Can U predict the number of Responses for ur Discussions

I have let this discussion slip far too long now so I must provide my opinion I care less about the number of responders I get from a discussion but I really don't want to have a zeroed one. For me a discussion with zero responses means two things. One is that nobody knows the answer or how to answer your discussion and two it's not that interesting. Anyway I certainly cannot predict the number of responses and or responders I will get in a discussion I made. Mainly because all discussions in here are open and will still be available if I'm long gone here and people can resurrect this discussion and respond to it. Somehow I can predict a few and is very accurate. I can predict that every discussion deleted will never be responded by anyone again or would not see the light of day again and that's a fact Amazing right that I'm very accurate on this one

Everything depends on who are responding, if they are responding at all. There are some who will return to comment back on your comments. That helps the discussion to get among the top or hot discussions and that I believe really boosts the responses. On the other hand if people respond and forget about your discussion straight away, then too bad. Having a lot of friends also, to a certain level, ensures that you get quite a few responses. I usually expect somewhere around 20 responses to my discussions which hardly are any good. But once when I was new in here, I started a discussion about whether people use alarm clocks to wake up and it received huge number of responses. I have no idea how such a dull topic got so many responses.

It is really hard for me to predict as to how many responses I can get from my post. In fact, I think most of us will not be able to do so. In my case, it will be more difficult since I do not start a discussion often. Most of what I do is just respond considering that I do more of responding to post rather than starting one.

Hi, sunnycool. No, I can't predict how many responses that I may get for my discussion. I can only guess. Certain discussions only get a certain amount of responses because of its subject. I agree that with GoAskAlice, that we can't predict how many responses she will get for her discussions, because many people continue to post and post..

I have absolutely no idea what kind of discussions will get a lot of responses and which ones won't, and I have given up trying to figure it out. From past experience, I can predict that my discussions will usually get between ten and twenty responses, but many of these responses will have several comments in each response box. To me, that is more important and makes a discussion more successful than one that receives fifty to a hundred responses without any back and forth interaction or even a response from the original poster of the discussion. I just post whatever strikes me at the time and hope that other people find it interesting and want to talk about the subject. I do not do as much posting of my own discussions as I do responding to other people's discussions. I would think that fact would make it more likely that people would respond to my discussions when I do decide to post one, especially since I do not start several discussions in one day and I comment back to all my responders. That does not seem to be the case, however. I have noticed several people that start a bunch of discussions, do not reply to many people (if any) that respond to those discussions, and are not very active on the boards, and yet their discussions get a ton of responses. Therefore, I have given up trying to figure out what makes a discussion "good" or how people decide on which discussions they will reply.

Hi Sunny, I am not so good in predicting my posts turn out. i am not in money making discussions that did set a trend of having so many responses. maybe you can tell me more how to attract more responses. i am sure you know me by now what types of discussions i used to make and my line up of interest. i admmire you for having that realization about the turn out of your discussions.

Mylot is full of mysteries. I can never predict the outcome of my discussions. But so far I am happy with the number of responses I received from well meaning friends who are well behind the success of my discussions. They are there regardless of rain or shine and for that reason my discussions rarely get less than 2 pages of responses.

I can never predict my responses. Sometimes the discussions I start that I think are great hardly get any responses at all and the ones I think will be a flop have a pretty good turnout. I love unexpected responses..lol.

I cannot predict my post sometime it don't get response from other maybe it not informative or somewhat. I'm not expecting, I just hope and try to manage all of my responses or comments.

I can't say I can predict the exact number of responses but I can often tell whether or not there are people that would bother dropping by my posts and comment. I made a discussion about a particular Hollywood controversy, which I predicted would generate tons of responses. It turned out to be one of my hottest discussions here.

I dont think so. I got 45+ responses in a discussion I was expecting just about 20! And it was not about make money. It was about how my papa. :) Birbal's logic - put an estimate - if you get more than estimate - mylotters are conspiring to prove you wrong. If you get less than estimate, again they are conspiring to prove you wrong. LOL.

i cannot predict the number of responses who will answer my discussion but i am sure sometimes i had 30 and above responses to mostly easier question that are not complicated.

...Hi sunnycool, You are quite correct, that you cannot predict how many responses will be generated by a particular subject. The entire thing is subjective. A topic that you, starting a discussion, think would be a very interesting subject, gets no attention, something else gets massive responses. There was a question about eating ice cream in winter, that many people wanted to respond to, which shocked the person who started the discussion that so many people wanted to talk about it. You never know. I would say, just keep posting things that you think would be of interest to others. There is no science involved. "o) Take care. .

I think there are some topic that will attract more people to response.Such as making extra money or mylot stuffs as you have mentioned from above.But still,I think people need to be creative and make their topice a bit more interest not just on the title itself,but also in the content of the topic as well.Because there are already many duplication of topic in mylot already.people may take a look in the content to choose something better for their response.I would recommend that post a picture is also important as well for it will make people feel that your topic is an interesting one in the first sight.It is true that mylot is a place to earn a few dollars but I think there are still many people in mylot who just want to have fun and won't mind about that few bucks as well.Actually ,we all know that that few bucks is not easy to earn anyway.Happy mylot and have agood day.

off course we can not predict because it depends how interesting the topic and the mood of another member here.

I think to an extent you canpredict the number of responses your discussionwould recieve.I say so because if you are reviewing a site whichis quite familiar among others but you have no knowledge of it, its pretty sure you will have lots of responses.Another post of which even you are quite confused and requires an expert to answer, your post would rarely be answered. What i mean is that not an exact number, an approximate to be frank.