This is interesting.......Do you feel like this as well?

Hi dear well i believe every one start a discussion which seems intresting or inspiring to one self, i am sure that quality cant be judge by quantity, i have noticed that qualitative discussion most of times get fewer response. i dont know exact reason but i think as people are here either to earn or to enjoy and get rid of tensions of real life, so they avoid such discussion and prefer to reply to light and general discussion. it happenes to me and thats one of reason i am very bad at starting a discussion and feel happy to stay in touch with friends by responding to them so cheer up baby enjoy it Take care

I think everyone feels that his/her discussion, which he/she starts is an exciting one. No doubt about it, every discussion is 'different'. whenever I start a new discussion, I also feel the same, that mine is a 'special' one and it is going to fetch many views, answers and thoughts. But later on I also feel like you that mine is an average one. I do not much bother about the number of responses I receive, I respect of the quality of a response. Even if I get a single response to my discussion and it is a quality one, I feel glad and satisfied. Number of responses received in regard to a discussion cannot be the yardstick for measuring its popularity or merit. Nonetheless, you always start somewhat different and extra-ordinatry discussions, which I do not find anywhere else, when I say it, I mean it. And it is always a great fun to participate in your discussions.

Hi mimpi.. this has happened to me a lot of times. Sometimes i would think that this topic will interest a lot of hearts here and would imagine tons of response... but in the end it may get a handful.. I think some days back i have started a thread with this " Expectation turn topsy-turvy" in this regard.. On the other occasion i started a topic.. just like that.. with no real intention of starting it.. " Are you worried about your height".. my god.. i never expected that it would get 83 responses.. in a single day.. some times it happens like this. We cannot feel the pulse of mylot.. Now i average about eight to nine responses a topic, and i am quite satisfied. Take care.

hi mimpi1911! I feel the same excitement as you do when I start to make my own discussion. But i do get some disappointments too when the respondents are too few. However, I don't think that we should judge discussions based only on how many the respondents are but we should also consider on the quality of the topic itself. I have seen a lot of discussions that are really great but have one or two respondents. I do think that even if there is only one who has responded to your discussion and that respondent has enjoyed it and learned something from it, then that itself is already a successful discussion in my own opinion. Take care and God bless!

Hi Mimipi, Oh I do this all the time get really excited and then, no responses, a few responses but suddenly I will post one that is amazing and just gets so many it is hard to keep up with responding to them all. Sometimes I also think it depends on the activity here and as to whether people get to see the discussion. I had one the other day when notifications were playing up that only received three and I expected many more. I posted a really serious awareness discussion the other day and have jus a few responses but I know for sure that it has been read by many that didn't feel they could respond and thats okay too. I don't think we should judge a discussions merit by the umber of responses as I have participated in some really interesting ones that just haven't been seen by many as they have been from new users so it just hasn't had that many responses. This one though that you have started is a very interesting discussion topic so well done you. Huggles. Ellie :D Ps. May not be too active over the next week or so but will catch up soon. Really need to get off the computer and get some stuff done in the garden and around the house LOL. Ellie :D

mimpi1911 hi yes I think it happens to all of us. I often have felt the ones of mine that did not get many responses were the best and the ones with tons of responses were not as good, but you just can not tell what will interest other people. we should just the merit of a discussion by how interesting it is and not the number of responses as a discussion on what flavor of ice cream is your favorite will have forty responses while a discussion on say how many of you try to read at least three or four books a month may get only ten responses. people sometimes op;t for the easy when they are tired.

Although my experience in mylotting seems to be around one tenth of yours , what I have realised is its just better to enjoy oneself here by by just putting across ones feelings and emotions and start a discussion or do something just to tingle people's curiosity. I used to also think like the way you did, but there are just too many factors which can influence you discussion and responses, like the frame of mind of the other mylotters at that time, which intererst are they into, the demographics, whether your friends on mylot see it or not. So lets just be posting, responding, making friends and enjoy ourselves.

Sometimes I think that I have an unique and a different discussion, but I never hope for many responses. I have a reason. People don't want the unique and quality discussion. They like popular discussions. So, only a little bit unique and quality discussions could be a popular one. Btw mimp, you have some popular discussions, don't you?

I frankly all the times do not feel so. i just think taht it should have many responses at least.I am not a good writer. so i acn't think mine will be best all the times. still i try nmy best.

The number of responses has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of the discussion. Rather, it has to do with the quality of the people on your friends list!

I guess I learned long ago that life is never what we expect or hope. But that doesn't mean it't not interesting! I've found some wonderful discussions started here with no or little responses. That's sad, but I think it's happening because of the attitude that I discovered when I first arrived here. There are some who will not visit the discussions of "newbies" nor will they accept "friendships" with those who are new. In my younger days, I would have been insulted at that attitude. After all, I have been writing on the internet since 1999. My blog at a writer's site has been viewed over 11,000 times and my portfolio there has been viewed over 18,000 times. I may be new here but not to the internet world. Or to writing either. And yet I have been virtually ignored here. What's even worse is that others have discovered this same attitude, and I've read posts of people who just gave up starting discussions all together - because they got no responses. That means that the same people start discussions here all the time (or newbies who have not yet learned that others may not wish to comment because they're new). I've just learned to take my brilliant discussions elsewhere. And I wonder how many others do the same thing?

Yes, Sometimes I habe this feeling that my discussion will earn more responses because it talks about everybodys matter and everybody can response successfully but I only got a few comments. That makes me feel stupid, embarrass and iritated with myself because of thinking that i am going to start one new unique discussion. Ehhhh, I have learned to let it go though.. that's life..

hey, good move,i should say.this question of yours really looks like a genuine one which needs to be answered and not like the other responses which ask for answers. master move.

Hey mimpi1911, this happens to me lots of time. I dunno but I think discussions with more responses are the ones that are easy to answer and more people can relate to. The most responses I get from a discussion I started is which is better KFC or mc'donald's? Sounds easy and a lot of people can relate.

This is a good one Mimpi.Some of the discussions I raised are my favorites .I always thought that they are good and exclusive.They still remain the best in my heart irrelevant of the number of responses they managed to get which are always very few in numbers.