Do you avoid replying to discussions to keep your posts higher on the page?

I have never thought of such thing and even after knowing it from you I will never do such things.Infact I have never cared for how much responses the discussions started by me are getting but I sometimes wonder how quite ordinary discussions soon started getting so many responses.

I have never done this at all. This is one strategy which never crossed my mind at all. Perhaps there are only a few of you who are doing this here in mylot. In fact, I believe that you are the first one here who has brought up this subject.

I have never thought of in this way, maybe because I was never very much thinking about the top discussions and posts. More importantly, I post topics very rarely, I find it more easier to respond to others' discussions, but there is nothing bad in it.

Well, i usually do not start a topic that someone else has.. That is if i know of it... Im not sure what i would do if i see that someone else has or had created a discussion that is the same or similar to mine.. In tht case perhaps i would post something depending on the discussion going on there. Though usually what happens is that i would already have written down my mind on one discussion and feel it would be pointless to go to each and every discussion to post the same thing everywhere. Nonetheless i dont think what you are doing can be called cheap or mean.. tht would be a bit too harsh. And the fact that you are admitting it is a proof enough that your thinking isnt exactly "bad".

Eh, I don't think it's really that mean. I don't think it really suits me, since I still get responses to things and it still increases your number post number to respond to other people's stuff. There's also a chance of them rating your comment high or giving you a best response, and I'm sure that's probably worth something.