When answering a discussion, do you look to see how long ago it was posted?

Hi Ambie, lol I mostly notice once I have hit submit and its on the add tags page. lol Its too late then!! I wouldnt mind if my post got commented on 6 months down the road or more. If I have something to say on the subject, then I will more and likely post a comment no matter what. :) Bay xx

Yes, I do check a discussion on how long it has been posted. For one, because responding to a discussion that has been posted for a long time may be irrelevant now. Two, because my memory is not that sharp, there is a chance that I have already responded to the same discussion. So before answering a discussion, I really check to see how long it has been posted.

Yes I do check to see how old a discussion is. I also check to see if that person comments on their discussions and when they were last here. I like to get feed back and if the person starting a discussion hasn't been on for a few weeks I know i won't get any feed back. Those I tend to not respond to.

sometimes! sometimes i forget to look and end up answering the same one that i did about 4 months ago! lol! it pays to look!

not really, if it interests me i'll answer first before i look at the date or something.

nope, i dont look at the date. i just browse discussions and then i answer what i feel like answering or those where i think my opinion counts. for me it doesnt matter how long it has been posted. what matters is that, the one who posted the discussions was able to read my response.

I do tend to look. I find it far less useful to respond to a discussion if it was started months ago. Usually it has been resolved by then, & the person who initiated it is not so interested in replying. Also, the discussion may have been a particular query, which may have a;lready been solved.

i look to see how long ago it was posted, but if its something really interesting to me, or i know ive got some good input, ill go ahead and respond.

yeah... i always check when it was posted.. so i am aware if how long it was posted...

I do most of the time, but sometimes I forget to look, and I find that the discussion is months old. Sometimes if I notice an old discussion that I would have replied to, and it already has a lot of responses, I won't bother to reply because I don't feel I can add anything new.

I don't pay attention to when the discussion was posted. I just care about whether I can share my point of views to it.

yes sometimes it affects the way i respond or if i will respond at all. sometimes i see very good topic with very good respondents to it but when im about to respond to it the date to makes me hesitant to reply. sometimes i do reply to that topic sometimes i just dont because i feel the one who made the topic will even care to read it or just ignore it and just keep busy with more fresher topics he had created.

Nope, i don't see how long it is posted already. but i am more of the topic that caught my interest and I can share my opinion better. It is not the time i am after but to the though-provoking topic which squezzes ideas out of my mind.

I am new here,I had never looked to see how long ago it was when I answering a discussion,if I like this discussion,I will answer it,no matter how old it was,because I know my answer would be seen sooner or later.

yes i always look to see how long ago the discussion was posted and how many responses has.. but if i have my own answer i don't think that it matters all those answers or the time when was the question posted!

Every time.If there is something to say,i see how long ago it was posted.If it is a normal question and started few months ago,i am sure i dont answer.But if it is informative,asking for help,i try to answer it in my view after reading responses .It doesnt matter if it has a lot of responses or few....

I do look at the dates when it was posted before. However, as I see that their has been less and less of sensible discussions here in myLot to respond to, I now consider answering discussions posted at a later but with good topic. I hope the person who started that discussion still reads it. My number criteria for answering discussions here in myLot is it must be sensible and deserves my time.

Hi ambiepam.I have this habit of always looking how long ago it was posted.It doesnt matter the number of responses,as long as it interests me thats all that matters and of course if its a friend.:)

I don't regularly check when it was posted but there are times that I became curious and checked it. So far, the oldest post that I ever responded was 8 months ago. I responded to it yesterday, I wasn't aware at first of how old it is already but it doesn't really matter to me as long as I know I have an answer to it.

It doesn't matter to me if the discussion is a week old or had a lot of responses as long as i like the topic and i feel like responding. i really love topics which are educational. :-)