Time to do away with those old, rusted zero responses

@rajeshfgh (1629)

• India

14 May 09

I too feel that members must follow their discussions and respond to the replies too. After all that is what constitutes a healthy discussion. Discuss all the pros and cons or a particular thing and then reach a common consensus. Not all topics, though, are of such a type.

katsalot1

@katsalot1 (1618)

•

13 May 09

I don't respond to responses on my discussions if I have nothing to say. It does say in the guidelines not to just say 'thanks for your response'.

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byfaithonly

@byfaithonly (10698)

• United States

13 May 09

I don't think I have any now with zero responses - did last year and sent a couple pms to good friends and they helped me out :) Friends here at mylot are wonderful. Often when I'm bored and have nothing to do I'll just go to the 'no responses' tab and respond to any of those I can leave a quality response on. Right now I have over 100 friend's discussions to go through so certainly not bored just your discussion caught my eye.

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byfaithonly

@byfaithonly (10698)

• United States

16 May 09

:) added you as friend but will warn I have been extremely busy last few months and may not be able to reply to all discussions but do try.

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@rajeshfgh (1629)

• India

14 May 09

Well, all the best! I think that you are busy in replying only to your friends and are not concerned with other Mylotters out here! I'd say it's better to be in your friend list then

. Am sending you a friend request, please add me and please respond to my discussions too.

Thanks. Happy Mylotting.

@rajeshfgh (1629)

• India

17 May 09

Hey, you don't have to be sorry or anything. I was just joking about the posting part. Nice to have a friend like you. Happy Mylotting!

stahir45

@stahir45 (103)

• Pakistan

14 May 09

Hi Rajesh! I'm also not able to figure out as to what is the criteria behind some posts don't get even a single response. I am only a new in the myLot community of friends. The idea you are suggesting to start reading the 'no response' posts sounds great. But at the same time it will be nice of our myLot friends to, if possible, analytically assess those with zero response and if they find out any reasons for those not getting a response and make suggestions will be a great encouragement and will help improvements. I had a couple with zero response but I did feel that my posts were fairly positive and meritorious for eliciting responses but I didn't receive one. Anyway, thanks for your ideas.

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stahir45

@stahir45 (103)

• Pakistan

15 May 09

Hi Rajesh! You have encouraged lot of people to speak about and give suggestions as to how people with zero response should be responded if they do really have something worthwhile to respond. Thanks again.

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@rajeshfgh (1629)

• India

14 May 09

Hi Stahir, you really can't analyse human behavior. As I have mentioned in one of the replies, there is no particular reason for zero responses whatever be the quality of the posts. I think it all depends on luck and maybe the wrong timing of the posts when most of the members fail to see the post at all. It's what I feel. Maybe somebody else can give me a more logical answer.

katsalot1

@katsalot1 (1618)

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13 May 09

I do try to do this every now and again, but sometimes it is a discussion that I can't respond to. For instance if it is something like 'what do you think of ...something I've never heard of'. All you can say is I've never heard of them. Or those discussions that are giving an opinion without wanting an answer. I have a few with no reponses by the way!

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MysD

@mysdianait (66009)

• Italy

13 May 09

If you do make a response that is saying you know nothing about the topic and can't help out it could backfire

This is what it says in the Guidelines: 'Please make sure you give your best effort to respond with quality responses. If you don’t know how to respond to a discussion, go on to the next one. Answers like “I don’t know” or “I don’t care” don’t help anyone and will be removed.'

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@rajeshfgh (1629)

• India

14 May 09

Hey, thanks for the suggestion mate. I will keep it in mind and try and use the search engine to find out stuff I don't know about a particular topic and then post in detail about it. Now, that I have got down to the task, there's no stopping me...

@rajeshfgh (1629)

• India

13 May 09

Now that I've started responding to such posts, I know what you're saying. There are some which I never heard of. But, still I am gonna post something, like you suggested of not having heard or of not agreeing, even if it is a one-liner. I am on a clean-up mission..... Requesting everybody to get their hands dirty too....

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Ozarkgirl

@Ozarkgirl (774)

• United States

13 May 09

I totllay agree with you all. We are here to learn stuff, help out others, and be friends so we should not leave any response at zero. So I say if you see any that have yet to gain a response be a great neighbor and leave one. Happy Mylotting All!!!!

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MysD

@mysdianait (66009)

• Italy

13 May 09

We all have friends on our list and we can send them a PM asking them to help us out. Isn't that what friends ar for after all?

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@rajeshfgh (1629)

• India

14 May 09

You're right. Infact I would go one step further and request the admin to send an alert message to everyone regarding the same. It would be quicker for the admin to do it rather than we PMing each and every member. Please let me know, if there is any quick way to PM all our friends at once.

@rajeshfgh (1629)

• India

13 May 09

Totally agree with you. You've hit the nail on the head. It's a total give and take relationship here among the members and that's what I like about Mylot. Happy mylotting to you too.

boogerman

@boogerman (1544)

• Philippines

14 May 09

Good day, rajeshfgh! Well, I try sometimes to respond on old discussions, especially those having no response. I dig topics when there are no new discussions under my interests and my friends' started. They got no response maybe because some members are not familiar with the topic or did not find it to be interesting. I try to respond on them as long as I can. Happy mylotting!

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@rajeshfgh (1629)

• India

14 May 09

That's really great. I had never ever though about that section the till day before, when I was saddened to see that I could do nothing with my zero responses posts, it were lying there helpless in the unresolved section. I well try and respond to as many as possible which I am familiar about. You too do the same, please. Happy Mylotting!

Bohemian77

@Bohemian77 (277)

• United States

14 May 09

I do the same thing. I go way back into the old discussions and give them replies. There are alot of old threads on here that are wonderful, and deserve to be brought back up front, so to speak :)

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KrauseHome

@KrauseHome (36448)

• United States

15 May 09

Well, from time to time I will go thru the NO RESPONSES section to see if there are discussions that others might have missed that I would be interested in responding too. Also from time to time I will go thru my friends list to see if there are discussions that I might have missed, and any time that I start a New discussion I will rate each response, as well as check that persons New discussions that they have started and usually respond back to one of their discussions if there is one I am interested in, and have not already responded back to it.

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@rajeshfgh (1629)

• India

16 May 09

Hey, that's cool. You really take good care of your friends. That's a good schedule that you follow. I will try and do the same. Care to add me as your friend too?

SomeCowgirl

@SomeCowgirl (32191)

• United States

13 May 09

A few discussions have been started on this topic already, but I do agree we need to start responding to the no responses and maybe one day they're will never be but a few pages of "no responses". Have fun responding!

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@rajeshfgh (1629)

• India

13 May 09

Yeah, sorry, I realized it when I submitted my discussion with the 'similar articles' page. Anyway I've already started responding to such post and am feeling very good about it. If possible, please do the same. Happy posting to you too.

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SomeCowgirl

@SomeCowgirl (32191)

• United States

13 May 09

I have done so already and hope to continue to do more today, although it is getting harder to find those of which I can respond to.

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Karen Waterson

@rosekiss (30380)

• Eugene, Oregon

13 May 09

I started 3 discussions, and 2 of them only got 1 response each. The other one had several responses, but nothing to the extreme of a 100 responses. That discussion must have either been boring, or really interesting that it got that many responses lol. I usually only respond to the ones that interest me and lots of those are pretty redundant lol. that it amazes me that people will still respond to them, and I guess you could say I am one that posts to the redundant discussions lol. I guess I figure that maybe just one of these days people will stop making such redundant discussions. Oh well, this site is fantastic with or without those discussions. Good luck to you and happy mylotting.

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