Why are there so many unanswered discussions on mylot

WELCOME TO MYLOT!!! Excellent observation for a newbie!!! Going through over 100 pages of the No Response, I'm sure you could see why a good portion of them received no response. Of course, every now & then a good discussion falls by the wayside along the way & gets buried in the midst of the crap. I respond from my email notifications & I know I have been guilty of meaning to respond to a discussion & then real life jumps in & screws up my day. Oddly enough, I never seem to get back to the one I meant to respond to as I have 100 more waiting. Rather than spend my time trying to remember whose discussion I meant to go to & what the topic was, I just jump back in with the current discussions. Sometimes a good myLot friend does a discussion that I just don't have a good answer for. I have days that thoughts don't come to me as easily as other days & I don't feel the need to burden my friends with a pure & simple rambling. Then there are the discussions that I just don't agree with but I respect the owner's opinion & I don't respond with a negative comment so their discussion can continue in a happy light. And as hard as most people here will find it to believe, there are just days I have NOTHING to say!!! I used to go to the "No Response" tab & look until I came upon a good discussion hiding. Most of them have been pushed back so far that I quit doing that. I will tell anybody listening, if you have a discussion with NO RESPONSES, PM me the title of the discussion & I will go clear it out for you. I looked at the discussions you've started & I don't see any 0 responses. With over 184 thousand members, there could be over a half million reasons that a good discussion is hiding in the midst of the crappy ones. Hopefully you won't have any of those!!! If you ever do, don't take it personal as it is bound to happen eventually.

hi malamar i thinks mylot member not interest to respond from that discussion,because of that we have a discussion that zero respond me i have a discussion that zero respond but is okey to me maybe mylot member not interested from that kind of discussion. however maybe that discussion is created in any moment because of that the discussion is fresh not open the member of mylot!

Welcome to myLot! I have the 'no responses' tab open permanently and I refresh it in between posts. I respond to as many of the new users who are asking for help as I can. I also inform other new users when their discussion is a violation (polls, jokes and recipes etc.) I also report violations if I spot them. You have given a perfect example of a recurring reason - lack of substance. Eventually those discussion (or non-discussions) are removed bu until then they fill up the pages. I have many users on my friend list who know that if they have a particularly old discussion which has not yet received a response, they can send me a PM and I will try and respond on it for them. As for the others.... how about one week where no-one is allowed to start a new discussion and we all go and respond on those and get them out of the way

There are several reasons for this, the first being that a lot of them are from new people here and they don't have any or many friends, a lot of people here look to their friends discussions first. this is a mistake most new people make, another reason is they ask questions as you pointed out! Another is people are self centered and ask questions that they are interested in for instance a certain who they like, and this is a global site, most people haven't heard of this person! Another is in the same vein but it happens a lot! People will ask about local issues, like who is going to win the election of the mayor of London? They narrow the response to people who know this issue! I've seen this over and over where I don't have a clue about this web site, or this singer or this political issue! time zones are important also!

Hi malamar, Yes we all have lots and lots of discussions which dont get any reply or may be one or two replies which is really frustrating and few reasons i can think of are 1) you posted it in wrong interst category 2) The topic doesnt interest anyone but you 3) it requires too much of technological knowledge 4) You are quite new here and not many friends 5) you are not active 6) in your previous discussions you have not thanked those who have responded to your discussion. There can be more reasons too but right now i can think of these only.

I'm thinking it's because discussions are somewhat a one time chance. When you submit it it's at the top of lists, but afterward it gets pied down with heaps of new discussions. If it doesn't strike an answer right away, it's unlikely that it will ever be answered. Of course, there are tons of exceptions...

Hi Dear! Welcome to mylot family. You are right that many discussions get zero response. There are around 184,745 members as on date. Even if 100 are active at a given point of time and assuming that they are starting one discussion each, 100 discussions will come on board. Every discussion does not get many responses, due to some many reasons. Sometimes, it lacks sum and substance, sometimes, members cannot relate to it. I feel easier discussions and discussions which elicit views, gather more responses. Also, it depends upon the circle of your friends, how and when they come to respond to your discussions. Larger circle of friends does not mean more responses, however, friends do help in making a discussion 'interesting' and 'alive' with their witty responses, comments and counter-comments. Please do not feel disappointed or disheartened. It is said that - where there is a will, there is a way. All the best to you.

I ask myself this question too,as maybe it's just Me,but I feel as though a bunch of them are mine! As for answering discussions,I do look out for discussins from my friends list,but I'll also go through the no response file to help somebody get out of there! I'll respond to discussions from Newbies or Veterans alike on here,as long as the discussion gives me something to think about..Good Luck!

I think those discussions maybe too difficult to answer or maybe the authors wrote make everybody read and didn't understand what the authors mean to answer. It's maybe those discussions have just started. There are many ways to explain your question.

There are many reasons why many discussions go unanswered or without any responses. Some of the factors for getting responses are; 1. Member's Interest 2. Timing 3. Traffic 4. Tags 5. Interest category posted in 6. How many friends you have made 7. Active referrals 8. Consistent & regular posting etc etc

There are some discussions which cannot be answered like 'Does site XYZ.com pay?' Unless you know about the site you are unlikely to answer. Similarly there are question which do not interest people. Thus many discussions remain unanswered. I sometime check the 'no response' section.

i think many things why many unsanswered discussion in mylot. first the topic is not interesting many members of mylot, second the topic is aim for limited person or limited region or belief.third the question is so hard to be answered.