We need a change on comment alerts.
By katerina
@thea09 (18305)
Greece
September 6, 2009 7:23am CST
I'm really sick of this one, start a discussion, receive response, comment, then have to trawl through the whole thing to see if other comments have appeared as we all know banter and interaction are the life and soul of a good discussion. We can spot through our started list if we're lucky that someone has been in there again, but if the last entry is a new response then we'er skuppered. This will be of no interest to those who never comment on their own discussions in the first place but for others we NEED them. Lamb and Mike and Mys have hereby made themselves availble to answer any technical aspects of this, they just don't know it yet.
Hopefully we could gather the whole discussion up and dump it on mylot admin to see a change made.
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14 responses
@mysdianait (66005)
• Italy
6 Sep 09
Wassup today Thea? 
I check out my started discussions and when I see that the last name is not mine I go and check to see who left a response or a comment. When I receive a comment on a response I left somewhere Ialso check through other comments I made tosee if they got any reaction too.
I think that's all we can do and if we received comments on comments it could be never-ending for some of us 
I check out my started discussions and when I see that the last name is not mine I go and check to see who left a response or a comment. When I receive a comment on a response I left somewhere Ialso check through other comments I made tosee if they got any reaction too.
I think that's all we can do and if we received comments on comments it could be never-ending for some of us 1 person likes this
I must update our friend 
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
6 Sep 09
Hi Mys, sorry you've been roped in my dear. But my point is if you're not the last name the last name could be someone who's left a response so then you'll never know someone has left a witty comment just waiting for a bit of banter. And if the last name there is from someone with a comment we have to go and find it whereas on the other comment alerts we can open comment only and not have to trawl. So we could have a special alert for this which you could choose to turn off.
@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
6 Sep 09
This is the only handicap I find in mylot. If a respondent comes back to counter comment on his response we will never find out if we don't check our previous discussions. I hope mylot could rectify it for the benefits of members here who are in for good interactions. Lamb,mike and Diana are the life-wire in mylot who never tire of mentoring those who are in doubts. Yes, a change is greatly needed here.
@mysdianait (66005)
• Italy
6 Sep 09
I think we would all have landed even if you hadn't called for us 
Mike is sleeping and I haven't seen Lamb yet today but no doubt they will both be here eventually.
I guess I am so used to not receiving notifiers of comments that I have got used to the situation. I can imagine that in some cases it could fill up our inbox though if there were notifiers because when several users comment on the same response it would be a continual flood 
Mike is sleeping and I haven't seen Lamb yet today but no doubt they will both be here eventually.
I guess I am so used to not receiving notifiers of comments that I have got used to the situation. I can imagine that in some cases it could fill up our inbox though if there were notifiers because when several users comment on the same response it would be a continual flood 1 person likes this
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
6 Sep 09
Hi Zandi, it's good to see that someone agrees, I really do find it time consuming to keep up but enjoy keeping up. I'm sure the above mentioned don't mind being voulunteerd in as as you say they are always around and Mys is a master of interactions. Let's hear it for rectifications.
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
6 Sep 09
gOOD MORNING Lamb, gOOD FOR YOU. I am sure it wasn't easy. Maybe u & thea can get this done. Have a good one.
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
6 Sep 09
I know exactly what u mean. i miss comments people have made to me for weeks & sometimes months when i go back to one of my discussions. I feel bad when i have done this. yassou, aunty.
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
6 Sep 09
Yassas Aunty and Lamb, just to digress Aunty that's hello to more than one person. Yassou is just for one. I do hope we get this change, you're a prime example, you comment back and I see it 12 hours later whilst if I'd seen it right away we could have had a nice chat.
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Sounds like kippers for supper 
@mysdianait (66005)
• Italy
6 Sep 09
Ah! I know nothing about the marine (except for having met a few sailors) and I am not knowledgable about Greece either 
@Xzcess (174)
• India
7 Sep 09
Hmm, this is something i would like as well. Maybe they should have some way that notifies everyone if a response gets commented and they had earlier commented on the same response ?? .. Not just in discussions you start, i mean in every discussion. How many times have you lost the opportunity to make a friend or have a decent conversation with someone just because you did not know that a someone commented on one of your response in a discussion you previously responded or commented in ??
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
7 Sep 09
Hi Xcess, I agree with you but don't think they would be able to implement it on every comment we make everywhere but certainly they could start with the way I suggested. As an example I left a response on a discussion yesterday. Whilst the person who started the discussion did not respond 3 other people responded in my box and I received alerts on those. But when I responded back to those 3 people none of them would have known through any form of alert at all.
@Xzcess (174)
• India
7 Sep 09
Yeah, I know it would be hard to implement such a thing, but it would have been cool, maybe a special 'you got commented' box on profile or homepage ?? Anyway...
I know what you mean, I would love it if they can do something like that with the comments. Maybe what i thought of is hard to implement but that which you suggested seems doable. Maybe we should play loud music to get their attention here so that they start thinking about it (:
@dbutheking (2347)
• India
6 Sep 09
I mostly don't check up on the alerts. I will check the started list and see if the last response was me. If not i will see the discussion for commenting. I will see my email only to see whether i received any comments for my responses in the other's discussions. I see only once before i enter the myLot and if i can comment back to them. Then i will comment on all my responses and then responded some friend discussions and see the no responses tab if something interest me.
I mostly keep my responses last. Sometimes in the middle if i need some change during my commenting..
Have a great day.
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
6 Sep 09
Hi dbu, but the whole point is you can't check your alerts for comments because there isn't one. You could on a longish discusson see your started list, go in and comment to the last name on the end, then your name would be the last name, and be none the wiser that someone else commented before the person you just commented back to. So you can't check it because we don't have the facility. And I want that facility so basically if it was optionally there to be had would you want it?
@dbutheking (2347)
• India
7 Sep 09
Yes, you are correct. For a long discussion we need to see all pages to see where the comment is in. If we have the alert we can easily find out and respond directly from the email links..
If it is available i am happy and like it..
Just like you said i received two comments alert in one of my discussion. But not after that. I guess myLot is working on this comment alert and we will heve this facility soon...
Have a great day.
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
6 Sep 09
Firstly, I must apologise for being able to keep up with the commenting as I do generally. I am traveling right now and sneaking in internet time. Hope you understand.
Coming to the discussion,I guess, people here get notifications. I do not get any but then that's an eternal gluitch that mylot is playing up with me. I have come in terms with it. Love you mylot anyway.
I go to discussions i have strated and get to know about what;s happening there. I thunk regularity here helps a lot with this kinda things.
Happy mylotting Thea! Hope you had a nice shower with all thewater on earth. 
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
7 Sep 09
Hi Mimpi, hope you are enjoying your travels and for goodness sake don't apologise for not keeping up with mylot as much. Your own situation with alerts seems to be somewhere on another planet anyway.
The humidiy and lack of water was becoming unbearable, humidity is usually only a 2 or 3 week affliction. Today we have water, both in the tap, and pouring from the grey skies, it's cooler, there's thunder, it is really strange after so long, but oh everything smells so fresh
@neildc (17238)
• Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines
7 Sep 09
Hi thea. If we start a new discussion, the only time we can be notified is when someone responded. And we can comment to each respond. But if the comment is from our comment or a comment from others response or comments in another thread, we can never get notified. This is one thing the I want changed, I guess that is the idea of this discussion of yours? And the only thing that we can do to keep one's discussion alive is what mysd had mentioned in her original respond.
But if that can be changed, it will benefit us all.
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
7 Sep 09
Hi neildc, that is exactly the idea of this discussion to raise the lack of commnet alerts so that maybe this change can be instigated. It is ironic that Mys raised the issues of comments on sorties as I never knew a thing about them which just shows this place should be issued with a site map. Even the alerts on responses can be erratic as far as an additinal comment by the respondee is concerned.
@jheLaichie (4438)
• Philippines
6 Sep 09
SKUPPERED?! and what that could be? can you teach me greek?
oh that trio are such angels. and still they didnt quite now it for a moment i guess... hhhmmmm dump the whole discussions? what could that change be my dear?! oh now i am always out of it when i came to all your discussions. but still i try to fit in.. hope i am not way too out of it...
jhelai
jhelai@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
7 Sep 09
Hi jhe, skuppered, thwarted, foiled are all excellent Greek words which are difficult to translate in meaning into English for you. Probably the equivalent English word would be stamatimenos.
As for the dear trio you refer to I don't think any of them would agree with your angelic description but they do like to drop in for witty reparatee, and Lamb certainly has some miraculous powers. I shall test them now jhe but you must not interuppt his skill by typing anything beneath my words until we see if it has worked.
Thea to Lamb, Thea calling Lamb. Please come and help jhe with her Greek.
@akuler (3531)
• Malaysia
7 Sep 09
Hi kyria thea,
There is pro and con for that. For someone who always love to come back to their discussion if someone reply on it, it would be a great help. But for those who choose not to comment on anything others have said, they might didn't like it. It would make their notification email fill every inch of there email inbox.
But I hope mylot can provide it so we know if someone comment on our comment back and we can keep the discussion alive.
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
7 Sep 09
Hello Kyrios Akuler, I probably failed to put it in the introduction but I have been saying we should have a comment alert which people can turn off like we can with other alerts if we don't want to see anything or have our emailed jammed.
I would really like to see this feature as I do like to comment back if what I hear is interesting or a nice bit of banter.
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@akuler (3531)
• Malaysia
7 Sep 09
Yeah ... they should have that feature since they want us to keep the discussion alive and everyone can involve in one tread. We didn't know if someone comment our comment unless we are the tread header. It is hard to coming back to the discussion and see nothing change there. Especially if you have an internet connection problem like me
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@sunny68 (1327)
• India
6 Sep 09
i am having a tough time understanding this one. let me try..a responders response gets a response which is not from the original responder. therefore the response to such a response will not be notified to the original responder.....?????????? please give me a break! and let me know the solution when you have it.....thanks.
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
7 Sep 09
Hi sunny, it's not as bad as you make it sound. I think I've just explained the concept more clearly down in Malpoa's box, no 15, just to take any confusion out of it, it is really very simple but much needed, and the longer you are here and build up friendships the more you will wish this feature was available.
@malpoa (1213)
• India
7 Sep 09
Hi thea,
I know how it will be like to check the responses every now and then and that to the last page. It would have been better to get the latest response on the top right? It would be easier that way...I had given my emaid id while registering with mylot and so whenver anyone comments to my response or to any discussion I started, I get alerts there...I neednt even open mylot, I can right away read it there and they give links to respond to the response in a new window...It is a lot much easier...They even send (the mylots team that is) the mylot digest of the day, top discussions, friend requets, messages received...
U try if you can include a mail id in your profile...It will make things a lot easier...
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
7 Sep 09
Hi Malpoa, I have what you describe aleady but what I am saying we need we don't have. Now you are a wonderful example of why we need them.
I post a discussion and you respond. I receive an alert. I comment back to you, you receive an alert. You comment back to me and I receive no alert so don't know you are back again.
If I then go to my started list the last name there may be that of someone who either commented or responded after you so I have no way of knowing that you made another commetnt except by going through the whole discussion.
So the alerts are not continuous on comments which is often why I don't get back to you again for several days.
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
6 Sep 09
Hi Vandana, I think this is long over due for implementation so I'm glad to see some support for it, they are hit and miss enough as it is already. I commented a few times on your Hitler one but apart from the first alert on that I didn't receive anymore even though I should have but when they are working from other discussions at the same time we just presume that nothing is happening on the other discussion.
Tags I'm afraid is not part of this one, you'll have to start your own, this is for support for comment alerts, they'll never take any notice if all the changes everyone wants are all lumped together.