Discussion and responses, your opinion please?
By dragonstar1
@dragonstar1 (330)
September 4, 2008 6:48am CST
Hi there
When I spend time responding to discussions, initially all I would do is read the start and respond to this.
I then thought hold on, there's loads of responses from others, I may well learn something if I read them. I've found some excellent things and wonder what I missed when I started. Therefore if I come across someones comment that is interesting within the discussion I now respond to it also, and it starts to create a thread an exchange. This is wonderful to bring banter rather than just responses to the original discussion. But often people do not come back to respond further.
I believe when I look through that most people do as I did initially and respond to the original discussion without reading others responses, this is purely because it generally seems the only person to respond to comments is the person that started the discussion.
I find that instead of starting irrelevant discussions or responding mechanically to any discussions, it allows me to research and gain ideas from others. Its a chance to build further on something rather than to keep going off at tangents (something I can b very good at).
Do you think we should spend more time reading and aborbing what others have to say or just to keep plugging away at times sometimes what seems like just for the sake of it?
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4 responses
@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
4 Sep 08
I definitely think it would be great if everyone could read the entire discussion. I enjoy reading others' responses but in my email it doesn't provide the link to the whole discussion, just the beginning. I have to go to the person's profile to get the whole thing. And with 50+ emails from this place a day plus my writing, I'm pressed for time.
I like reading others' opinions and ideas. I can only do so after I make a reply, though, and with other discussions waiting in line I usually don't have time. This is a great place to learn and share!
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@dragonstar1 (330)
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5 Sep 08
Wow, you are active on here for sure.
Must definitely have a good look at your discussions and spend some time responding to them.
Keep it up, and look forward to hearing more from you.
@ZephyrSun (7381)
• United States
4 Sep 08
I like to read the discussion as well as the responses, but sometimes depending on the discussion I am busy reading and sometimes adding to comments that I forget to post to the discussion. I often see responses on my discussions that makes me wonder if anyone read past the title, and that really annoys me. I have to admit though that I am bad about going back and responding it usually takes me a few days to get back to it.
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@dragonstar1 (330)
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5 Sep 08
I know the feeling, I often forget what I was going to post because I've spent time replying to others.
I've noticed on occasion I have gone of at a tangent or perhaps missed the point.
Do please let me know if so.
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@ZephyrSun (7381)
• United States
5 Sep 08
I have done that as well. Someone may say something that gets me going and then forget exactly what the discussion was about.
@icequeen123 (934)
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8 Sep 08
I have found myself spending lots of time reading through discussions, especially the top discussions and hot topics. I sometimes find that other people share my opinion and occasionally I have been reluctant to post as I don't have anything new to say. Other times I find that I just run out of time to post, since I have spent so much time reading.
I am trying to make a habit of reading the opening comment, and the first few responses, so that I get a flavour of the discussion before adding my thoughts. I think this is the right balance for me.
@dragonstar1 (330)
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12 Sep 08
I do that also and tend to get engrossed in the new topics rather than searching to see what I am interested in.
Hope you are well icequeen
@dragonstar1 (330)
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13 Sep 08
I've been tesing keywords I'm interested in for searching on discussions recently rather than read to much of the hot or new topics. I've found much more to read, but haven't been very active at responding as I've been in France for the last week.
@manjalvaanam (272)
• India
10 Sep 08
ya your right, we should look into others responses too. I do that for discussions which have few responses.its practically not possible to read responses of discussions which has more responses...happy myloting..
@dragonstar1 (330)
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13 Sep 08
I do choose which discussions I read more on, obviously to my interest.
Believe me I have read thru 3 or 4 pages on occasions.
I hate to say it often I'll start reading and think why did someone start this, yawn etc.
But there are some really good thoughts and comment available to read, and also respond to. I find that sometime rather than just responding to the initial thread actually responding to indivduals is really quite rewarding.
But then again I do enjoy at good chat, especially when the subject matter is interesting and you have another intellegent being to respond to.
@dragonstar1 (330)
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13 Sep 08
ha ha, there's me talking of intelligence without realising I'd typo'd
