Do you wonder what topics to bring up that will get more attention?

AP, I have found this true of my own posts. If I start a discussion that I really think would be not only be intellectual and thought provoking, but fun just to hash around the ideas, I find people steer clear of them. I think its the star rating, I myself have been victim to the not so popular opinions and taken a thrashing for it. But I would not let that happen in one of my discussions. Most of the time when I ask I truly want to see the flip side of the coin. But let me start something nonsense about make up or bodily functions and the responses are over whelming. I just keep on doing what I do regardless.

In my opinion the easiest to respond to are the ones that get the most attention, the ones that are about little events that everyone has in their life. Anything that doesn't go too deep and that everyone can relate to. Having said that, those aren't the types of topics I post. lol I pretty much talk about whatever is interesting to me or affecting me at the moment. When I first started on mylot, this didn't get me a lot of responses most of the time. But over time as I've met more and more people who think like I do, or are interested in things that I am, I've gotten more and more responses to most of my posts. I've been here since January, and now my friend network is so large that I can pretty much count on at least someone responding to each of my discussions, and I try to be the type of friend who guarantees that for others as well. I might not respond to every discussion my friends start, but if there's one that is interesting, or doesn't have any responses, I definitely will. So I think part of your problem is just that you aren't established yet, not the type of topics you start. Good luck!

It seems to me that when I post something that I think would garner a lot of attention (I recently posted a discussion asking if perhaps gas rationing would help prices) I get very few responses! Yet, I see a discussion that says, "do you like paper or platic".....with hundreds of responses. It seems that folks like the mundane, mindless discussions the best!

When I first started posting here I used to think about that a lot and tried to tailor my discussions in that way but there really doesn't seem to be anything (besides perhaps religious discussions) that get more than others. Now I just post whatever pops into my head and hope for the best,

Hi,APMorison!! I also think about this question and I have noticed that the discussion related to our daily life will get more attention.People want to share their opinions to discussions about daily life because there topics are easy to understand and nearly all of us have expereinced.the tags such as "relationship","religion","parents and kids"are popular on Mylot.com.

The light weighted topics tend to get most of the attention from what it seams, although some of the more heavier topics get a lot of attention as well. Most of those though don't have enough people capable of talking about them.