MyLot Discussions!!!

Maybe the starter of the discussion doesn't come back and comment on the responses? That is what keeps a discussion alive and kicking and every time it receives any activity it will appear in the 'recent' tab and in the 'similar topics' to the right It is up to the user who started it to keep it going. They can do that just by adding a comment. I have some of mine from years ago that still keep going just because each time they receive a response or a comment from a user I go back to them. More users, who might have joined myLot after they were first posted and be unaware of them, will then see them and might respond.

Maybe because when you get a very long discussion it branches out an idea for a new discussion so instead of continuing it into the old one, some people make a new discussion for that topic..

I think we usually go for "top discussions", "recent discussions", "new discussions", "friends started".. And so on. All of the discussions that show up on those pages, are organized by the time in which someone last responded, best to my knowledge. I like responding to active discussions, rather than discussions from 2-3 years ago that only have a few responses. Because you know, then, that the person who started the discussion probably isn't active here anymore and won't respond back (which is what makes everything interesting if you ask me). Occasionally I'll search for a particular topic that hasn't been talked about in a few years..And end up responding. It would be nice to have an extra tab, maybe, such as super popular ones from years ago that are now inactive..*shrugs*.

There are just times when there are few people logged in myLot. If you wanna get a lot of responses to your discussion, take the time and calculate when is there too many people here and when is it too few. Then post a discussion when you think there are too many logged in user. The only downside is you'll be competing with the others' discussions as well so you better make an interesting one and just make it simple. I find it that there seem to be more replies to discussions that are simple to understand but interesting at the same time.