should everyone post some then respond to some as a form of etiquette?

In my opinion there are enough discussions already started without the need for new ones for many weeks to come. Idon't start many at all and then respond on at least one started by allthose who respond on mine. I too have seen some users that just churn out new discussions and many times they never get back to comment - so that is not even a dicussion

Hi Ritchelle, I hope you aren't talking about me. Not that I am guilty! These past few weeks? days? months?, I haven't been performing the usual way because of the many priorities I had to pay attention to first. I do respond selectively to my created discussions and to responders whose answers/responses seem easy to answer and set aside for the meantime those whose responses seem to need more time to think up of an answer. I know I have skipped on your response because I just want to give you a quality post when I have ample time! Anyway, going back to your question, I do respond back to almost everyone (if i can) because everybody deserves to be acknowledged for their efforts. If an author don't answer back, I let them be. Why be affected? Besides my myLot life can go on without these people.

ritchelle yes we should all do that post and respond and comment on responses on our own discussions as its the polite and best thing to do.its only fair to show those who respond to us that we appreciate their taking the time to do so.

I joined myLot just not long ago, but it seems that the situation is not as what you mentioned. When I post a question, many other answered me. I also answer a number of post, too. What's more, as I know, myLot are not just pays to post question, it pays to response too. So, no matter in the view of our own interest, or the interest of myLot as a whole, there should be quite a number of people responding to different question.