Do you read the topic posted?

allknowing! I read the topic posted but sometimes I can miss one or two sentences; I feel guilty at such times and go over the topic once again and add something else later occasionally. I see what you mean; I have come across those kinds of responses and respond suitably in a very brief manner. I interact a lot with people who have time and inclination to respond relevantly to the topic but with regard to others who just add numbers, I still respond; it is up to them whether they choose to write quality responses or not. I will get the answers I am looking for from some other people. So, I do not bother if all don't respond the same way.

Yeah i've noticed what you are saying too. Sometimes. Basically i think that some are just bored to type up a comment. Some others might not understand the whole text and in turn also not pocess the vocabulary to express themselves. So it is easier for them to just make up an easy comment and hopefully make some money. You know what i mean... But surely a lot of those people who have a hard time understanding a post will get beter over time. And on the other hand i am sure that if one posts a post written on an academic level. A lot of people just wont be able to respond to that simply because of the words which are being used. Longer and harder words are not so easy for non-native English speakers to understand sometimes. I mean for me English is my 3rd language actually. But i just have the whole language thing it comes naturally to me. I cant cook though. Not very good at fixing cars. I can talk languages as if they were all my native tongues. With the accents and everything... :p

I am pretty certain that I read all the topics I respond to but I understand your frustration here. I also get frustrated by people who insist I should be their friend but never post any kind of topic I can relate to. In the case of responses that do not match the topic, I have seen people say, bluntly, "You have not read the topic". If I think it is just a misunderstanding I restate the topic to the responder in my comment.

i think maybe some people may not be reading what you are saying right. when this happens to me, i re-read the discussion to make sure i understand what the poster is talking about before i post.

hi allknowing I do read all the discussions as ia ha ve been done that t oo to many times. I will comment this way, did you read any of the discussion besides the title as you are not making sense,. go back and read all and I will reword this a bit for the next people who do this to me and by and by people will actually read all of my discussion and respond with common sense responses,. There is a way to wake some people up without being mean to them.

I agree with you my friend. That is why I always make sure, when I reply to a discussion I understand it as well. It's good to have a conversation about a certain topic when both of you have a mere understanding on each other.

Hi allknowing, not only the topic I read the whole content as well in case it arouses my interest. I would like to share a little of my view and feeling if I really have My language is not that good or may be what I have typed doesn't hit the right nail. at least it's still related to the content I hope. Yeah, I enjoy to have forth and back discussions if the two sides yet have something to share with. I understand that if it's rather difficult to comment back if the responses totally don't have any relation to the topic and content. Happy posting

Yes, I've seen this quite a bit on myLot, and as most of the responses here said...it's just to get paid, and they do not read the entire discussion. Sometimes you'll see me put this "" and that's all under their response because I have no idea what the heck they're talking about. I know I have went off the beaten track and added more than what the discussion wanted, haha, and it had nothing to do with the discussion. It was just something that popped into my head at the time that "related" to the discussion one way or the other. I hope that makes sense to you, lol! But, all in all, I do read the discussions before I answer....I don't see what sense it would make not to.

I will then usually leave a response like "I didn't quite understand that" or "you seem to have missed the point" or some such thing.

I do read the entire topic, as if I didn't I couldn't respond properly, and we should always respond with a response that matches the topic posted. i think that some will just post anything in order to get paid, but they don't realize that they do need to stick with the topic, as that is the right thing to do. I have seen some responses too, that didn't match the topic, and you ar right. that it is hard to comment back on those, because you really don't have anything to say. Take care, and have a very good day.

I always try to read the whole topic before responding,but sometimes missed the point. That is why I tried my best to respond to topic/s that I can only (easily) relate with to avoid issues. But with close friends/encounters- I prefer to post some funny comments far from the main subject (to have fun)

Yes i read the topic ,try to understand it and then try to answer it in best way possible.I have responded once in your topic ,i think it as about best responses,and i tried to give a detailed and simplified reply.Now about your point that we need substance to discuss about ,that happens because of multiple factors.Some people will respond just for the sake of it,and you don't have much to write about that.Some people will read the topic properly and will respond in best way possible,you find it good enough but since they have already covered most of points, again you don't have a lot to write in response.So the only way to make it more interesting is that to add new ideas or to disagree,but that depends which issue we are discussing about.

Ive never really noticed that. I just notice some get off the subject sometimes. Not a big deal to me here.

Hi allknowing I really do try to comment on the topic itself and I do try to read what it is about, it could be frustrating if someone does go off topic and the person is left just shaking their head wondering what the heck they are talking about I am glad you have started this perhaps it will help people to understand that we are looking for answers or help in some way and to try and give our best responses.

i read whole discussion carefully before responding. even i try my best to read responses to get conclusion.

I always read the description of the topic before I respond because I feel I wouldn't be able to understand the topic properly if I didn't read the details of the description. In my own discussions I have seen people who misunderstood the topic. Sometimes it seems obvious that they have only read the headline. I remember one discussion that I started. The word that I used in the headline had more than one meaning, but if you read the description I think that it was easy to figure out how you had to interpret the headline. Most of the people who responded understood what I meant, but a few people missunderstood the topic, and I think that they only read the headline.

It is for the Starter of the Discussion (OP) to determine if my response was after reading the content or not. Though I have seen many times such a thing happening that some lotters respond just based on the headline and not the content, I try to respond to the content that was posted. But... there are times still when I dont have anything to discuss on the topic just as I have no knowledge or idea, but the OP is a friend who surfaced after a while and I think my presence on the discussion is better. myLot is a discussion site and we need to have substance to discuss about. As for that statement, it is something which cannot be ascertained what is Substance!!! Like I see discussions like my cat pooed or my dog barked or even I fell asleep kind of discussions existing despite having any substance (at least to me). Still these kind of discussions keep filling up the Inbox always. So I have my doubts if that statement is in anyway relevant...

Hi friend, I agree with you. I also want get a good response from other mylot members, but if I cannot get it, I never mind it. I love here, because we can get fun in this site. As long as they happy here, I also happy. Have a nice day.

This is likely the result of participants trying to post as many comments as they can to get payment for posting, regardless of quality of comment. In order to do that, they need to have as many comments as possible and that means not taking the time to read or think through before they post. This is inevitable I guess so I suggest simply ignoring such posts.