Do You Reward All The People Who Post Back In Your Discussions?

I think this is a good practice. To respond to people who respond to you. All the time everything mabe no. But in genral. What I think are funny but have to give them credit. Is the people whos english isnt very good and they post a post in bad english then all they can respond with afterwards is thanks for the response only cuase they cant read you response. hehehe Happy loting your lot! :)

When I start a discussion, I will go and comment on some of the ones who respond to me. I do not exactly reward them. I just respond to their responses and rate them, most positive. I figure that way I can explain what I was talking about or maybe answer a question they asked, or added more details. Oh I am not trying to be a nice person or show that I am a contortionist and can pat myself on the back or that we all should comment on the responses (some of them it is difficult to and some will show how mundane we write) nor do I think it is a duty. It is just well normal for me and if someone wants to keep it going, all right. Unfortunately it is usually the ones who really hate my point of view who do this and thereby I just let them rant.

I like to respond accordingly to each response I get for my discussions and I always rate them positivly or if I'm not too happy with a response I would just leave it and not rate at all, but usually it is always positive... I like you do try to go and respond to their discussion for doing so to one of mine as I just did with you now lol weird... It does help others and your self so all the more beneifitial...

I don't always have the time, just like I don't have the time to respond to everyone else's discussions. I do what I can in the order that I receive it, and I try to continue to stay as up to date with my friends as I have the time to do. I think we all do our best on here.

As I do not start many discussions here it is not a real issue for me at this present time. Mostly the reason I do not start discussions is because there are often times when I do not get online for days or even weeks or months, due to driving a truck interstate as well as working on our small organic farm when I am at home. I would not like to start a discussion and then not be able to get back to read the responses or make a comment on them for a long time ... that seems a bit rude and ignorant to me. So until my situation changes I am content to respond to the discussions started by others. Your idea of responding to discussions started by those who respond to yours has a lot of merit and increases the topics which are available for you to more than those your friends have started. No doubt it does take longer but it also encourages more members to respond to your discussions in the future. It can be a bit of an eye-opener sometimes to see the number of people who do start discussions and that is the end of it for them. Maybe they do go back and read the responses they receive but they do not make a comment. Thanks for telling us how you do things and I wil keep it in mind if/when the day comes that I am in a position to start some more discussions.

as a new user of my lot, i try so hard to respond to everyone especially if i was the one who started the discussion. its really nice to hear from the experiences of everyone here and through this i learn a lot from them.

What I do is before posting a new discussion or intend to comment on others discussion, I do check my discussions and try to respond on those who made a comment. If I would not be able to respond because I had nothing to respond than just saying thank you, I will see to it that I would rate them. Rating them is the least thing I can do and hope they appreciate that. I do not choose whom to rate anyway. As long as you made a comment, you will have a rate from me...

When I do start a new discussion, I try my best to comment on every person who responds. Sometimes I am at a loss for words, either because the response was short, or very similar to another given. I'm not one to just put a thank you. Then, I will rate everyone who responds positive. Just about everyone I come across on MyLot gets a positive rating from me, unless they are blatantly violating the TOS in one way or another. I usually don't go back through other's discussions to respond to them, but this seems like a good idea. Unfortunately it will have to wait until I get through this backlog of discussions in my e-mail. *Sigh* 1110 to go.

Yes I do that when I think that person pose an interesting response to my post. It keeps the discussion going and it should be the way to bring out the real meaning of the topic. There should be continuity. I don't know how to reward but I will respond to anyone regardless whether they are in or out of my friend's list.

Hi KrauseHome! I'm a little of both but more on the "respond and rate" part. Every time I do so I just keep in mind that what I'm doing is the same thing that I "want" or at least hope others to do the same to me. Something like give and take. But if it's not then it's cool, at least I know I did my part in the myLot community.

Hello KrauseHome, Whenever I start a discussion, I always visit it, respond to some comments I have something to respond and give a positive rating on each of the replies. I also notice the members who use to reply on topics I started and visited their profile, read their discussions and post a reply whenever I got interested in those discussions they started or whenever I have something to share. I think, giving them a rating would be a best reward, because I cannot guaranty I can respond to their discussions. What if their discussions are those about I have no knowledge about, I don't know how to respond to, do I need to force myself to respond to it, just because they respond of every discussion I post? Happy mylotting.

I do try to go back and make any comments on what people have said to my discussions, but sometimes if you have many discussions on the go or you are so busy answering other people's discussions it is very easy to forget to do this sometimes. But it is good to go back and answer things that you can answer, you can't always add a comment to everybody because sometimes they don't always need a comment

I use to check at my discussions and learn what others have responded.Till now I haven't given much importance.From What you say,I think I shall go for responding them in future.THANKS!

When I was new to this site, I did not comment on the responses posted on my discussions or as you said I did not go back to my started discussions. But, only after 5 days & thanks to ronreyes, I started commenting on the responses on my discussions & starting responding mostly to my friend's discussions. The postive side I saw with this is that my earnings shot up.

Nowadays I involuntarily rate all the responses I get to my discussions.All are positive only.

Going back to the discussion gives me a chance to see what other people are like. I usually go back and respond, then give a +, then if someone really interests me, I will go check their profile out. I may go to some of their old discussions and read and rate and respond. I guess you would say that I do reward people who post back in my discussions.