Does it bug you when you answer a Q?...?

Question

...as best as you can without reading the other ones first, only to realize someone right before you made the exact or very similar point and you look like a copycat with no inspiration!!!?

It happens to me sometimes and I really get upset at the moment I see it...So now, I have to take a quick look, but without really reading them so I can keep my originality but without having the same one as others...Oh well :~)

Answer 1

Yes. Sometimes I get excited and answer the question first and then go and read other answers and find someone has said something similar. But usually I scan the other answers and if others have said the same things I wanted to say then I don't usually answer or will try to think of something else to say. It bugs me in the sense that I don't copy other people and don't want people to think I do. After I read the question I always know the gist of what I want to say and then I hit "answer this question".

Answer 2

That happens to me quite a bit. Because, I don't read other people's responses. I usually select only interesting and intelligent questions to answer. And most of the time, I'm the very first one to answer to a new one. But when I go to post, somebody almost always beat me to it. So the originality of my answer becomes compromised. Especially if you are about the 5th or 7th answerer.

And I try to give the most direct, honest and well researched and logical answer. However, what irks me the most is that the asker doesn't bother to choose the best answer. And if they do; they usually based it on humor . All my best efforts down the drain! The best answer should be chosen based on its merits.

Interesting question and legitimate beef.

Answer 3

Nope. You gotta believe that your answer is better than the persons above. If youre answering the questions to get best answer then you have to make sure that if youre going to say the same thing as someone else, you have to go the extra mile and saying something better or give more specific information. I just like helping people though, it doesnt really bother me much at all.

Answer 4

It happens often. As I write this someone is probably writing the same thing. And they will post their answer just before I post mine...oh well...It just becomes another 2 points, instead of a good answer.

Answer 5

nicely Im a non smoker, even nevertheless it does not somewhat concern me if human beings smoke. I recommend i'm not likely around many human beings who smoke, so i think i don't might desire to positioned up with as much as a pair human beings might desire to. yet i think of there is adequate available, for individuals to of course get the message on what smoking does to their bodies. And in the event that they are actually not grateful adequate for the present of existence or to shelter their very own physique, then for all I care, enable them to smoke. we are an overpopulated planet besides :

Answer 6

Sometimes... the same goes with when I ask a question and matches shows up, so most of the time I don't bother posting them anymore.

Answer 7

Not really. But it does bug me when I take the time to think and write a good answer, and the asker votes some moron's answer "best answer" for some reason I can't fathom.

Answer 8

Yes, and I have had the sad experience of passing on a question because someone beat me to the answer I had in mind.
Ah, well....

Answer 9

Yes, it's happened to me a couple of times.....I still don't read the other answers first, though.

Answer 10

No, it does not upset me, I only answer how I feel and if someone else beats me to it then I just say oh well. No big deal. =)