Do you read the responses on the discussion before you respond?

It depends on the discussion. If someone is asking how to do something, I read the responses to see if anyone already answered the question. If everything I was going to say has already been said, then I move onto another discussion. If part of what I was going to say had already been covered, then I respond with everything else I was going to say that wasn't already covered. And of course, if no one has said anything I was going to say, then I respond as if I hadn't read any of the other responses. However, if the discussion is like this one and is just asking for opinions or personal thoughts on a matter, then I respond without reading the other responses. After I've posted my response, then I go and read some of the responses. But I usually respond first.

Sometimes I will read the first two responses, other times I will just respond myself. I rarely respond to other peoples response unless it is a discussion that I have started. I will respond to there response if I find something really interesting or want to answer something myself.

I usually respond to discussions straight from email and don't read before I respond! I like to answer with my views and opinions and then read other peoples responses and maybe even chat with them! xxxx

Yes always. I get the notifiers in my email and I can't see the responses so it's a long trip to reach the discussion before responding but I've put up with it for so long now that it doesn't matter I read them all and comment on some too, even before the OP has a chance if I am there first. I barge in Then I respond. If we got paid for reading wouldn't that be luverly too!

Okay Okay, I'll bite! I don't! I try to atleast skim now because I always have a feeling that I've responded to the discussion, probably because the discussions are mostly months old or I've read the title a million times! I know I'm bad, I need to start reading the responses!

i respond right from the email notify so it doesnt give you a chance but if i go through the long way to where i can read them all i wouldnt ever be able to answer anyone because it would take too long

I usually don't unless it's a topic that I'm really itnerested in. If it's something I know a lot about or something that someone is saying that I agree with, then sometimes I read what other people say to see how everyone else is taking what was said. Sometimes I'll even add things but otherwise I usually don't.

Sometimes I do but usually I just browse over the responses before posting my own response.

Usually, I just read the discussion before I respond. I like to know what is being said before I post to responses that are already posted.

yes,i always usually do.i read the responses on the discussion before i respond,i see what others say and what they are thinking.but sometime,when i have no enough time for read full responses,i always respond my idea........even i know read full responses is better......happy mylotting and have good day.

Hi TLchimes, Yes I'm read the responses before i respond.because some discussions i don't understand on that time i read others responses,then i understood the discussions.I'm only read two or three responses and i understood how to they respond and i follow their sentence formation also.but I'm write in my way.i don't copy any others responses.because I'm try to improve my sentence formation.

It really depends. Sometimes I just look at the original post so I can formulate my own response and not be influenced by what others have written before me. It's something I'm still working out on Mylot because even though the FAQ's say one shouldn't repeat, I can't help as a writer feel that it is almost unfair and impossible to meet that requirement. There are going to be people who agree on a subject, and that is "repeating" information. There are times though if there are lots of answers already that I will give a quick skim and scan to see what the general tone of the thread is, especially where politics are concerned. If I see that my idea is really on the otherside of the fence, I may tone down what I have to say, and sometimes I just don't respond to that particular thread. Sometimes when I'm reading I find that someone has already stated something I would have said, so I will state that in my response, and then try to find something else that is helpful or unique to that topic. Namaste- Anora

wow. 3 pages of responses to this discussion. I have only read the first page of responses just to see what people are saying. I don't like to repeat a response or I might say "like other people are saying" which means the starter knows I have read responses

I seldom do that.

There are a lot of times I will read some of the other responses first just to get an idea how to respond back in there, and sometimes just to make sure I am not repeating other things that have been already said in there as well. But there are times I do not read others responses until after I post back in here as well. Just depends on what I feel is Best as to the new discussion started in here.

I read responses to discussions but not all. I would like to know someone's thoughts.And it's fun to read others opinion, I can learn many things. I also comment on responses if I happen to have interest in.

If it's an opinion based discussion, like this one, I read a few and see what other people think then I post my own response. If it's an informational discussion, like the half a dozen people asking when the Oscars will air or the 100 people asking when the next Harry Potter is to be released, I see if the question has been answered and if it has I move on. If not, I answer it. This is something that really bugs me.... I was crusing through the movies discussions and saw that someone was worried they had missed the Oscars. So I brought it up to see if the question had been answered and it had.... four times. And they weren't even like five or ten minutes apart to where it could be understandable that two people were responding at the same time. There was at least an hour between each response. And the last one!!! The last response on there when I pulled it up was someone saying, six hours after the first response with the answer to the question, that they didn't know and were also hoping that they hadn't missed them...?! How hard was it to read the three responses before yours that all said February 22??? *sigh*

Some times I read all responses. This is to know how other users are giving information. I will try to give additional information if required. I try to give my response with quality. If the topic is interesting i don't read any responses of of others. My personal thought of giving responses is to help or advice user. If all members give their opinion then we can gather lot of information from different users.

Generally i read the first page responses,and then give my own response to the discussions.But sometimes if the discussion attracts me very much,i will read it all no matter how many pages of others responses there are.One more situation is that,if the starter response my response,i will find it and read from beginning to the end

I read most all of the responses. Those with just a sentence or two, I find I just skim over. But those that took time to answer, I like to see what they had to say. I can see how different people from different countries see things differently. I get different view points. I learn. I take what I want from the responses and leave the rest behind. I read them before I respond.