How does it make you feel to get few responses to your discussions?

Aside from the valid reasons that you have given out, it may also be due to other mylot discussions are more noticed in a particular time so when more members are active, your discussions have already been over-shadowed by other dicussions that have followed and also caught their attention. I don't get troubled about it though. I have a lot of discussion with no responses yet. Perhaps other members aren't around with the interests I am in which I could understand. As you did mentioned before, we all have a variety of interests. Maybe somebody with similar interests would get around one of my dicussions and post their response?

I generally don't get many responses, probably because I'm new and an unknown factor here. It doesn't really bother me because when I start a discussion, I want to get something off my chest and see if anyone else feels the same way. If there are no responses, that doesn't mean I'm the only one thinking in that vein, it just means that it doesn't really touch the people in the forum I posted it in--or it means there are people that don't feel comfortable replying to it. The main reason for posting anything, for me, is to purge my thoughts and passions and if people respond to it that's great. It's gratifying to get replies that agree or disagree. In the latter case, it makes for interesting discussions and opens windows in the mind that I can crawl through to other worlds. If people agree with me or not, I still get an education. So no, it doesn't really matter to my self esteem if people respond to my discussions. But it's a kick (and an education) when they do! You seem to post a lot of thought-provoking subjects. I appreciate that!

Dunno exactly if it would hurt my feelings but it would sure motivate me to delete a few pages of false friends and cultivate some new and more loyal ones. People who take but never give lose their credibility fast with me.

I guess I am easy to please. I am happy if I just get at least one response. I know that I am a little eclectic and I never know how my ideas are going to affect other people. I would never have hurt feelings if no one answered one of my Posts. Eventually someone from my friends list would, if for no other reason than to get a Best Response. Everyone knows I always give a Best Response.lol If I don't get a lot of responses I usually know why. So it would never bother me. cl:) Shalom~Salaam~Peace

I don't care how many responses I get. Typically a discussion of mine gets about 10 responses before it fizzles out and that is fine with me. I posted a discussion almost identical to a friend of mine without knowing she posted the same one. Our writing styles are very different and my title was more eye catching but she received more responses than I did. That didn't bother me either. What bothered me was one of the people commented on her discussion positively and agreed with what she said but them hours later commented on my about how crazy my opinion was and I needed to have my head examined. Sometimes people just make me shake my head and laugh.

I truly enjoy this website BECAUSE of the responses I get from people. Yes, I am very interested to see how many people have responded to my post's and if I only get a couple of responses back, well, you know, it's ok. and when I get a good amount of responses to a question I post, I must say I get very excited because I love to read them. Maybe if I were on here to make money it would matter but I'm not and it doesn't which makes it all the more better.

I don't post discussions based on how many responses I might get. I just start discussions on topics that interest me, and if I get responses that's fine. Actually, I am happy when I get even a few responses, because I know what it's like to have discussions without a single response...

I have that feeling when I was new here, in fact I was even hesitant in starting for the fear of less people would respond to it or worse, no one would. But we'll never it once we don't try it, so I just post to what my heart tells me and hope for it to turn right. What I do now is, to avoid expecting how many and if ever it would provoke members to respond at it.

I'm fairly new to MyLot.. I've only posted like 3 discussions or something low like that. I like browsing the top discussions and responding. But, on one of my discussions that I wrote I got people bashing me!! I was asking for advice and people were completely rude. It actually hurt because I needed some help and now I'm trying my best not to get into an "online battle' with someone. I'd rather they not reply at all than leave me hurtful and rude replies!

when i start a discussion i obviously check the number of responses taht i am getting. if its high, i am sure to be happy. But for most I ge very few responses and I think why it is not making people interested. But i do not start soimilar discussions again and again.

I guess it is naturally to feel sad, disappointed or unmotivated when you receive few responses to your discussions. Just take it in your stride because your topic might not have mass appeal - that is not to say bad because this place requires niche topics too. And since they are niche, it is logical that you will receive fewer responses since you only have a niche audience.

I think it's OK but somewhat disappointed. It will be joyful to receive many responses. To my surprise, sometimes very simple discussions will have lots of responses.

I'm only really new here and have only started a few discussions. Not many people have responded to my posts yet but with time I guess they will.

well, initially when i just came here, for my first discussion, when i posted a topic, there were no posts at all. i did feel a little down you could say. i also knew that i wasn't that good of a topic starter so i just decided that i would rather post to topics. i did start others too that i needed help on. i was happy to get some responses no matter how few. now, you could say i am more or less used to life here. hehe even if i do post discussions, i usually post one that i need help with or would like to know/learn something about. if people respond, all's well. if not, then that's ok. it doesn't affect me that much but i don't blame those who do feel a little hurt or down you could say since they'd of course be eagerly forward to responses from others.

it really doesn't bother if i get a few

It doesn't bother me to be honest, but then again I am not in that situation as my friends are always quick to respond! But even when I first started I got little or no responses, I was finding my feet on the site, and the longer you are around and start responding to others, then they will respond to your discussions, you get a name and you become a familiar face, you get added as a friend and your popularity grows! Some topics can be bizarre and if you know nothing about them, then it's understable to only get a couple of responses. For example I did a discussion on a book, if you haven't read that book, it's pointless responding, so specialist subjects you expect to only get a few people who will respond.

it not bother to me at all but im so glad to those who reply all my discussion, thanks to all of them.

I think it depends on your friends list, and what the dicsussion is about, but also the time of day and day of the week too! Seems not too many people are around on the weekends as they are through teh week. And early morning and late at night there are more people around then during the day.. At least in my group of friends i think that is teh way its been working. I usually dont get a whole whole lot of responses to my discussions either, but once in a while I'll get a good one and lots of people answer. I think its mostly hit and miss ;) Good luck :) and Congrats on getting into the digest with your discussion about what you do when you first sign into mylot ;)

I'm not too concerned about the number of responses I get. Often what I post is a random thought, or something that piques my curiosity (like my President's Day question). I figure that if I get a few responses or even no responses, I'm fine with that. If I get a lot of responses, then I must have said something in the right way and at the right time.

hmm ... I don't think it hurts my feeling. when I posted any discussion that got few responses, I thought, "oh well, maybe I have asked a question that was too specific in certain field / area, so the others who were outside this field / area don't know how to respond." for example, not everyone use certain CMS engine for their blog, they probably just use free hosted blog like blogger and when I asked about Wordpress then it makes sense if non Wordpress user won't respond. so I think that was fine, and when I get new idea to start another discussion, I will add a new one again. :)