Discussions come and go

Agree. Several people have already made up several ideas. Including changing mylot in a forum and I hoped mylot would have made some changes in their recent update but it does not seem to be that way.

It's really good that you brought this up, Brotha. I've been wondering the same thing since it has become a trend that old discussions die, even the good ones because of the lack of respondents. I've noticed that most MyLotters reply to new discussions rather than old high ranking ones. Some users forget to check past discussions they responded to for possible replies, and because of this the opportunity and possibilty to make threads more thorough and in-depth becomes brink. I think it should be emphasized to MyLotters that we can still earn credit from placing our opinions on these old discussions and not merely from the newly posted ones.

If you want to keep a discussion available for longer, you need to make responses or comments on the responses. The discussions with the most recent activity (responses and comments) appear in the list of 'Recent' discussions. The other way is to have a good list of friends who are interested in the topics you want to discuss and will tend to give good responses. People can find their friends' discussions either in their profiles or on the 'friends started' tab. Be selective about your choice of friends. Invite those who tend to give good responses on topics on which you share an interest.

They stay up longer than twenty four hours as long as a sufficient amount of responses are given to those discussions...consistently over the next few days. I've seen discussions stay on the ten main pages for four days straight before. It's just that...that's one discussion out of ten pages, or a couple out of ten pages, and you'd sortof have to go through them all in order to find them again.

Yes. Discussions seem to disappear after 1 to 2 days. Sometimes though, the discussions with the most comments are not the most interesting. Some are not even good enough to warrant them being in the "today's top" section. Because of the thousands of discussions in mylot, we really cannot keep track of all of them or maybe even just half.

That why its important to put a tag on it. To make it easier to find when we do some searching. Because everyday theirs so many new post its hard to tract old ones. And to give way for new ones they archive our thread. But if you have followers its easy just turn on your email. And you receive email every time theirs a new response in your thread.

Oh my goodness! No-one has mentioned the 'similar discussions' list on the right --- of every discussion that is open. Discussions do not disappear if they have the correct tags and if the user who posted them goes back and keeps the comments updated. Every time that a discussion receives activity of any kind then it goes to the TOP of that list. This is where tagging is important. There are many of us who have discussions that were posted originally over a year ago but they keep appearing there because we go and revive them. Then newer users who did not see them first time round get a chance to respond on them too. There are so many tabs here on myLot and not only 'top', 'hot' and 'recent' which should be explored. When we add friends they have a profile and thyere we can find a complete list of their discussions which never get buried if we have time to look for them too.

hi brotha but you can go into people's profiles and bring up their older discussions. I have made a lot and find some of my really old' discussions have had people respond to them lately so I don't know if they were just looking them up from my profile or what. but thats one way of finding older discussions. some of my earlier ones I feel could really be deleted as they evidently were not interesting for whatever reason. I never had a discussion that did not get a few responses./em]

Mylot is full of discussions and as a result any discussion gets old pretty fast. But I have observed that most of the discussions in the mylot are not worth getting in depth. But yes there are some which can be analyzed in detail. I think mylot should add an feature that puts worthwhile discussions in one place.

Your discussion will always appear when there are lots of responses every now and then. And if a topic is really interesting there are lots of people who will response and once it will be responded, it will appear again. I think mylot has keep up all good discussions, you can find it in the Top Discussion of the Day. If you are going to read the FAQ you will learn a lot of things specially if you are new here.

hi there, when you go less number of responses your discussion will definitely disappear in your homepage, but if you have good discussion and have a great nubmer of response. you will not disappear and will be placed in top. the challenge is to get more responses thus making quality and good discussions.. there are lot of discussion that you can participate here.. enjoy...

Hello, and welcome to MyLot. Each time a discussion gets a response, it rises to the top of the list again, even after a year or more, so discussions don't just disappear without trace. You can always use the search facility to find discussions again, and you should certainly use it to check before starting new discussions to make sure there is not already one similar to the one you wish to post. Duplicate discussions are deleted, so it's not a good idea to restart one.

ithink tahts normal in every discussion on a forum , where alot of participation from its member both in giving an opinion or a new posting so tthis is always happening

I was on mylot years ago, all the time they said they were going to make things better and easier, etc. Don't hold your breath. Just enjoy. This isn't a place to make alot of money. The best thing I did in the past was make friends on mylot. If you are looking for more, mylot isn't going to give it you.