Recycled Discussions

That happens. There are so many discussions going on here, all of them have probably been posted at least twice.

Yes I have also done that and I also apologise as it was unintentional

Yes I have done this and found that I got responses and the other one did not so I was really confused by it but I know that it can happen depends on what people are wanting to discuss from day to day.I think that some probably don't get responses because people want a real discussion and some donot bother to rate or even comment back so there are alot of factors I feel.

Every time I do a search before starting a discussion, nothing comes up. Then once I start the discussion, similar discussions show up at the bottom of it. Seems that the search doesn't work so well.

I try the search engine all the time, and it honestly doesn't always help. I posted about a news story just a few days ago about a teen who went to jail, only to find out that someone else had posted about it as well, and both of our topics were in the hot topics of the day that day. Man, I felt embarrased about that. But I had honestly tried the search first, and not come up with anything. I wish that there were an easier way to be certain that we aren't posting something repetitive, but with 60,000 plus users on the site the odds are that we can't post much of anything that hasn't been said in one form or another before, at least once in awhile! *laugh*

You cant avoid it anymore. Wih the growing number of people here in mylot, there's more and more people competing on new ideas.:P I often experience searching in mylotfor some discussions i have in mind , results are zero so off i go making a new discussion. Only to find out later that simlar topics already existed.