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I think they might be saying is to say more than thank you and actually comment on the response. I know it's hard because sometimes you just don't have a comment other than "thank you". I don't want people to think I ignored them, so I always respond back.

I took that as Mylot telling us just that , that doing it won't increase your earnings but I didn't take it that they are saying you shouldn't do it after all a discussion is a discussion, I think it is nice to do.

I try to reply to all my responses too. It may not be individually, but maybe a longer reply that addresses what several people have said. I definitely reply when someone doesn't answer the question I was asking. Then I will say something about the fact that they misunderstood the question and here's what I was really asking. Sometimes, not too terribly often, a discussion will generate way too many responses and there is no way possible to respond to all that replied to the question. I wish there was a way to close a question when it has plenty of responses.

I think Its up to you if you want to leave a reply to any replies left on your discussions, but like MyLot said you wont be paid for them, which is a bit silly as this is sposed to be a discussion site! Anyway I think they meant they don't want pages and pages of people just saying a one word of 'Thankyou.' If someone leaves me a question or a very good reply, I think its only good manners to reply back to them, but i don't leave a lot of comments as its just too time consuming.

I'm pretty sure they are just saying we don't get any $$ for responding to our respondents of our posts. Wow-- is that a mouthful. I try to respond to most comments. If it was really helpful, I always do. I tend to answer more discussions when I know the person responds as well. Otherwise I get the feeling people are just posting to get more $$. I like to have some interaction. So I'm going to keep on commenting on people who respond to me. I also rate people.

I have a feeling that what it really means is that the way they calculate earnings, those replies to your responses would make a double earning. That does make some sense, if you consider that if you get 90 replies, and just do a one liner for each one, you'd double your earnings. The economics of that are fair enough. If everyone did that it would increase payout pretty dramatically, which doesn't make much business sense for myLot. Actually, that DON'T is good practice on a forum. It's realistic, because the standard reply becomes devalued, and you really don't have to do it. I posted on something a couple of days ago, and this guy replied to every single response with the same cut and paste! It was horrendous. (I got the standard reply, too, and I'd disagreed with just about every word he posted.) To say specifically that it won't increase your earnings is at least honest. Particularly when you see so many people with some pretty strange expectations about their earnings. Matter of fact, I like replying to responses, and it really doesn't bother me.

Well you start a discussion to know the view point of others so if you will not read and interact with others the purpose of such forum is lost. But anyway instead of posting thanks now I will also read and rate positively only.

In the beginning I commented on everyone's response. But as my discussions grew and my responses grew I found I just couldn't do this and have time to post too. So, I always read my comments and I comment on one or two. At least one per page, so people will know I have read that page and rated them. So far it is working out fine for me.

I thank everyone for responding to my posts i think the point mylot were making was that dont just reply by saying thankyou i think its a bit trivial myself but i add a little comment on the end of the thankyou and all are happy ( btw no need to thank me for this lol)keep posting tc xx

you can just rate them positive that is a sign that you have read them and acknowledged their effort.if you have a lot of questions then it would be very impossible for you to rate all of them.try making good quality questions ,limit it to a minimum.what is the use of posting so many questions just to make an earn but you have forgotten to take care all of it, remeber it is like maintaining friends.we can only handle so much. let's just have fun making friends!and earn more in some ways ,anyway we get paid for a cent just to shre with friends

i dont know but im pretty agrivated that i lost money because mt rating went down because i disagreed with someone so i lost 5 bucks im not supposed to thank people im not supposed to disagree with people so what is the point of this site oh i know to piss me off ...lol

I remembered reading that somewhere but took it to mean that we could say thank you but that we would not be recieving anything for it . I don't mind not recieving anything for it as it is on our own time but like to let ohter's know that I appreciated them taking the time out to answer my post .

i always try to do that but sometimes its really hard to keep up

I must agree with you there I do like to complement people on their post if required, and vice-versa, as if I give a good response, somtimes, a thank you is very nice. So I think that that rule is wrong.

You can respond by adding something to their comment or asking them a question for further details. They just don't want to see discussions with responces of simple "Thank you for your responce" because truely that doesn't add to the quality of the discussion. If someone makes a good point you can respond by saying that it is a good point and maybe a sentence stating why. Maybe someone brings up something you hadn't thought of, then respond that you like/don't like the idea and you were surprised you never thought of it like that before.... You know what I mean? It still shows that you read their comments but also adds more to the conversation. :)

Wow maybe i should check out the rules aswell... so many people tell me they earn from replying and i do reply just out of courtesy sometimes... Obviously i dont reply to all because i cant there are sometimes too many for me to reply to but i hope it doesnt affect your earnings as in it makes them go down? I didnt think it affected my earnings as in increasing them i just thought it was nice to reply to people.. Thank you for letting me know whats going on... I really would have probably started to belive you get paid for responding to people on my own discussions as there are loads of people who say you do earn from it.. Now i feel stupid ha ha ha Peace xXx

I was kind of shocked when I read the do's and don't as well. However, I still do it coz i think it is only courteous to at least acknowledge the responses to my discussion, unless of course the answers does not make sense or is similar to answers that have already been given in the thread. It's definitely won't increase posting count since all of us know that responses within the same thread in not counted. So I'll just do it anyway.. perhaps with a bit of additional comments just to make it different :)

I find that totally acceptable. This way they dont get a huge amount of thanks, leading no way in the discussion. Think about it: One discussion gets 50 replies. An eager thank you poster would write the same 49 times. Should that count towards his or her earnings? I find that ridicoulous!

I don't thank everyone who responds. I do however like to give a comment on something they said if it was useful to me or sometimes they ask a question back. I think it is rude not to give any comment at all to some replies.

I am on the same page with everyone else. I never thought of thanking people to increase my earnings. I just thought that was a nice thing to do. The person chose your discussion out of all these other discussions they could chose from. I think a thank you to them is the proper and kind thing to do.