Reading Other's Responses Before Responding

My responses to any of the discussions is purely individualistic . It would never be influenced by fellow Loters' opinions. I can judge and express what is good or right . I am rather proud of my caliber to think free . Sorry I'm not prudish ...but humble and of a loving disposition .

Actually this is because of the "everyone wants IN" mentality. It doesn't matter whether something already has been said. I have something to say so I can answer the discussion and get my 2 cents. That's all I need to know. :P

Regarding this issue , i think mylot can let the one who start the discussion to highlight out some key points at a small area in the discussion so that people can actually read a summary of the discussion instead of just reading the start introduction only

If I find a responder has gotten off subject, is give them aegetive For those that don't seem to understand the subject I would just ignore. I don't think that you as a discussions starter has to answer every response I thnk that you too can end up saying the same thing over for each response.

Yeah, it happens all the time. I'm sure part of it is language-barrier related, but sometimes you can tell that the responder only read the headline of the discussion. Laziness is a factor if you ask me...that and people trying to bank $5 a day for posting their behineys off.

In fact,I seldom read others responses before I make my response,because I'm afraid my opinion will be affected by others.Moreover I think the responses mainly aim at the discussion,so it's unnecessiary to read others' responses.To read is also ok and you can know much about other's opinion.

Ok i'm the type of person that will read the topic all the way through and then post what i think. I will read the responses after i type up my thoughts. If i have repeated what some one says even in a little way or in a different wording it's because of what i think and it just happens that great minds think alike. I don't want to sound selfish but this is how i feel. If i had to read all of the posts that where already written by other's then what would be the sinse of me posting any of my thoughts here on mylot? You have to remember that there are thousands of my lotters and some of us are bound to have the same thoughts on some of the subjects. It's just the way that life runs. Sorry if this is the wrong response that you where looking for but this is how i feel.

Hahahaha! Guess I'll repeat others even though I have read the responses here. I too respond from my emails to my friends discussions. So I don't see the other responses if there are any at all. This I like to do becuase then later I compare what I had to say to other responses. Just a way of testing what I have in common with non friends here of mine. Also I feel a lot of it is money involved. I respond also to make extra money. Whom doesn't. Sorry for repeating others responses. Hee hee. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~

I read some responses up to 5 but when I read them over my inbox I don´t have the chance to read other´s people posts.

By mylot terms and conditions we are actually supposed to read the other responses before responding to them. Most of us are unaware of that and i was too.Good that you brought this up cuz it made bring this to light. At first i never used to read the other responses cuz that'll save time.But these i started reading atleast a few of them so that i dont have to cause redundancy in responses.

The same thing has happened to me a few times too. Mostly it seems to happen from the ones that don't comprehend what the original discussion was about, or speak english well enough to say what they really mean. I've got a few responses that are so "out there" that it makes you wonder if they made a mistake and replied to the wrong one.

yeah i do, sometimes y do that bcoz soem times teh discussions description is not too elaborative s i need to get an idea of it!!

I'm guilty of not always reading all the responses to a discussion, but it's usually only when the discussion is many pages long. If there's only a few reponses or a couple of pages, I'll read the whole thing before responding. I've only started 3 responses so far so I haven't had to repeat things yet but I can understand how that would be frustrating. I'm still learning the ropes here so I'm glad you posted this; it sure has made me think about what I'm doing!

to me, i have no problem if my respond message message will be copid by another.

This can happen more often. I too don't read the previous post, all I do is think of the main discussion posted and then arrive with an answer then post. For me if I read the posts, its like I am copying or comparing my answers to others. As much as possible I would love not to be influenced by the responses of others. That's why I don't read other's response until I posted mine.