mylot has nearly 1,71,360 members,still no or only few responses to discussions

There are certainly that number of members but, of course, a large proportion of them are not active and probably haven't visited the site for several years. MyLot never deletes a member's account unless they have good reason to (because of violation of Terms or Guidelines) or if the member requests it, so there are bound to be only a small proportion of active members - possibly no more than about a thousand and almost certainly less than that. There are still plenty of people who respond to discussions, however. If you are receiving few or no responses, consider that it may be your discussions that are not interesting enough, not that there are too few members. There are two main reasons why some discussions receive more responses than others. The first is, of course, that the discussion appears to many to be worth replying to - in other words, it 'engages' people and inspires them to write quality responses; the second is that one has built up a good reputation on MyLot, which will usually also mean that one has many friends who have become friends because of a real interest in one's discussions and responses. Having a good list of friends certainly goes a long way to getting good responses but it is important to choose friends carefully based on their activity and interests.

That number probably includes the accounts of those who are no longer here but even so, your thoughts are going in the right direction in my opinion too. Too many users are convinced that creating new discussions is the way to go here. I am convinced that we should discuss on the already existing discussions and not keep starting new ones which are repeated topics half the time anyway. If we discuss on already existing topics we earn just the same. We earn for our activity anywhere on the site and there is no point in churning out new discussions with so many out there with few responses which deserve more. Shall we start a campaign?

I'm not sure if that is an exact number as people come and go on here. Though the population appears to be pretty great as I've seen a lot of users on mylot in the time I've been here. But just because there are a lot of members on here doesn't mean you'll get a lot of responses. Discussions can get passed up with so many being generated everyday. It helps to have a lot of friends on here if you are looking to get a lot of responses. It also helps to have discussions that everyone can relate to. These are just a couple of secrets to mylotting. I hope it helps! Good luck!

Hi. This number is the number of registrations that have been there with this site and not the number of people here presently. Though I don't have anything to prove it but I believe at least half of the people who once registered here are gone after spending a bit of time here.

Good question. I'm still very new here, but I've started 4 or 5 discussions and only had one response. I even started a discussion on the brand new Tom Hanks movie "Angels & Demons" today and NOBODY has responded to that. I was really surprised, as I'd think there would be a lot of interest in a new, high profile film. Hmmmm....

According to me the reason most of the discussions get less response is because they are repeated. By repeated I mean a similar discussion has already been started earlier and people have responded to it. Nowadays before starting a discussion I make a search in discussion option and find out if there has been similar discussions started before. Because people generally will not respond to same kind of discussion again and again. There must be some way to alert users, before creating a discussion, that similar discussions already exist.

It's the total number, and among us, there're many inactive members. Moreover, the're too many topics and I think that makes reason.

I think that's because people are very eager to earn and they register then after a few post they got tired. Unlike us who all believe in the power of a penny counts and the motivation in earning plus the people you meet here each day were all amazing. Especially if you feel that you have found a family in here where you can confine your worries and not being judged is a plus factor. Their were a lot of people here who has a lot of referrals but they are all inactive. :)