Which is Tough - Discussion Starting or Responding to Discussions?

Neither is difficult for me. Only thing is when I am here on mylot I should have complete peace and my mind should be able to concentrate fully. I can always start a new discussion and can respond to discussions on various subjects. I enjoy doing both. But if you ask me to strictly compere the both, I would say that 'responding' is a bit easier of the two tasks.

I also think starting discussion is tougher, that's why I haven't start a new discussion for quite some time now and its also because I don't have any idea in my head. But I guess it's also depends in our mood when do mylotting, because there are times that I'm just not in the mood.

Mostly I respond to discussions and that is a time factor issue for me as due to my work committments, I am often away from home. What it does mean is that I can respond to my friends' discussions in word and then cut and paste them into myLot when I get online. It would be much harder if I have started a discussion and then need to read and comment on the responses that I receive. The other thing is that, for me, it is often very hard to think of a discussion that has not already been started by someone else. Already there are a lot of repeat discussions here on myLot and I do not want to add to that number if I can possible avoid it that is. Your friend who wanted to start 100 discussions in a day is being unrealistic because it is very hard to think up that number and still make them a good quality discussion that others will want to respond to. How on earth was he going t find the time to read all the responses, make comments where appropriate and also give our best responses. Okay so maybe with that number of discussions he would only get a small number of responses to each of them. It is highly likely that many of them would receive no responses at all which is why he is better off starting few discussions at one time. There are many members like I am in that if we see a member who does not make a comment to any of the responses received for their discussion, we simply do not respond. The reason is that we have no idea whether our responses are being read or not, and there are plenty of other discussions to respond to.

Both are not difficult for me but as i do have a very limited here i just choose to respond to a discussion as it would be easy for me. I can make my own discussion but it would be hard for to maintain it as i have only limited time. If you can observe, its been quite a long time since i started a discussion. Anyway, i think it would really depend on my availability and mood as well. I have lots of ideas to start a discussion but i'm just afraid i couldn't maintain as i have lots of unresolved discussion to resolve first due to my very limited time. Just sharing. Happy posting!

Hi Raghu, Generally, starting a discussion is tough because you need bright ideas for a successful discussion. Responding is easier than starting a new because ideas will be there you need to give your opinion about the subject. But at the same time if the subject is not familiar one then it is difficult to respond. For me starting discussion is tougher than responding because I am running out of ideas. To be honest I am running out of time too. I have written some topics but never started the same because I have to finish my works on discussions that I started already and selecting a BR tag is also pending.

I think starting quality discussions is tough. However, I think finding a quality discussion to respond to is even tougher So I think it is really easy responding to discussions because most of them are just common sense. I am not saying all of them are so I hope no one takes me the wrong way, but there are quit a few that have no quality to them at all it just questions you can tell someone just thought of off the top of their heads. I have started some of those myself, because there are times I just yearn to start a discussion, but can never think of any to start so I just put in whatever pops into my head.

Personally for the most part it is always harder to start a New discussion in here than to respond back to a discussion. I know that when it comes to responding back to a discussion that someone else has started it already gives you a thought to go on, and you can see how others feel as well. But when you start a New discussion it is up to you to find things that others would be interested in responding back too which many times can be quite hard to do for sure.

I believe that starting quality discussions is harder then responding. In order to start a quality discussion you need to take many things in account like what topic will be good to start on and how to start the topic to get people interested! Starting a quality discussion means that you need to get lots of good responses and that is really hard! So starting a discussion is way more harder then responding to a discussion.

Hi raghul77ster. For me I find creating a new thread more tough than responding to people's discussions. Sometimes I think of a good thread yet found out later that someone had created it already. Normally I just make a new thread out of the blue, that means it depends of my mood. Good for you, you can respond 150 discussions in a day. My goal is to make at least 5 responses everyday, maybe thats why I got my first pay out 10months after I think I became a member here in mylot.

It will be tough to work on both, posting discussion and responding to discussions, IF your intention is purely to earn. But if you are doing them because you are enjoying it and learning from it, then they will be easy as eating peanuts

Hi raghul, for me both is toughi get very very low time for spending time on internet. i even dont check my mails regularly as i finish everything in phone call itself.so i think, in mylot, doing both things is tough for me. dont get angry.. i said for fun.. i thinks giving responses is easy.

Depends on the types of discussions. I would go for quality discussions rather than quantity. Readable and enjoyable responses are the best. For me, there is no point in posting for the heck of posting. LOL!!! But I guess the kind of discussion would be of interest to you rather than to the majority. If you think that the particular subject was cool, but the others find it boring, don't be discouraged. The population of myLot is growing every minute and am sure one of the members would respond to the topic. Sorry if I was a bit off, going back to the topic at hand. Shall we say that a particular topic is of interest and one that would catch your attention, both starting and responding would be difficult. He he he! Saw a topic started by GADHISUNU about using alternative medicine, this topic is of interest to me but I can't seem to start with my response because I wanted to learn more about what in particular about alternative medicine he wanted to talk about. I should say that I had a hard time responding and ended up not doing it. On the otherhand, while browsing, I saw your discussion, I started typing as if it was my second nature. On the starting part, I would say that I also take my time in making quality topics. There were simple ones yet, I figured I should be more consistent with my ideas.

I tink that it is a lot harder to come up with a new discussion. I have never posted more than a few in a day and even then, I try to come up with ideas throughout the day. Usually I respond to as many discussions as I can but I still try to start some discussions.

en...my friend,there is an old saying in china, using the little to get the big...but i think both of them are tough, they must be the quality starting and responding... ha~~~

[b]Well, if you're taking a tally, like you, I find starting a worthwhile discussion the harder. I give equal effort to both, however. Maggiepie[/b]

Starting new discussion is definitely more difficult and challenging. I don't see how others can start multiple discussions. I find that it takes a lot of time in order to come up with a good topic to discuss. Otherwise you just end up posting a question that is so ordinary that it become super obvious that you just wrote the question for the sake of posting a discussion. Anyway, I really like answering discussions in mylot. There are many to choose from all the time! :)

hi raghul brodher, i definitely say answering to others discussion is somewhat easy than we start discussions. i sawed your reply to one user that anyone can start discussions. but "getting response" is the important thing. i totally agree with that brother..

for me its too responding to discussions is easy and I can respond discussion around 10 or 20 in two hours but its very difficult for me start a dicussion , some time I have topic but don't have matter but if I have matter then its very dificult to define its topic thanks for sharing

ah... rightly said, my friend.. Replying to other people's posts is very easy, but starting your own if tougher. As a matter of fact, its been almost a week since i started any topic... just aint getting any ideas...

i think response to any discussion is tough. because here you try to give him good suggestion or answer to any discussion. you try to satisfy that person with your answer. other side on a discussion you give your feeling, question for more and more response. agian here some wants to give you a good respose is much harder than starts s new discussion