***How Do You Personally Approach Discussion Creation on Mylot?***

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I don’t spend much time on Mylot anymore, and am generally here to check out what my friends are discussing and saying. Occasionally, I will stop on and navigate ‘Today’s Top Discussions”, “Recent Discussions”, or “Today’s Hot Topics”. What I have been finding is that there are many on Mylot that are clueless to what the words ‘discussion’ really means and entails. I’m sure most of you will understand what I am talking about. I am starting to see a return to the old Mylot days, where there were more threads of one-line questions. These one-line questions, more often then not, are pointless and specifically posted so that the said member can post a quantity of these meaningless questions. These members do not even take the time to at least answer their own question in the discussion they are creating, and many times they do not return to respond to members that have given a response. Again, this makes the whole point of creating that discussion—pointless. I think it is time that members learn what constitutes a quality discussion. You see thread after thread of members complaining about how they can boost their earnings, well it’s not with the one-line questions you toss out to us. So, what is a discussion? I mean really, the whole premise and beginning foundation of Mylot was to bring people together (internationally) to create meaningful quality discussions—am I right? I’d like to know from everyone what they think constitutes a quality discussion, and how do you go about creating your discussions? Do you do a little research, do you stem off of something you heard, do you copy and paste something you find online and call it good? To me, a discussion is a form of communication, where people exchange knowledge, opinions and views, and most importantly the flow of that communication must be reciprocal in nature. In other words, I cannot just offer up some question without letting other readers know my take and view or relevant knowledge with respect to that question. If we all approach discussion creation with that in mind, it would definitely help Mylot become a quality forum, which stays true to the idea of a discussion community. When I create a discussion, I usually stem off something I’ve seen, read or heard about, or I use personal knowledge from my own life experiences to draw my inspiration. When I give a response, I will only respond to a discussion I have some background knowledge in or an interest in. If not, then we have what we see quite often on Mylot: “firefox or Internet Explorer”, “Do you like ice cream after dinner”, “Do you believe in UFOs”, etc… It also is good to remind everyone that many one-liner questions do indeed fall under a Mylot rule breaker—we are not supposed to create meaningless discussions, or poll and survey like discussions. Maybe if we all refrain from responding to these types of questions, those members will catch a clue.