Do you think discussions starting with "do you" draws a lot of responses?

I don't know . Maybe that depends on the actual question after the "do you..."

Although, discussions starting with "do you" do tend to make some a little curious and draws attention, i think that actual content is what the readers will read and respond to.

I think you are right, but essentially you have to ask a question. I hate discussions that don't. How are you supposed to respond?

I think it does, but I usually do not because I want people to think and I do not want to make it too easy. If I can start a Do You which is not easy and does not insult the reader's intelligence, then I could do more of that. I am not making as much money as I hoped this last month, I do not want to neglect the other things, so maybe if I start more discussions, I will get more people to respond.

Hi there richiem! I think that generally, discussions starting with "do you" get a lot of responses. Well, of course, not all discussions starting with "do you" gets much attention. I think that one reason why people tend to gear towards such discussions is because of the fact that it is answerable by YES, NO, or IT DEPENDS. Then those who respond just have to elaborate a little and that's it.

Hi richiem. I'd have to go back and look at all my discussions to see how I started them. But now, I am curious about that because some of my discussions really don't do all that well and I thought it was because of the subject I was selecting. I think you are making an important point here--when we (myLotters)see an "easy" question we can immediately related to, we figure, "Hey, I can just answer this one real quick," and so, we do. Thanks for this discussion topic.

Hi richiem I think in away it does. When we start with 'Do you.." people can get to the content and thoughts of the discussion right away. Many times users do not read through the whole discussion and things get easier for such users. They read the heading and get to write straightway. Even I have noticed this. My discussions with "Do you...' have more than usual number of responses. So that explains it all. smiles..

Yep, seems like do you and have you ever are the way a lot of discussions start. What few I have started I have began with one of those two phrases.

Dear friend, The most no of responds and least responds I got starts with do you and I hope those responds might be much easy to answer or put up the view just as questions with answering Yes or No. May be just like True or False. Those responds has to just give view in any one of the options like Yes or No or True or False may like these.

Yes, I do think that discussions starting with "Do You" attract loads of responses. Even this discussion starts with "Do You" and it's the third response. I think it is because this allows the responder to involve himself in the discussion. Here's an example... Discussion 1 Drinking Coffee while myLotting helps a lot 6 Responses Discussion 2 Do You drink coffee while myLotting? 19 Responses It is because they have to answer a question rather than commenting on a composition. It makes the responder blend into the discussion to dig the answer from himself, rather than to just applaud for a nice piece of work.

It is possible, for me when I see a title that is asking a question of me then I tend to be more drawn to that discussion than perhaps another that is just stating something.

Yes, as long as the question also requires a reason in the response. If you ask "Do you like..." or "Do you prefer...", the answer is often just yes I do, or no I prefer something else. "Do you think...." is probably a better question, as it invites better quality responses which include personal thoughts, ideas and opinions. I think you make a good point about starting a discussion with a question in the heading. It is not a requirement, but it will probably get a bigger number of responses.

I don't know but it seems to be working for you so far! :-)

Yes, I think they do, and we can take your current discussion as example.

It certainly does even though I think I have only a few discussions starting with those two encouraging words. It quickly catches attention for being direct with the title itself so supplements would only be provided on the content of the initial post yet, even with the title alone, the respondent can pretty much speculate on what he or she may share on the discussion. After 'Do you' and the actual topic being asked, the possible replies that the discussion may receive would be yes or no, agree or disagree, whatever the discussion would be leaning to. Some would elaborate on their answers while other would provide their answer and share their opinion.

Yup, i personally think so, as it allows the readers to express their own views at ease, without having to worry if their views will crash against yours and earning a negative rating instead ^_^ It's human nature to respond or express freely when we are given the chance to, and knowing that it's safe to do so ^_^ As compared to others, most ple whom discuss about their life, will only get responds concerning their life only, without much advices or so.. Y? Because those whom respond dun really dare to share when they are not prompted to ^_^

hi richiem yes I think that starting with do you makes the discussion more personal and draws in a lot of readers and gets more responses if the do you has some interesting content. I think I have used that a time or to, also are you blah blah draws people in as it to is] more personal. we respond to things that are in our realm of experience for one thing and personalizing a discussion makes it more interesting.

Well; I do not think so m. I have started many discussions with "DO you" . Yet they did not get too many responses. Some in fact got just 1 or 2 responses. I have seen that sometimes not so great discussions get good number of responses. Why ? - Because they are apparently not so "Interesting" sounding to users.

You are absulately right . Always question with what,do, why draws the more responses.