Should we not encourage new MyLot members by responding to their Discussions?

Hi susan, if they are new they have less chance of having their discussions seen as won't have developed friends lists, so the best advice is let them respond first and see how a good discussion works. I respond if I'm interested but if people don't comment back then I won't be interested again.

Hello, Suesan. I try to respond to new members discussions, because we were all new members once, and it's a scary thing trying to connect with a huge online community. However, many new members are quite frank in saying that they're only here for the money, and they post dozens of one line discussions, or things that will be sure to be deleted such as 'How much do I earn for each post?' or 'What's your favourite colour?' Anyone who has bothered to glance at the guidelines will know that we're not supposed to discuss our MyLot earnings, or put up 'favourite' discussions, which count as polls. I used to go in and tell people that, but most of them didn't take any notice of me, and when the discussion got deleted, my post and my earnings went with it. I will offer help, advice and support to anyone here, whether they are new members or established members, but I'm not prepared to waste my time on people who can only see dollar signs and have no wish to become a fully participating member of this great online community of ours. My advice to any new member is concentrate on responding to discussions at first. That way, you get to know how MyLot works and you come to recognise what makes for a quality discussion, as well as getting to know other members.

Yes, Suesan, if the person seems to have something genuine to say and I feel that I have something useful to add, I very often do. Generally, I am not a 'few lines' man: I spend far too long giving as good answers as I can! I just was never ever 'economically viable' in my life As a result, some get good answers (and I occasionally get a BR) and some get none.

That is kind of you. Yes, and of course, also as first response, it depends on their topic if it interests you. I haven't posted many starting discussions, adn since I do not have many friends on here, as I started out and took a break for a bit, so not many linked people. But I have tried to answer to intersting topic discussions. (Like this one). ;O)

There are some mylotters who at first starting out don't read the guidelines and thus go against the guidelines. These may be some of the discussions with no responses as most mylotters won't respond, or those that do are doing so to tell the new mylotter they might want to take a look at the guidelines. Some group of mylotters will do this, and yet their earnings are lower because of it. I try to help when I can, but I am hardly on here and want to make as much as possible so I try to just stick to those discussions that interest me, sometimes regardless of whether I believe they to be deleted or not.

hi suesan, I also respond to new discussion created my new members. I also check the "no response tab" and response to some that caught my interest and attention. We were new in here once so getting involve with their new topic is a good way to welcome them.

I agree that the new comers must be encouraged.After all every one of us is a new comer here at one time or other.And there is a catch here.I do not fancy the idea of blindly supporting a new comer if the discussion raised by him is of good quality.It will set a bad example and encourage him to make more trivial discussions.Supporting the best discussions alone will improve the standard and quality of this place regardless of whether it is coming from an old hand or a novice.

Personally, I feel the number of responses is related to the active level of the member. I do not consider myself a new member, yet, I do not get as much responses as some new member. Having a lot of friends help provided you responded in kind. I am not saying all friends have this expectation, but I feel that most friends respond in kind.

Yes, we should be responding. About a year ago this was my mission, but have been sidetracked with it and really want to get back into it. I remember when I first started here and no one would respond to my discussions. I hope other mylotters will do the same thing!

Well, I reply to discussions that I can relate to...so I don't really choose if the person who started the discussion is a newbie or not. But yeah, I get your point, and I think it'll be helpful to them as well if we would participate in their discussions.

Youre right. Although I got no time opening new discussions as I tried to respond to topics sent to me, by topics of interest. Maybe each member be sent a copy of all the new topics for discussions so that others can at least respond.

It is, I concider common curtiousy, but sometimes people just don't have the time to respond or maybe nothing nice to say. So I don't worry to much about it.

we should definitely encourage the new members here at mylot. New members are important to keeping the site going, and if enough people sign up, we may be able to start getting paid more for ours posts here in the future...

I choose a new lotter discussion based on it uniqueness which mean not a duplicate discussion to help them ignite their interest. So far it never helps me as some discussion started by newbie are often end up being deleted. Then, my points often decrease and i think for them to have many responses they should learn to add active friends before starting a discussion. the best way for them is to reply on the other member discussion to get familiar with the rules.

I agree with you whole heartedly and think you are very wise even though you are a newbie yourself. Welcome to Mylot you seem like you will be a valuable contributer and I hope you stay for a long time. I have been here three years and do not ever plan on leaving. It is a lot of fun here and I learn so very much.

There's one downside to relying on notifications. You don't even see discussions started by new members. I recently changed from not using notifications to using them, because I might miss something my friends posted or responded to. But the thing is, then I don't see anybody else's discussions. Used to be, when I had time, I'd would go over to the 'no responses' tab and see if there was anything interesting there. But the first responder here is right too. I'm not going to respond to a discussion if it's the same thing I've seen over and over and over again or if it's a topic I just have nothing to say about.

well i feel they should think it over and take advice from the older ones thats been here. get lots of friends, have and think about interesting subjects, speak/type as though you are really talking with interest,dont expect everyone to just jump on dumb posts like what color you like and what toothpaste you use all these things. when i was new not many responded. you have to build character here. so thats what i think. all these will get you responses. so, no, i dont feel like we need to baby along/cater to new ones that are not putting thought into their discussions.

I am like most I answer the discussions that interest me. I really don't look to see if they are new or not if the discussion interest me I will answer it. So to answer a discussion because the person is new I won't unless it does interest me. I have started discussions and only had maybe 5 people who had answered. This didn't discourage me it made me think about how to write better and choose better topics.

hello suesan, It depends on their topics, they should more creative, or better yet respond first to so many discussions before they can make their own. i kept telling that to newbies before but i don't know what happened to them. some are just plain dumb and stubborn, hate to be told what to do when you are actually helping them. my account is decieving but i've been here for a year, the old account got deleted due to violations

yes i agree with you you know i referred a person and made a discussion but did't get any response in mylot so he decided to quit doing mylot and when i was checking my referrals earning then i saw him and i asked him the reason of not using mylot then he said that no one response to my discussion then i encouraged him by doing responsed to his discussion and from that day i am responding to each and every discussion started by a newbie or somone whose post less , this will help them to make good post and with quality.