Why Do You Start a Discussion......

Seems to me that people who start discussions and walk away without any interaction are here for the money. They know they don't get credit for responses to discussions, so those aren't worth their time, they just go on to another discussion. If I find a discussion interesting, I will post a comment even though I know the discussion starter isn't coming back. I think maybe what I have to say may be read by someone else and may be of some help to them. I don't do it for the discussion starter who isn't interested in interacting. *LOL* I guess if we started boycotting these types of members they might get the hint???

I have a 3 strikes and you're out rule. If I am not responded to three times I don't bother visiting again, no matter how compelling the discussion. Personally I believe that repliying is simply a courtesy, even if it's a simple "Thank you". There have been serial discussion posters in the time that I have been here and some of them have requested friendship. But they've not bothered with me, so why should I bother with them? That said, if the respond to one of my discussions I will reply. I think that it is something to do with money. The theory being that placing discussions (and getting responses) earns the dosh. Also myLot Guidelines say that you don't have to respond as they don't pay for them. However, I think our male friend from Illinois established directly from myLot HQ that you WILL be paid if you reply with something of substance. So for all the money chasers out there - what's stopping you?

Hear, hear Bo. By definition it is a DISCUSSION. A discussion is not one person talking and the other remaining silent! If people wish to make a statement and then never interact with anyone then go and write for a review site or start a blog or something. Personbally I will not continue to answer somebody's discussions if they never, ever make the effort to reply to me. It's just not worth it and I would much rather spend my time interacting with people than typing for the sake of seeing my own words on the screen. People who post discussion after discussion and never reply to anyone are purely looking for the numbers only and are totally insincere. What they need to realize is that it may work at first but in time they will crash and burn because people just won't bother with them anymore.

It all depends on whether the poster has time, and whether they feel to reply to the responses is worth it. Some responses are so final that one can never add anything to it, and others, there are no endings. I do think you can make an effort, you might not get the poster to reply to your response, but she might do the one before you. NOw if there were one hundred responses in the post, then that does seem to be a problem. Anyway I do not feel bad and neither should you. Sometimes people post discussions one day and then answer them the next.

I am new here and I have posted two discussions and the responses I get sometimes seems argumentative. I don't want to offend anyone so i just walk away. I respond to some of them but some again I have no answer. I guess no response is a response.

i do start a topic whenever i think of something at that moment. i just do hope that there would be lots of responders but i cant expect them to be interested in all my topics. i do respond to topics that interest me, i'd be thankful if the discussion starter would reply back, but if not, maybe she/he is out of town :) or still busy responding to other discussions.

I wonder that too. I always try to respond to the responses I get on my discussions even if it hits 50 or 60. It's time consuming but if the responder made an effort to reply to my discussion, I should do the same too. I may miss a few at the end, especially if I don't get a notification of their response, which has happened many times. After several times, if they still don't reply to my response, then I stop answering their discussions. I may go back from time to time, and answer the odd one here and there, but that's about it.

I think starting a few new discussions and meanwhile posting responses will have a good earning here. It seems it's better than posting responses only. I love China

hi theboheminaheart wellI do hope you are not t alking about me as I am woefully behind in replying to the responses on my discussions but I did not just walk away,I have been busy packing to move in a few days, and hence was not on mylot as 'much as I wanted to be. I will catch up I promise, but it might be awhile as I will be off line when we move until we get our computers installed and back on line. I hope that others that are behind have some real reason why they have not responded to the responces on their discussions, not just because they dont care, I know it bother me immensely as I appreciate the time and effort that everyone took to respond to my discussions.So please dont assume that I am never coming back, as I surely will,I promise you.

hi friend, I do like to reply to all those who take time to response my discussion, but somtimes due to luck of time i cannot reply all of them especially if there is more than 100 responder. But i do read them all and I just select some responses that has follow up question about my post. I agree with you that there are some of the members here that dont make comment to there discussion, i try not to answer all of their new post discussion for i know they dont care your post anyway and i cant get any reply at all. It is like talking to yourself ,it make you like crazy.

Good......super nose cut for the persons who start the discussion and not at all responding to the person who added the response to his/her discussion....... and some of the persons, not even select the best response from which they got......

I am responding to all responces what ever discussion I have started. But I saw so many people starts the discussion and not responding long time. I don't know why they are like that. If I respond to one discussion they will not respod to me I will ignore them. I don't responding even though they were not responding. Happy myLotting

Sometimes I forget about them - I don't check my email that this is account is on and i get overwhelmed with reponses - I sometimes don't know what to comment on the reponse. I apologize - I try when I can or when I have something witty to comment to.

I only joined two days ago, and I no you are right. I think it is very rude not to reply as the people have been kind enough to reply to you. Yeah, I always check back to see if they have answered (most do) but there is some who do not. Just do not reply to their discussions. Thats what I am going to do from now on.

Hi there, when I come across any discussions which I’m really interested I would try my best to respond and don’t matter whether I could read any comments in return, as the topics are interesting and within my ability to reply. I know many users here including some of my friends don’t like to leave any comments on the responses they received. I think anyone got his own fancy to due with mylot posting here. Anyway I would feel happy to read the comment left on my response. I do enjoy having further interaction with friends here. posting and take care.

I guess because hope springs eternal and maybe my answer will be the one that gets the person to start responding!

I try and get back to my responders as often as I can. There would not be one discussion I have started where I have not replied to anyone. I know I have not been able to reply to everyone but I do keep going back when I get time and try and respond to as many people as possible. I think everyone should reply to at least some responders. I agree that there is not a lot of point in starting a discussion if you do not want to read what people think. I will say that I think that people do it because all they want to do is increase their number of posts, or maybe they do not realise that you get paid for a good post even if you number count does not go up. Since you only get an increase in your number of posts when you first answer a discussion some people may think that they do not get paid if that number that denotes activity does not increase.

When I start a discussion it's because I want to know what other people think of the topic or read about their experience of it. I will comment on each response, except possibly some very short responses that add nothing to the discussion. I comment on what each person has responded. I don't expect every response I make to be commented on, but if I notice someone is starting discussions and never comments on any of them, I feel I am wasting time participating in their discussions. That person may not even be reading my responses, so I will avoid their discussions in future. A discussion is a conversation and should be interactive between the person who starts the topic and those who respond.

Well, I used to because I find most of this mylotter's discussions interesting but then I just stopped responding to a lot because I haven't gotten a comment back from each of at least 10 discussions I've responded to. Now, even though the discussion has gotten my attention, I just scroll on down to other ones because I don't see the point.

I started a discussion to gain something i wanna know and earn some buck out of it. I will always comment back to all my respondent to give them a feedback. I will keep trying till they come back as i am not going to give up so easily.