Discussions in myLot - I wish...

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Let me see... I've been in myLot for... 6 days now. Oooh! Almost a week! =D Needless to say, I am very new here. In these first 6 days, however, I quickly realized something. It seems to me, discussions in myLot are not meant to be what I first thought them to be. I was very excited at first and I thought, all I needed to do was look around me or pick something that happened to me during the day, share it, and turn it into a discussion! Neat! =) But thinking about it now, my idea might be more suited for a blog instead of here. (In fact, I'm a bit afraid to post this one for fear that it will be deemed unacceptable... =( ) I came to this realization while looking for topics I can reply to. I looked into different threads and saw some discussions/responses/comments which pointed to items in the discussion guidelines. Now, I did read the guidelines before. But at first, the only ones that stood out for me was the 'don't post jokes, recipes, etc as discussions'. This was the one item I said I should keep in mind because I might make the mistake of doing just that. =P As for the rest, they didn't stand out for me much, either because for me they were self-explanatory, or things I don't expect I'll have an issue with, or (admittedly) just some things I took for granted. Reading through the discussion guidelines again, I realized the following: (1) Topics are not meant to be repeated here. It seems it is better to have one long discussion about a particular topic, rather than many small discussions about the same topic. (For this, I have learned to use 'search', but I still cringe when I read responses saying 'I have seen similar topics such as this before'. *cringe*) I see that this has its advantages, but then another thing is... (2) One is expected to read all responses before posting one's own response. I see that this may be for the best, but sometimes there are topics that call for individual, personal responses, and maybe for those it is not imperative that one reads everything first before replying. Nevertheless, I want to follow the guidelines/rules as much as possible (besides not wanting to be called 'lazy' or anything like that... =/ ), so I've decided to limit myself for now to responding only to smaller discussions - the ones that don't have too many responses yet, so I can honestly say I have read them all. I read and respond slowly in general, so it will just take too long for me to tackle bigger discussions. (And I don't really have that much time to spend here.) The downside to this is: I have seen topics which I want to take part in, but are too long for me to handle at this time. So I thought I'd just remember them and go back to them later, read through them little by little, until such time I'm able to post a response. And then I discovered something else... Unless I have responded to a discussion, sometimes it's not that easy to find it again. I tried looking for one particular discussion using keywords in search, and at first I wasn't able to find it. Good thing I eventually remembered the title of the discussion, and when I used the complete title as my search term, that was the time I found the discussion again. I then sent a friend request to the person who started it, so that at least I'm assured I can find it again by going to her profile, in case I forget the title. So now I come to my wish. (Yes, in case I made you forget because of the sheer length of my introduction, =P in my subject I said 'I wish...'.) I wish there was some way here in myLot to bookmark particular discussions I'd like to follow. It will really help me a lot to have a place where I can keep links to the discussions I'd like to read through first before I reply to. I'm sure I can use my browser's bookmark function for this, and making a list somewhere (in a notepad file or even just writing them down on paper) can help too. But it would just be really nice if it can all be done within myLot. Next comes my question. (This is, after all, a discussion. =P Though I expect this will be my last discussion in a while. I think I will resign myself to just responding for now... if I can... anyway...) My question is: is there anything you think myLot is lacking in, and that you wish it has? Maybe some improvement or added functionality that you can think of? Thank you for reading and thank you in advance for your replies! I do hope this post is acceptable... =)