Do you ever wonder why only 1 or 2 people respond to your discussions?

The trick is to drag them in with content. Never post a one-liner. Instead begin with an idea and develop it as you flesh out your Post. Keep a diary of possible ideas. Look within to find possible ideas from your own life. Everyone has experienced unique events, and happenings. Each of these events has left a story in your mind that you can use to Post or enlarge the content of a Post. Its all there in your head, just go ahead and do it!

Maybe they are not interested to the topic. Secondly, maybe they don't like to give their own personal opinion to it or shy to say it on MyLot. Thirdly, maybe the topic is already been a redundant topic that they have answered to another users topics and so they decided not to answer anymore. Fourth, maybe it was not your lucky day, they ignored your topic and decided to answer other else's question instead of participating on your own discussion.

From the figures besides your name I think you have done well here. Being a senior member here I see no reasons why you cannot command a sizeable response. I guess all the friends of your time have left mylot and now we are at the mercy of the newbies who are still crawling to get their presence felt and not quite familiar with the whole set up here yet. But am fortunate that many newbies have turned up in full force to response to my discussions of late. Most of my friends who used to come to my discussions are no longer here so I need to create some 'goodwill' with the new members here to get their support.

I feel the same way because I only receive at the most 5 responses whenever I post a discussion. I don't think my discussion are that boring and I don't just post discussion just for the sake of posting. I do much thinking first but what I don;t understand is why some people still are not bothering to respond! Hehe! Sour-graping! =p

I had the same problem with some very personal discussions I started. Well, I am not into starting discussions, I most likely prefer to answer them. But yes, if you start worrying about it you get discouraged to start new discussions. Try not to worry about it. If you get one or two responses that are worth be happy with it and thankful to the people that answered you. Mylot is an experience, take everything here as experience to enrich your life :)

Don't be so discouraged ! Your English is so good.I'm a new member of myLot, this is my first reply, so ,I don't have the problem you've said.

I rarely ever start discussions for the same reason. No responses. If I get 2 or 3 I'm doing fairly well. i don't know why it is that some people get so many responses and others get so few. Maybe I'll find some ideas on this discussion.

I have had a few discussions that only a few people responded to. I have also had discussions that no one responded to. I think it has a lot to do with the topic. Either people are interested or they are not. Yes, I do think some read the discussion and then not respond because they don't know what to say. Which is ok also.

Do you comment on the responses you get? That turns it into a discussion, especially if you comment with something that makes them come back and respond again. Do you go and respond on a discussion by each of those who respond on yours? If they know you go to theirs then they will come to yours next time to

I too have the same problem.Sometimes i get no response for the discussions i started.There is nothing we can do about it.We should just post quality discussions for people to respond.We should write our discussions in simple words.We should not feel upset.We should take it as a challenge and start interesting discussions.

Hi ctrymuziklvr. I know what you mean. I can get at least 6 responses in my discussions but no more than 28. But I have seen some discussions without nothing special that get more than 100 responses. I think that it is because those discussions are about easy things that everyone know and don't take much time to reply. Don't worry about it and keep posting because if everyone that can't get many replies in their discussions will stop to start discussions we will have 20 discussions every day only LOL. Chin up and go ahead.

This happened to me too in some of my started discussion. Never I started a disicussion with one sentence, the way I see it, people used to respond more to discussions based in personal lives or when some seek advise on what to do even in just a simple situation they are in to.

Looks like you're already off to a good start with this one! Congrats :) I know how you feel though, that happens to me a lot. On a few, I've even gotten NO responses at all! I wonder if they just get overlooked sometimes, or if they don't seem to be very interesting from the title. Who knows, but I agree, it is frustrating!

I wondered from time to time about it but figured it was because of the time of day I posted it. If anyone is like me when they sign on here, they check their sorties, and then the intrests at the top of the page to see what's been posted most recently, and then move on. If my discussion was posted 6 hours ago, not many are gonna go back and look threw all of them to find out what was posted while they weren't on here. I just deal with what i get when i posted it and move on, it's about having fun here, not worrying about everything else.

i have wondered but it don,t help many will not answer your responds and yet they want you to answer theirs.i been asking that question since i been here i don,t ask anymore.i know this make you feel bad because it made me feel bad when i was trying hard to start good discission.i just gave up if they do they and if they don,t they don,t.don,t worry it,s going to be ok.

I don't think it has much to do with discussions being boring. It could be time of day. It could be your friends aren't getting the notifications. I've had that problem. It could just be luck. I start discussions that I have an interest in. If I get a response or 2, better for me than none. Don't get discouraged. It happens to us all at one point or another.

I sometimes wonder about that too, but thankfully I havent had many discussions where I only got 1 or 2 responses, but I have had a few duds but I think that it helps to try and make discussions that come from things you truly want to know about as well as what others find interesting, you have to kind of think of topics that others find interesting too, but I dont let it bother me to much if someone dosent respond to a discussion I just move on and make another one and hope that people find the topic as interesting as I do.

I really don't mind if I have only one or two responses, the important thing is to get at least one response, that is what matters the most.

I'm new here and start no discussions yet.But i post some responses for some discussions.It seems that i never get a comment.I don't know why either.Is my response not so good or they are not interested in my response ? But never mind,i will learn here step by step.

now this discussion of yours have reached more than 10 responses! i think it will still continue to grow! maybe it's time for you to get new friends here in mylot. your friends might not be active anymore in mylot. i'm new here & i just added you! you can also try to add all the people who responded to your discussions.:)