Is it just me wasting my time or others too?

The following was copied and pasted from the mylot discussion guidelines: "Thank everyone that responds or comments on your discussion. This will not increase your earnings." If you just say thanks then you are wasting your time, and the other persons, but if you have a quality response then I think you should respond. I do not expect a thank you from every person I post for. I may be earning them money but I am also earning myself money. If I post a quality response then we both get our thanks when the check comes in. I do this for fun and for the 10 bucks a month, I do not consider my responses helpful most of the time, they are just me sharing my thoughts and opinions. I consider a best response every now and then, when earned thanks enough.

It is definitely nice to know that your comment is appreciated. However, I dont think it is necessary to say 'thanks for the comment' each time someone leaves a comment on your discussion. On the discussions I start, I only respond to the comments if I have something to say or add. Sometimes there is just nothing I feel the need to say, so I dont! Even if I dont respond, I will give a + rating to any good comments. I know the people who left the comment cant see that, but I feel that is more important than a 'thanks for the comment!'

Yeah I get the same thing here as well, I'll type out a lengthy response and it goes ignored. So I don't really come here that often anymore

I too like it when you get feed back from the original poster. At the same time if the discussion was really successful and they have 150 people respond to it, I understand that it can be hard to get back to all of those people. I try to keep an open mind, but if it's feasible, I think the poster should respond.

I sometimes feel like you do. I don't feel like people show gratitude for my answers sometimes. I try to help people out when I can. I remember when I was here before as a member. I had some great friends. They would respond to every post I did. So in return I did the same. I will look for your post more often and try to help you out. Thanks for letting me vent. Have a great day!! Happy MyLotting!!

I can definitely see where you are coming from. It does feel good to be appreciated. But perhaps the appreciation is an unspoken, untyped word. However, it is possible to respond to a response someone made that you feel has helped you out, by not only thanking them, but also adding something else. It doesn't take much to do that. I can certainly do that. In fact, they call that "bulls***" writing in college. You don't necessarily have to just write crap, but you can write stuff that does pertain to the topic. - There's my point on both perspectives on this.

Well i think this world is really lacking of manners already yea .

Hi, diamania i understand how you feel, i always reply to my responses with comment and thank them for supporting my discussion, it is my way of showing my appreciation of their supports, and their times. It doesn't matter to me whether my reply earn me penny or dime, i believe it is a common courtesy to do that. It is very discouraging when you spend much time to respond n helping people out, then they just ignore you with no reply, for me it is called 'rude'. , so i try to stop wasting my time on these people.

Hi diamania, I am very particular about answering all the comments made by members on one of my discussions. I feel that it is required of me. I can understand how you feel about it...But there are some who don't bother about it, so each member and their reactions are different..

I truely understand how you feel about it. When we do not get a respond for the comment we have typed in we would feel that the comment was not attended and read. We sometimes write things that are important and it may be based on our experience. We may be looking forward for a response however sometimes we do not get a respond. Thats not really good. Thanusha

I think some people do not really say thank you because it is in the mylot rules that you shouldn't thank every person who responds to your discussion. It's especially hard to reply to all who answered if your discussion generates so many responses.

This happens to me quite a lot. If you help someone and they dont say "thank you" its like helping someone for no reason. So next time you help someone and they dont say "thank you", say "Your welcome!" and that will make then say thank you and then you can feel good inside :D

I always say “think you?thinks ..” etc.if someone spend time to help me,of course,someone didn't say anything when I help them,but I didn't care?

I am new here but I guess this happens everywhere! I am an avid blogger and I think commenting on blogs is analogous to commenting here. Every time I comment on a person's blog, I keep waiting for the person to say a mere thank you! What would a simple "Thank You" note cost these people? ;)

I help and several of my friends help out too. We even lose our posts by doing so becuase we help out on repeated topics. Sometimes we get thanks from those who posted the question and other times from those who read but do not respond and maybe did not even start the discussion but they learnt something too. Time is never wasted and as long as someone receives something from the help offered I am not bothered if I see a 'thanks' or not. I am happy when ALL users are having fun here

It is true there is no reply from friends......i also tried to spend more time but no response is given....................