Do you answer every comment made to your discussion?

I seem to remember reading somewhere in the guidelines that this is not necessary, and in fact not advised. You should only reply to comments made in discussions you start if the response justifies it, by bringing up a new point, or asking a question. Since short, one line posts are generally discouraged, if you were posting lots of 'thanks for that' replies, mylot would see that as spam and probably penalise you for it anyway. But if you really wanted to thank those who responded to your discussion, you could do it intermittently as a reponse in the discussion itself, maybe summarising the general consensus and saying how the replies have helped you, or changed your mind, etc.

NO, but try to make up to 20 per day.

Not all the time. If i have something to say to their response then i will but if its just a general response then i dont really thank them for making a comment. I was told by another mylotter that it was against mylot rules but i'm not sure about that. I think its nicer to thank them anyways for making an effort to respond :)

I try to respond to every response made to my discussions. I don't start too many anyway, but I started one discussion that ended up with close to 130 responses. It took me forever to respond to everyone, and as fast as I was responding, more responses were coming in LOL. I actually like to respond to people who answered my discussion. It's only fair that we show appreciation for the fact that people took the time out to answer. So long as it's not just a simple "thanks for responding" every single time, I don't think admin have a problem with it.

I think it is not necessary to respond to all people who commented on your post. But if you are not lazy to do so and acknowlegde their effort having time to capture their attention on your post, that would be nice. In a way you give more encouragement to your responders to participate often!

Hi MamaC! I am a member of an artist site that allows comments from, people on artwork. I do sent a little thank you but mostly the best thank you for another artist on that site is to comment on their work as well and visit their portfolio. Here, I would think "thanks for commenting, have a good day!" is just fine because otherwise we would give ourselves carpal tunnel just saying thanks to people that commented LOL!

will , i have not too much responds , but i always try to respond and rat and choose the best comment , but sometimes i find the reply is too short and there is nothing to say about and if i say only thank u , it will be spamming , so some times there is something to say and some times not , but about it can't be a line , i think the reply is not counting , so the important in the line is the value in it not how many words in it , i think .

I generally try to reply to most of the comments left on my posts, even if it's just a simple thank you. The times that I usually don't reply is when there's really nothing to reply TO, such as people who leave comments that have absolutely nothing to do with the topic of discussion (which is really rather irritating).

It is a shame that I dont comment as much i would like, but reading your discussion has inspired me to do so! I really should take some more time to thank the people kind enough to reply to my discussions.

i comment back to everyone cuz i, ALSO as you, feel if they took the time to read what i wrote and commented on that, i almost owe it to them. i think it builds a better rapport with people here too. that you're reading what THEY had to say...it may boost your reputation star points as well! cuz i moved up FAST, and think they may be part of it. because more people will rate you, if they know you're sincere, well that's how i view it anyway!! great question mamacathie!!

Sometimes i do, but generally I respond only the interesting commentaries