mylot improvements - limit the number of discussions

I see your point and I'm somehow agree with you. For me it's better like this, myLot admin should create new rules about ratio, what I mean ratio is like 1 : 10, each member could generate one new started discussion after they have posted 10 responses, it's good because that kind of system could stimulate member to response first before they could start a new discussion. This could also make every member have more responsibility to post their thought for others, not just individualist poster who only start some discussions and abandon it, not giving any comment to their responder. I hope admin could read this discussion, this is good input and could help myLot growing better. It's sadden me when I look this ratio going unbalance, every member start new discussion, meaningless discussion and getting no answer, that means in recent condition the discussion starter is more than the responder, that's why the possibility of zero response discussion growing bigger nowadays.

I wouldn't think that a limit to the discussions posted would be necessary. Rather, a limit on the minimum number of words may be more effective for your purposes. Maybe discussions with no responses should be deleted by the system after 48 hours or something like that...

I don't find anything wrong with one-liner topic. I mean, they're there for you to choose to respond to or to just ignore. It's not something that's really cluttering for me because if you have an idea about it, then why not express yourself, right? Further, it's an avenue for people to earn. I don't mind them at all. Doesn't mean I reply to them all the time, but at least they're there if you don't have anything to respond to.

I suggested the '5 a day' discussion limit in another discussion, just before I read yours. There may be a few members who could come up with more than 5 quality discussions a day, and they would be constrained, but generally, I think it is a good starting place. To encourage new members to come up with good topics, I also think they should have to make, say, 20 responses before they could post a topic of their own. This would ease genuine members into the Mylot system, while frightening off the 'fast buck brigade.' I also think discussion topics should have a minimum word count - perhaps 25 words - to discourage one line responses. I've always said that Mylot is about quality rather than quantity; now we need to convince the minority of members who have dollar signs in their eyes that we won't tolerate their cheap tricks.

its ok for me to limit the number of discussions, if you're trying to say that a user is limited to 5 discussions per day. But please don't limit the number of posts. And I think 5 is still so much.. mylot.com has 176,218 members as for now, times 5 and that would be around 881090 posts per day! I rarely start a discussion, I just do if there is a point or if I need to. I don't want to start a discussion with only 1 or 2 or even zero respondents.

I think your idea to improve the discussion content is good but your method of fixing the content isn't all that good limiting people to 5 a day wouldn't change people efforts all that much it would just make the people who do put actuall post up such as myself not able to do as much as we would like... i think that after a certain amount of posts maybe earning more would be best but 5 is still low to start....

NO WAY!!! There are plenty of days when I start absolutely no discussions at all. Then there are days when I have a zillion things happen around me, or see a bunch of different interesting things. Then I have days when I can't even get to myLot to post because of my schedule and all, but when I am able I might have 10 things to say. Although I do wish there was a way to regulate the "one-liners" I think they pretty much go away when people realize that's not the way we work here. Those discussions are usually from newbies who are just learning.

That may be so. I am not a post starter myself. I prefer to respond to many discussion posted in here and I noticed that there are indeed many from members that just post a one liner post and sometimes posts are just for the numbers to be credited in their account. With the limited number of post it will discourage many from posting short and nonsense post in here.

Hi - I think that is an excellent idea. I start a few discussions each day but if it was limited to even 2 per day it would encourage you to respond to more discussions which lets face it would make us earn more. So yes - make the suggestion to admin!

we're on the same wavelength somehow. in my case i see more money making minded people here (since posted discussions generate more income). some seem to just post and post and post and not care to respond to others' discussions. some seem to be surprised that i'm bothered by this. but i am.... this is a community and if they look at a community as one prying on others, well...

I'd up the number to 10, but the catch is, they cannot be about the same topic. For instance, I've seen a lot of "Is there a God?", "Do you believe in God?" conversations. This is just my two cents, but I think some of those should be deleted, because all they serve to do is stir up strong emotions from people on all sides--Christians, non-Christians, etc., not to mention the fact that it just gets a bit tiring seeing the same subject coming up over and over again.

Perhaps is a good idea. Then the quality of the topic discussions might get improve, maybe this is just what I am thinking right now. Some how, people might just want to share and they can come out with more than 5 topics to be talk.

i agree.it must be limited because many of them are posting useless topics and expect people respond and they ignore the responses .my lot should definitely be looking into it by now .

Sorry to say but i disagree with your suggestion. If Mylot was only limited to 5 discussions a day, Users would find this site to be quite boring. Being limited wouldn't be fun at all. You make a point and say if we were limited to 5 people would think about it more. This may be true but i feel Mylot would lose some users by doing this.

Not important for me about number of discussions, because somedays i can't create new discussions. When i can't do i will comment another discussions for built my new discusions.