No Responses

I have no idea what those people do to get so many responses but I'm with you. I write something legit asking a question and lucky to get one or 2 answers the I see a discussion like "What kind of toilet paper do you use" with like 25 responses so I'm confused as well. I guess every forum is different.

The things that do not appear to be interesting to some people are of some interest to others, so it all depends on if people are interested in the discussion or not.I also think that it varies as well,as to how many people that are on here and notice a discussion that has been put up.

Welcome to Mylot dear Godloves! Basically it is the active participation and responding to many a people genuinely makes you popular on this site and if you are sincere and hard worker then you can post some interesting posts which will attract many members towards you, who in turn can become friends of yours and with their help you can have better response for your initiated topic! But in spite of having many friends on this forum can you believe I a having about 16 discussions with me which have attracted no friends of mine so far, i posted a discussion about these discussions, which we call as topics with o response, some few weeks back, fortunately I was lucky enough to get few responses for this topic. Personally I feel that the people here on this forum avoid participating in some serious discussions or in the discussions which requires some reference material. After he hectic days work I think most of the people here come to have some nice time to relax and enjoy, so these people must be avoiding this type of discussions. Next point is time of posting a discussion. If a discussion is posed at wrong time, where there is no proper rush on this forum then there are every chances that your discussion might have reached deep down at the bottom and got covered by many other discussions! So we have to be careful in posting our discussions. Postings at the week ends and also during the festivals also may not attract lot of responses as this is the time when many of us like to enjoy these days by going out, so we can avoid to post our discussion during this period. If you take the above said factors into the consideration and post your discussion I am sure you are going to have a good number of responses! Other wise also, no responses are part and parcel of the game, don't get dishearten about these discussions and keep on posting sincerely without getting discouraged! Thanks for the discussion and All the best!

godloves- Lamb said it best, the more friends you have the more responses. However, this is true if their notifications are turned on or they go looking each day for "friends started". I do not have my notifications on for every friend because I use my email for all my business correspondances and if I had all of my friends turned on every day I'd have a lot of email! I don't want to think about what would be there when I came back from the weekend. I do however check each working day to see who is in the "friends started" and try to answer each one that I can or have information on. Sometimes it is a matter of content. Some people simply do not know about a topic and will avoid it because well there is nothing they can add to the discussion. They are actually doing you a favor because they are following the guidelines. If they posted irrelevant information it hurts them and could have a negative impact on your own thread if administration decided the topic was a repeat, etc. One of the things I've been working on is getting to know people so that I can build an email mailing list. You'll notice at the top of each discussion you can send an email out. You will need to know the user's actual email to do so but once you do you can send friends on Mylot a private email notifying them of your thread. I have done this several times with interesting threads I've come across that I know some of my own friends will want to comment on. I'm still building my email mailing list so even I don't have that many. I wouldn't worry though about how many people respond to your threads. Yes it can develop dialogue but sometimes you end up with just one-liners that do not provoke any sort of real discussion. I'd rather have five or six good responses then 20-50 poor ones. Namaste-Anora

All my fellow myLot members explained it well above, however I wanted to add that sometimes it is a matter of timing. There are so many members on here form all parts of different countries. So sometimes you can post and the regular people may not be logged on at the moment. But as the lamb explains above I have a great many friends on my list and when I start a discussion they may not respond right away as they may not be on or limited to timing so eventually they do respond. I have a great many of them that respond even after a week later that I started the discussion.

maybe their popularity?^^ also maybe thats bcs they think that discussion is interesting^^ we all have different things that we like so :) maybe thats why. anyway right now im already answering your discussion so one answer you already have^^ try to go to a theme here and post discussions there^^ if people start to know your discussions you will have a lot of answer :) this is also about popularity :) you are just new here for what i see so dont worry for sure a lot of people will start to answer to your discussions :) choose themes and create discussions there :) you can post discussions in love and life themes ^^ just try and see^^

Hi godloves, respond to more discussions and request users whose discussions interest you. After your user name happens to occur in different topics of discussions of the same persons, very often they may have interest to add you I suppose. Therefore other than writing new discussion it's nice for us to participate in others interesting discussion as well. I believe having more good friends here one's discussion would receive more responses. Anyway the interesting of the topic plays an important role to engage users to join in the discussion for sure. it would be a challenge or fun as well to see whether there is any clue to cope with discussion with zero responses. I will give up if I really don't have any idea to answer, or I totally don't have any knowledge to cope with the discussion. Wish you all the best and have fun posting here frequently Have a nice day

I just posted in yours would you care to post in mine? just kidding. Well, you've heard it from the vets. been on the same boat as you are in now. Bottom line is, don't get discourage when you don't get a lot of responses, just think that there are other discussions to start with. I just started a discussion yesterday and unfortunately I have not gotten a single response yet , and i thougth i have a lot of friends here .

I think you have to have a lot of friends here, friends usually help you in your started discussions and with so many friends i don't think not one or two will be most likely to be interested with your discussions. So when they do see that it's a good topic then they will respond to it. And make sure you do start discussions with good quality so that many will be interested even those that are not in your friends list.

With the older posters they have a lot more friends so every time a friend starts a discussion an email is sent out and they are notified so they can rely on many of their friends replying to their topics and also a few others(if the topic is easy). With time it grows and gets easier to get some responses. Add a picture here and start to post more and build up a MyLot rating. Best of luck.

you're right. i also wondering why.