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Well, this discussion also sound to be decent and yes, I do agree with you! Why do not you post something very DECENT!? You start and the others will follow!

Go to my page and you will find enough of them. There is not a single 'indecent' discussion there. Hope to see you there.

I have noticed this, too. Although the membership is growing by something like 50 a day (sometimes more, sometimes less), Alexa shows that unique page views have been declining steadily over the last year. I feel that many people who really appreciate (and post) good discussions have become disappointed with the site recently and spend less time here. I have found that I am spending more time reporting discussions that are definite violations and considering many more discussions that might be. Being critical of discussions and rating or reporting those that we don't consider are up to standard is part of the MyLot mechanism and is, I believe, vital to the health of the site. This, of course, takes time and that time is so much less time available for responding to good discussions. Of course, being critical is one side of the coin. The other side is to be positive about it and to make every effort (for those of us who can) to try to start good discussions but, sometimes, what seems as if it should be a good topic gets rather few good responses and the DO doesn't comment back, so the discussion loses way. Statements as 'discussions' are really in the same category as recipes, jokes and such like. They are very often found to be simply copied from some web page or other. We have had a spate of plagiarists recently (but MyLot have dealt with all of those that have been detected) and I was beginning to feel that it was just my perception of the site that was jaded. I am glad that others have noticed the drop in quality recently.

hi Benny... I agree with you that it takes a little while to find a real and decent discussion... Many times, I keep searching from this category to that and finally end up with nothing... And the single liners!! They have started flooding, I fear.. Just before 30 minutes while I was searching for a discussion, I found 4 single liner posts one over the other. I was stunned and couldn't think of anything, so simply changed the category... These post do not serve anything. Their authors post these, just to increase their count in order to make more money. I am sure this is not going to increase their earnings.. But flooding is still really harmful to the site... Something must be done!

So if there is a drop in 'decent' discussions, then one can assume that there are more 'indecent' topics? I honsestly have not noticed that trend - but then I don't go there (well not often ). I see what happens here every day, week and month and notice when users going missing and when new ones arrive. I try and throw a rope to some of the interesting new users and indeed there are many. There are also MANY new users who think that myLot is going to make them rich. I have seen many false promotions which I preume are enticing them here telling them all sorts of falsities Since Admin Alice has arrived things here are smoother. She lands wherever there is a problem but this could alsobe the reason why some of the older users are not posting now? Personally I am thrilled to see her on the boards and with her advice we can all get much more from our time spennt here - but sadly not many are noticing here. Oh I am not going to start anymore than I can cope with, which is on average, only one a week. I never see you on them much anyway even though they are not 'indecent'. As I said, I don't do 'indecent', well not in public

I've notice this too. So I have been trying to raise a few this past few days. Topics which are interesting to me. I was hoping to get a few others started. I think I've seen a few which are redundant, and I couldn't get myself to respond again. I guess I could if I just want to get my number rating high. Hopefully the veterans come back with interesting topics soon.

i was too busy even to respond...with children....their studies..now that i am free..i have started emptying my mailbox...and let me see what fresh thing pops up in my mind...to discuss...recently u need to think about the deleting of post...thats again a problematic thing...let me rub my brian...till that time i am responding

yeah i agree. no posting about stuff in the news, nothing under politics or day to day issues. theres one asking how you eat your fried chicken though! go figure that one out,

I certainly do agree with you, that it has been hard to find discussions that are interesting enough to respond to. Sometimes I have to look for awhile to find ones that I want to respond to. I have also noticed that a lot of so called discussions are nothing but statements like you said, and the sad thing of it is, the same users are posting those day in and day out and posting and posting like that everyday, all day. It is so frustrating too. Ween I see discussions like that, I just ignore them,a ss they really aren't discussions at all, and not worth my time. I agree that if users are going to start discussions, then make them discussions, and not just statements. They are only wasting their time by posting those anyway. Good luck to you and happy mylotting.

Hmmm, as far as i'm concerned i try to participate daily in the discussions.And when i have to be absent on some days, i make up for it by spending more time the next time i have the chance . Yes i notice some would just post discussions which are irrelevant to the topic at hand, that's very frustrating i know.Thinking of how you tried hard to present your thoughts only to find out that some didn't "feel" you at all.

i agree. that is very true. i have noticed that aswell. maybe some people are running out of things to say. it is hard to tell. but i am guessing there are alot of great questions the need some great answers to aswell. hope that there will be some better discussions up soon. i have been trying my best on writing quality discussions.

Actually composing a good topic of participation in any topic with creative view is not a easy task. Creativity and well compositional of matter with good presentation is very important for creating any good topics. A question arise here how much of us has the creative power? It is a literary task. And creation of topic in large scale is not easy. But we post after post without having creative power. So discussion are going boring day by day. There is a question always there in literary field. How much a creator can creates good topics. Always there is limitation. It is hard truth in creative field. Stagnancy is always there. But here we don't want to consider this matter. So we find numbers of single lined discussion. Like quiz many of us post discussion with a single line question. Some time we feel whether we are participate in any quiz competition. Second problem is with repeated of same topic and discussion. Most of the repeated discussion are posted here daily basis. It is really boring to attend repeated topics. People find scarcity of topics. So we find here discussion with complain. So time it like are we opening complain box. We can see many discussion based on complain. How much we read complain based discussion.It looked like that people are struggling with topics. So they want to find complain as a matter of topics. Some other want to create gimmicks with complain. Normally gimmicks are attraction of common people. And complain is best way to create gimmicks. All those happening here are not suitable for the genuine people. You are fight in your view that it is very hard to find decent topic here in mylot.

According to you the discussion is not getting seriously it is true friend but what to do all this happen

I have posted some good decent discussions and I do not get any responses so I now just respond to discussions and yes there are quiet less number of discussions which I would want to respond to.

i have noticed that too that there just isn't a lot of discussions that make you want to jump right in and be a part of them and i try to add something, but i may at sometimes have gone into a statement or maybe tell a story just to make my point, but i always try at some point in a discussion to put it into some form of a question at some point in the discussion. It is a little hard at times to come up with something that someone else hasn't already covered. It is a rare thing these days to come up with some fresh ideas that will catch others attention, so if you can do that you have accomplished something right there. I'm sure if we all work together and put our minds to it we can come up with some worthwhile discussions it will just take some time.

I can't help to agree. I just want to blink or say something really snarky. But, I'm good at holding my tongue against those people. Quite often if I see replies to those type of "discussions" The first thing I see in them is 'thanks for the information'. But, that's all it is information.... that's something I would expect in an answer to a discussion not as a discussion-starter.

I know what you mean about statements being posted instead of discussions. Those types of discussions that really invite no answers because there is nothing to answer at all. I see a lot of them here. Mostly the one-liner ones.

It depends on the topic of discussion benny, is there a particular topic you want to discuss? If it coincides with my interests, I'd love to discuss! =D