Do you expect a certain minimum number or replies for the discussion u start?
By er_gagandeep
@er_gagandeep (261)
India
May 22, 2007 3:47pm CST
hi friends
Most of us all start atleast one discussion per day and we whatever discussion we may start or how well we have written we expect to get as many responses and the most attention of the mylotters .
a)Anyway what is the minimum number of replies you expect after starting a new discussion .
b)Does your frinds replies to ur discussions always immaterail of wat discussion topic u start .
c) Whenever i start a new discussion i wish that some of my discussion just appears in "today hot discussion category " but .....uptill now did nt get any
So friends do u make some prehand calculation that u must get atleast this no of replies for this discussion .How does that vary on the topic of discussion as i have found for general easy discussion people reply more as compared to others
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16 responses
@unishwetabh (1031)
• India
24 May 07
I never got replies more than 12. Thats my best. And in the rest of the topics its only about 7 or 8 or even 0...lol...but i dont care about the topics i start but i concentrate more upon replying. I think that once i get some good number of replies and have some nice friends here on mylot then they all would definitely reply to my topic.
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@wahmoftwo (1296)
• United States
23 May 07
I haven't been getting many responses to my discussions lately. I'm not sure why. I used to usually get at least ten responses. Now I'm lucky to get five. Who knows.
@er_gagandeep (261)
• India
23 May 07
that really sad that now you getting less responses .What i think is that as u get older and expand ur friend circle here on mylot u have better chances or getting more replies .
@DocterDew (902)
• United States
22 May 07
Good question. Usually when thinking of topics I believe the topic I post will get a lot of attention otherwise I tend not to post it. I would rather find one or two good discussions to put up intead of many not so hot ones, in order to keep my rank high, and not to spam up the boards. The answer though is yes, I usualy think I will get a lot of posts when I post them.
@er_gagandeep (261)
• India
22 May 07
hmmm.. wat shld is say .See my friend that wat i have found is that the number of responses you get is actaully also dependent on many others factors .Suppose you start a very good discussion (atleast from your side )which is actually for very specific category of people as Electronics Technology .It is gud for you and other like minded person but for other it actually carries no meaning or is just out of their bounds .Under such cases one shld be prepared before hand to not get gud no of responses .Whereas in general or more popular categories like mylot, earning money , understanding people there are lot number of users so u have better chances of getting replies.
Anyway it good that yo dont want to spam boards .
@magicalmerlin (1623)
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23 May 07
When I start a discussion I always think it is the bee's knees and that everybody will flood to respond. So far I have always been sorely disappointed. I think one got about 18 replies but about half had none. I have tried different categories, styles, making friends, replying to loads of different people, the only thing I can't really change is the time of day. I thought with 90,000 members someone would respond but mine tend to get lost amongst the others. I have decided to spend most time replying - it is a lot quicker than starting anyway and it is fun getting 'best response' (they are growing steadily and are always exciting to receive).
Best of luck for your discussions.
@er_gagandeep (261)
• India
23 May 07
ok so u choose the other way around .Anyway thx for ur compliment .
best of luck from my side also that you get hundred's of replies to ur next discussion
@ibsnet (1268)
• India
23 May 07
That's very interesting thing to discuss. Sometimes I start a discussion of which I haven't expected that there may be so much response and sometimes the opposite happens where I thought huge response to come I found only a few.
Not all but some of my mylot friends answer to my discussion and I also do their's but it is not always possible for me to look after all member's running discussion.
@er_gagandeep (261)
• India
23 May 07
ya that is always the case for most of us .It would we wrong if we try to actually form any kind of mathematical model for such thing .It is totally fuzzy in nature .
@devrajrao (167)
• India
23 May 07
On the my first day on mylot.com i posted around 6 discussions. and i got better responce next day i start one but there was no responce next day i posted one more and there was only one reply.i dont know why ?
but still hoping for better.i use to do responce of my friends discussions. but i dont think they are doing same.
i think there sholu be 10 or more responce for any discssion. In my first day my one discussion was in today hot discussion category.
@er_gagandeep (261)
• India
23 May 07
oh thata really good .Ur discussion on the very 1st day got into the todays hot topic category
@danishcanadian (28953)
• Canada
22 May 07
I don't expect anything. If I want something on MyLot it's up to me to do it. I set goals for how many posts I want to reply to in one day, and how many images I wish to publish, but I don't have any expectations of how many responses I'll get form my discussions. I just put the topics out there and see what happens. I do my part, and leave the rest up to the community.
@er_gagandeep (261)
• India
22 May 07
no my friend u shld expect atleast some thing .After all you have started discssion .I am anxious to see wat other people think abt the topic of discussion .No doubt it is hands of mylot community to respond or not but it is you and me who initiates them to respond by having gud topic of discussion where in ppl can post their views freely
@ESKARENA1 (18261)
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22 May 07
i never seem to do that well with my discussions anything from 4 or 5 up to 20 is typical. Yet I see some people getting over 100 responses just cant imagine how they do it. Actually if i get 1 reply im quite happy
blessed be
@er_gagandeep (261)
• India
22 May 07
ya very true that some people really get responses to all of their discussion in excess of 100.But that can be becoz of number of factors .How old they are ?
what kinda of discussion they start ?
Also one must accept that people have formed groups sort of things like u reply to mine and i reply to
yours .Anyway you seems to be happy to get atleast one reply so that your discussion get credited to to you and you will recieve cents for that :) .
@iinvention (646)
• India
23 May 07
I dont expect any minimum number of replies for my discussion topic. Some people may be interested in the topic and some may not be. Some people might have come across such situations corresponding to the topic and they may want to share their experience and ideas with others. But others, even though, they might have come across such situations, they may not be ready to share their experience. I will be happy, even if i get one response to my topic
@onabreak2 (1161)
• United States
23 May 07
There is a saying, Expect nothing and you will not be disappointed. This is what I expect from My Lot.
@RogerTheRabbit (1271)
• Portugal
23 May 07
I don't have any expectations about the number of replies I get in discussions. Off course I always want to have the maximum number of replies in my discussions, but most of the times this doesn't happens.
Some friends reply to my discussions, others not, so I think they only reply when they think they have something to add to the discussion.
@cyclops_online2004 (779)
• India
23 May 07
Earlier when i started a discussion i used to expect a number of replies for my discussion. But, i never used to get that much. So, now i have stopped expecing and just start a discussion on whatever i feel like asking from the people of mylot. It has happened to me a lot of time that the discussion i expect to get a good reply goes unnoticed and the ones i start just for fun. They get a fairly good response as compared to my previous ones.
@Aphroditei_5279 (2465)
• Philippines
23 May 07
Hi my friend! Well, I can't start even one discussion per day, because I'm quite busy with my daughter especially with school enrollment nowadays.
And regarding your query, I do expect to have a minimum number of response. And it is at least one.~lol That's my expected minimum so far. And I also try my best to reply to others, especially to my friends who had no responses on some of her/his discussions. Because I would feel bad, if I don't have at least one.
And by the way, your discussions are always in the "top discussions", just like this one.
Keep on posting! Keep up the good work! Thumbs up! (^^,)
@sidbanerjee (125)
• India
23 May 07
Some of the discussions I start are really specific queries and are not targeted at the general Mylotter. I am quite satisfied if I receive one or two quality answers for them . However, when I do post some good discussions targeting the general populace and expecting a lot of responses, I generally get dissapointed as I hardly receive many responses. I have also analysed the reason for this in one of my other posts titled "Everybody is so busy starting discussions". You can check it out for an analysis of why we may not get many responses.
