Has this ever happened to you on MyLot?

Philippines
July 14, 2008 2:44am CST
You think long and hard about a topic and post and voila. You think that you're ready to go, then you see at the bottom under similar discussions, a discussion on the same topic that you thought of, not to mention, they're both done at the same day, under the same interest and almost the same time as yours? This just happened to me and it made me cringe. I mean, I don't want people to think that I just copied off of someone else's discussion. Waah... It would be interesting though how many people will be answering to my discussion and hers... Lol.
8 responses
1337speak
@1337speak (170)
• Philippines
14 Jul 08
rosedust82, you know what I usually do? I'd check out my interest's first page for a topic, look for a pattern, and start a discussion that's entirely different. Never failed me so far ^_^
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rosedust82
@rosedust82 (2066)
• Philippines
14 Jul 08
Great! I'll try to do that as well. Thanks for the tip.
sutanhartanto
@sutanhartanto (4122)
• Indonesia
14 Jul 08
hi rosedust, yeah, that happened to me several time it is quite annoying because i thought i had star a unique and original discussions; sometimes i even thought that the discussion i started will be my masterpiece . well, what to do? at least i don't mean to copy other discussions.
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rosedust82
@rosedust82 (2066)
• Philippines
14 Jul 08
Yeah, I know how you feel. Hehe.
Stephannie
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
14 Jul 08
I have done the very same thing. I never copy off of anyone else either. I make my discussion uniques and it is not totally like someone elses. Alot of people still answer my discussion like it was the first one like it they had ever seen. Alot of people do not get to see the other discussions that were posted anyway because there are so many each day.
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koharukusumi
@koharukusumi (1539)
• Malaysia
14 Jul 08
Hey there rosedust2, I never had that experience since I start a discussion WITHOUT checking whether there are other similiar discussion. I also try my best not to ask a general question and even if it has been discussed before, I try to put my story as to what led me to asking the question so that people can differentiate my discussion to the ones similiar to it. :D
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rosedust82
@rosedust82 (2066)
• Philippines
14 Jul 08
That's what I do. I just found it quite ironic that similar discussions were posted at almost at the same time. It was like thinking of the same thing at the exact same moment. Hehe.
wendy1980
@wendy1980 (131)
• China
14 Jul 08
I don't know if it ever happend to me,I never check it,I just post when I thought of an idea.
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pkraj111
@pkraj111 (2458)
• India
14 Jul 08
It always happens to me and I am not worried about it because we cannot check each and every discusion posted by every other member.
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rosedust82
@rosedust82 (2066)
• Philippines
14 Jul 08
True! Thanks for posting your thoughts.
rajikoshy
@rajikoshy (741)
• India
14 Jul 08
i dont check i ask what comes to my mind
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lynnchua
@lynnchua (3412)
• Singapore
14 Jul 08
That happaneded to me too. Think of a topic and posted, then I saw similar topic at the bottom but I'm not worrying about it because I can't check all the post before posting.
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