as often as possible. Im thankful for people who have taken the time to post for me. Sometimes I just put a quick comment in though.

LOL Beanie. I know where this one comes from. Personally, I don't expect to be thanked for my answers. If someone does once in a while, it's nice but it doesn't change how I feel about the person. If my answer was a good one that really helps in some way, getting thanked tells me that. If it was just a regular response, not something special, I may feel that the person is just trying to boost their own image. No, I don't feel that way about you, Beanie. But as I said in another discussion, mylot doesn't want us to reply to every response in our discussions. I don't know why, unless it's just that much more burden on the system without adding anything useful. And I think you're going to get very tired of trying to keep up with all the responses. But it's good to think about it.

you shouldn't feel compelled to respond to any questions,you should only respond if you feel that your answer would be of benefit to the person posting

It's important but then again, it isn't. Confusing, eh? I feel I should respond to replies in some way. Then the TOS come into play. We're not supposed to reply with 1 liners or just a thank you. Some replies don't really need to be responded to, while others do. I guess I would have to say, it depends on what the reply is. God help me if I ever started a discussion that got a lot of replies. LOL I feel it's rude not to respond too, but I don't want to be dooped by mylot for breaking any rules.

The only time it would matter to me is when I have a question and someone doesn't respond to it, that is when I take it personally. I don't think it is rude if you don't thank everyone that responded to your discussions, unless you have something to add and didn't, then that is a different story.

Beaniefanatic, I don't know if anyone has yet mentioned this but if you look under the guidelines of the site, you are not supposed to write back to everyone just to thank them. I think that it is okay to write back if you have more to say than just thank you, but you could potentially get in trouble for just saying thank you. I don't mind if people don't reply to me. In fact, only about 10% of the time do I even make it back to look at topics that I reply to. Mostly if they are really close friends of mine on the site, I will go back to see if they replied. To me it's not that important to get a reply, but I think that it is really, really sweet that you want so much to reply to everyone. I like to reply to my discussions, too, lately, but I didn't used to do it as much as I am now. I really figure that most people don't even come back looking, anyway. but some do, and it's fun to reply when I have something to say back! ^_^

I do find it nice and respectful but not important and i find it very hard to reply to all of them as sometimes i have 100 responses in 48 hours i would spend all ma time thanking everyone and not doing anything else and i dont think i should have to do that really.... I do appreciate all that respond to my discussions though and i think i make it obvious by replying to theirs not saying thank you on my own

i try my best to respond to at least one friend's discussion..i really do my best..i rate everyone that replies to mine..even if it is one line..as they made the effort to bother to post in mine..i had someone make over 20 posts yesterday on my friend's list but i couldn't go through all of them..so i feel it is a balance we have to reach..i am limiting myself to around three posts a day of my own..so i don't become a burden to my friends by overposting..and i try to reply to each friend..so i do my bit for them ..i reslly feel happy if people pist me a reply..not for the money..the fact thast i perhsps could contribute something..

I personally find it polite to reply ... but on saying that sometimes it's extremely hard to write something for a reply when the comment is only a handful of words. Most people don't reply simply because MyLot make it clear in their terms of discussion that you don't get paid for replying to comments on your posts - so you just get another point next to your name and that's it.