Resurrection ain't all it's cracked up to be.

You know this has stumped me all along…this phenomenon of a select few getting regularly hitting centuries or at least a half century even thru the most inane and opt-repeated topics while we the supposedly minnows can never do anything right to attract responses to our sundry problems and observations. I came across many ‘tips’ the most important being to increase friends and referrals. Now I am poor at networking and useless banter so I have no referrals and never solicit friendship (I accept all as it is not for me to judge anybody)…even then, the responses have just trickled in. I guess my highest score is in the 20s So I have semi-retired from posting discussions…oh well! Not all of us are born genuises BTW…which of your efforts have your resurrected?

Looks like this one is doing well, I mean it's on the "today's top" tab. I notice that if I start in certain interests that draws more people.

Maybe it means that the topic you have discussed is not that popular with other users? Or else you have not put a catchy headline at the top of your discussion. Or it might means that you don't have a wide circle of friends. Some people are lucky to receive a lot of responses when they start a discussion about a trivial subject.

My apologies mate, I've been struggling to keep up with some other things lately and haven't been able to devote as much effort to responding to other people's discussions as I usually do. I was well aware of your desire to do this too. I did make it to a few of them though I think! Maybe the geniuses are hibernating? Is it that time of year already???

for me i've seen the exact opposite... when i start a discussion i don't get that many responses probably 7 max... but the next day when i revisit the discussion, rate people's answers, and reply to them... i find that even MORE people respond which makes it more fun and interesting... my advice to you is to keep resurrecting your discussions... you never know what you'll get!

I think, if you need a lot of points back, then your argument must be innovative. But I still think that others involved in the discussion of more practical.

I have periodically resurrected an old discussion with little response. It's better to start new ones I think. The thing is I tried to resurrect discussions that didn't get much of a response the first time around. Perhaps that was the problem, it wasn't that good to begin with so why would I expect it to get better over time. :) I wouldn't bother, instead I would take the time to start a brand new discussion.

Well not it is not that great it depends on people being interested and not having seen it the first time. I worked over my old discussions fairly well so there is not a lot of room to resurrect them and some I really do not want to. The moment has passed. I would rather see lots of new interesting ones but it seems that there are not that many of those around as I have had trouble finding much to reply to lately.

We all need to face it,their are some people on Mylot their are not going to respond to your discussions no matter what it's about. I have felt the same way at times myself, but what the heck,I'm just try to start a discussion on something that I want to find out about or something that I think would be interesting to someone else. I've never thought about resurrecting any of my old discussions, even though at the time I would think that the topic that I started would have been something worth discussing.

Good luck with that. At least you are trying. I am one of those non-creative types that can't think of anything to post.