how do you feel when your discussion gets zero response?

Hi pangbo217, It is the most saddest thing here. No response for our discussion will make us demotivated sometimes. But there is a few thing that happen and we should try to avoid it if we could. First, we are newbies. There is a lot of newbies made a lot of discussion before they response to anyone discussion. This is not a bad thing but it is more nice if we could give a response to other people discussion first before we started ours. One more thing is newbies usually didn't have a lot of friends and that is why his discussion didn't have much attention from others. Second, topic discussed. Maybe we think that our topics is interesting but others thing it otherwise. This is happen all the time. Sometime if our discussion too focus on one aspect or region that tend to get less response. Try to make a discussion that everybody can participate. Third, breaking guidelines. There is a lot of people here make a discussion that breaking the guidelines (http://www.mylot.com/o/guidelines.aspx). Since this discussion will be deleted, nobody will respond to it. Once your response deleted, your earning from that response will be deducted too. Last but not least, never give a comment on your responses. When you started a discussion make sure you have time to give a comment on the responses that you received. Leaving a response without comment will tarnish your reputation to others. When people can sacrifice their time to respond to your discussion, it is your courtesy to give a comment on that. This is the way you show your appreciation on their comment. Good luck and have a nice day.

When I started out I had the same thing happen. Lots of people on mylot, even those who have been on here a long time have discussions with no responses. I have a couple myself, but after spending some time on here I also have some discussions with responses, so don't get too disheartened. When you start on mylot, your discussions sometimes get passed by unnoticed either, becuase they are put on at the wrong time of day when not many people are around to respond, or just because not many people know about you yet. It doesn't necessarily mean there is anything wrong with your discussions. The best thing to do when you start on mylot is to start responding to other peoples discussions and make some friends. This way when you do start posting your own discussions you will have some people who will most likely respond to your discussions. If you have some good topics to discuss now though, don't be put off by not getting responses, because a discussion can always become active in the future. Just think of your first few discussions as part of the learning curve. If you keep active on mylot then I am sure your discussions will pick up in the future. Just keep trying.

It happens to all of us, though I must say after you are here a while it becomes more rare, you learn what people like to talk about and elaborate on. Usually the title of your post can kill your discussion or bring it to life. You have to make that interesting so you can bring people into your discussion. If it is something that you would respond to usually someone else will think the same. Don't do something boring that you would not respond to if you were looking in at your discussion from the outside. But anyways, welcome to mylot and best of luck to your postings!

I have posted discussions before that I didn't get any responses... I got a little disapponinted when I saw that but I coulodn't do anything so I just started another one again; I try tomake it as interesting and informative as I could and try to receive more responses.

Oh! I feel a little disappointed. Trust me I have alot of discussions created with no response. BUt thats okay, maybe my idea today doesn't interest anyone so I'll try again the next day,