What do you do if an old discussion crops up?
By reinydawn
@reinydawn (11642)
United States
July 22, 2008 12:57pm CST
I just saw an interesting discussion from one of my friends that was 8 months old. Now, I'm pretty sure I would have found this discussion interesting 8 months ago and commented on it. There's over 8 pages of responses and I don't really want to go through each page to see if I already responded to this discussion.
What do you do?
Look to see if you've already responded?
Respond now, regardless of if you already responded?
Ignore the discussion and not take a chance on responding twice?
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4 responses
@minnie_98214 (10557)
• United States
22 Jul 08
I have seen many of my old discussions making a come back lately must just be nothing good to respond to out there lately. Me i would just respond and not worry about if they have eight pages of responses chances are they wont remeber if you posted already anyways. plus things change and well your answer may have changed.
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@reinydawn (11642)
• United States
22 Jul 08
Yeah, that would worry me that the first time maybe I had a positive response and the second time I had a negative response. It would be like "Who are you really?"
I did check on this one and I was safe :)
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@reinydawn (11642)
• United States
23 Jul 08
Yup Grandpa Bob, that's what someone else said, GREAT idea!!!
@webeishere (36313)
• United States
22 Jul 08
Do as a lot of members do Minnie, after responding rate the discussion then you'll see it's been rated if you go back. then you know you've responded already earlier. Hee hee!
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM DADDY !!~
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@darksorrow (4666)
• Bangladesh
22 Jul 08
I would respond to that discussion. Even if i have already responded to that discussion earlier & still find it interesting then without finding whether i have responded or not, i will straight respond.
@reinydawn (11642)
• United States
22 Jul 08
I've done that before then realized while I was looking through it that I already responded. I did check this one out and I had missed it way back when.
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@KrauseHome (36445)
• United States
24 Jul 08
Well, I know I have been in the same boat before on here as well. There has even been times that I have gone in to respond to that discussion to find out I have already responded in there as well. What I have been doing for quite a while though is when I respond back to a discussion, I remember to Rate it as I get ready to respond to it. That way it will already say already Rated, so I know I have already responded to that discussion, to where I never respond back to it again. Just a thought and suggestion for you to consider from now on as well.
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@reinydawn (11642)
• United States
24 Jul 08
Others have suggested that also, I never even thought if it. I usually do rate a discussion, but an old one I might not have. It's definitely a habit I'm working on.
@webeishere (36313)
• United States
22 Jul 08
I love seeing older discussions pop up actually. I have had a few of mine show up recently getting responses as well. makes me think back to when I was a newbie of sorts seeing them actually. I always rate each discussion as I respond to it. So if I go back to an older discussion I will know that if it has been rated already then I had responded to it previously. Easy as pie doing it that way.
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~
@reinydawn (11642)
• United States
23 Jul 08
I never even thought of that - although I try to rate all the discussions I reply to. I'll remember that one from now on - but the old ones might still cause me some problems.
