Discussions that you will never respond to...

I generally do not reply to discussions that are in violation of myLot guidelines or ones which are about topics that are unknown to me. A good example of the latter would be discussions about television shows that I have never seen or rock bands which I have never heard. I avoid those started by someone who has been rude to one of my friends or is discussing subjects which are way too personal to be aired in public. A little dirty laundry is OK, but there are some things that happen to people that I just don't want to know about. I avoid repetitive whiners and proselytizers as well as discussions of a blatantly political nature. Then, as you say, I avoid the discussions of people who have a history of using other people, as in your example of never commenting back. I have experimented with working a gentle warning into my comments to see what will happen, and it has had very amusing results. In some cases, they say "oops!" and come right over. One guy, however, told me I'd enjoy myLot more if I quit keeping score. I told him I'd enjoy myLot more if I deleted him from my friend list, lol. I did, too, especially after his snotty reply. In fact, I don't have the time or inclination to "keep score" but after a time, it becomes obvious if someone is a user.

I never respond to a discussion which has written stupidity written all over it.

Well normally i don't respond to topics that i don't know about yea . unless i am intrested to know what is it about yea .

thanks for this post aseretdd...I learn a lot..Have a great day!

I don't respond to one liners either, so annoying. There's a few members here I ignore, because it's like a one way conversation, they'll just comment over and over "thank you for responding".

I don't really respond well to referral links myself and avoid those- they get annoying. Some one liners I like because they can be very intelligent thinker type discussions. I do have a tendancy to avoid posts that don't make sense and have misspellings so bad that you can't understand what the post is saying or what the writer wants. Everything else is fair game if I happen to be interested in the topic.

No i do not have particular rule that i will respond to some or not. i respond to those which attarcts me. Also i try not to answer any controversila thing. I also avoid the religious based discussion as I have no real idea about those.

i try to stay away from political or religious discussions. almost every board i've ever been on,the worst fights have always started from those two topics.just not worth getting involved.

Sure, aseretdd, there are some discussions I will not respond to. A case in point was one that I received in the myLot digest today. It dealt with incest, and that is not a place I would like to go. I don't know how it made it into the digest considering the subject matter and explicit nature. I have come upon a few more that I wouldn't touch. I also would like to say that I disagree with you about links since some of my most successful posts have contained links -and they were not deleted.

I don't respond to one word or line discussions and especially those that are just looking for referrals. They are all a waste of time.

Hello aseretdd, I never respond to a discussion about religion or whenever I sense that it is a bit racism. I hate political issue the most. I prefer to respond immediately to a light discussions about life and people. Sometimes, I do respond to one liner as I feel pity of them (mostly are newcomers here). Maybe they don't aware of the rules and whenever I have a chance, I will try to inform them about the rules. But if they still do the same, I will stop responding to them. I don't like to respond anything about making money online (especially with link). To my loyal friends here (like you), I will definitely try hard to respond *winks* Sometimes I feel guilty as I don't have any good opinion to give but still trying to respond.

the discussions i tend to stay away from are the ones that look like they could become heated arguements.i will only answer a discussion i know that i can respond too,or maybe that i might know something about.i don't really like one liners as well.cheers sue

Personally, I don't respond to discussions that are political, religious or anti-religious. Sometimes I respond to one-liners -- if it's a good question. Usually I don't respond to news articles or reports of research findings.

I won't respond to referral links, discussions where the person who started it is actively trying to pick a fight, usually politics as I want to say to the Republicans that post nasty remarks about the Democratic candidates "when was the last time you saw anyone on this board ask what is so good about the Republican candidate?" I'm not saying...I'm just saying! LOL! And, no offense if you are Republican...that is just one very specific discussion topic that I won't delve into at all because it is really hard for me to bite my tongue there! LOL! I am not crazy about one liners either because, as you can see...I am very wordy in my responses and, for me to spend that much time, I don't feel like the discussion starter really spent too much time starting it. So, why bother? I also don't like to respond to those who notoriously drop a discussion and move on. If they don't respond back, forget it! I took the time to respond to you, at the very least, tell me you hate me! But, don't ignore me! I am not here to boost your earnings. I am here to get to know people and have them get to know me by use of detailed responses from me to them and vice versa.

I don't respond to referral link discussions, I find them tacky as well as likely to be deleted. I also don't respond to any vulgar discussions, and there are many of them. And if someone is making fun of another mylotter in a discussion I don't bother with those either. Also, if someone is bashing someone's religion on no other basis than they simply don't like it, I won't go there either. When it comes to religion, I think knowing what you are talking about, is essential to a real and true discussion.

Well I seem to be in agreement with most of the above responses. I usually won't respond to a one liner either. If it's a really fun or thoughtful question I might though. I don't see many referral links, they must get deleted fast! I also am keeping better track of the guidelines and don't respond to discussions that violate those. I have been reading the blogs lately and have responded to a few, I don't know if responding there adds to activity ratings or not! And it's taken me a while to catch on to the members that never comment back - where's the fun in that! Oh, and maybe it's just a thing for me, but a really long discussion or one that's cut and pasted make me zone out and I don't get through reading them to respond...

There are a list of them for me. 1st of all all political discussions, then those with started in order to gain referrals, those discussions which are no longer interested for me. Also some discussions are so many times repeated, that once replied to a particular discussion, it's borig to reply to another discussion with the same comment.