how do you know you write originally?
By tomer_g
@tomer_g (196)
Israel
December 31, 2006 10:16am CST
MyLot exists a pretty long time and has plenty of users. Every time I start a discussion, I see that someone has already opened a discussion about the same thing, and I get frustrated. Do you write about original things? How do you know your topic is original?
4 responses
@owlwings (43902)
• Cambridge, England
31 Dec 06
You can do a search on the keywords of your topic. Very often you can look at other discussions on the same thing and think of a new twist or angle. Don't forget, however, that creating a discussion and responding to an existing discussion earns you just about the same. If it's a discussion that hasn't been responded to for a while, responding to it brings it to the top of the pile, so it's likely that others will see it and respond to it.
@tomer_g (196)
• Israel
31 Dec 06
does a creating a discussion and responding to one earns the same? I don't think it is, no one does know how the system works. about the search, I think if we search really good we can find a post similar to every one of your ideas, but when I write a post about it I try and make it sounds like another angle.
@melanie652 (2524)
• United States
31 Jan 07
I do a search of Mylot to see if there are similar discussions to the one I'm thinking of starting. If there are 2 or 3 similar discussions, but they are old (a month or so), I'll go ahead and post it but try to do it with a different twist to it. Some of my discussions relate to something personal, such as a question I posted recently about our parakeet. Before I posted the question, I still did a search of that topic to see if anyone else had posted the same question. They had not, so I posted it.
@ESKARENA1 (18260)
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31 Dec 06
the best way to prevent this is to do a search before you start your topic then you can see if it has been done before
