No one responds to my discussions

Hello russell_21, There are several reasons for your discussion not getting responses and the most prominent one may be they don't find your discussion to be interested one.Try to be more descriptive and try to be more realistic on the discussion.Make as much friends you can and involve in the interaction with them its sure once they will identify you and know you by your user name definitely they would come up to your each discussion.

hi russell I checked some of your discussions and honestly I noticed most of the time you only comment back to 2 or 3 of the responses and sometimes you didn't even reply to any of the responses..like this discussion of yours http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/2615173.aspx?p=2 you received many responses here and most are really good responses but you only reply to 3 of them..that will "turn off" some of our fellow mylotters and if they noticed that is always the case in your discussions they will tend to ignore your new discussions later on. This is really important for you too because through commenting back you will earn more and you will be more familiar with our fellow mylotters if you have longer conversation in your discussion. Adding some friends also helps since some of our fellow mylotters don't have much time to spend in mylot and just check and response on the discussions of their friends. I believe Putting your discussion in the right interest and giving it the proper tags can also helps. And of course an interesting topic and an interesting title is also important if you want your discussion to receive many responses.

Yes I have often received surprisingly low participation in my discussions. The answer when that happens is to keep prodding and poking. I recommend you get busy responding to discussions started by your friends. Help your friends be aware of your efforts on mylot.

I looked at all 20 of the discussions you have started (your profile says that you have started 21 but only 20 appear when looking at 'discussions started') and NONE of them have no responses, though a few only have one or two. If a discussion is to earn the name of 'discussion', you should always make a point of replying to ('commenting on', in MyLot terminology) the responses you get. If you simply say something like "Thanks for responding", that effectively closes any further discussion and doesn't add anything at all. You should always try to actively promote your discussion by having something more to say which encourages those who have taken the trouble to respond to say more. If you don't (or can't) do this then you should ask yourself whether the topic was worth discussing in the first place!

Don't feel bad my friend. I do have some old discussions that have no responses. After seeing them not yet responded even after a year, i requested them to be deleted.

You should create an attractive title and a discussion which makes sense. Try to make a discussion where mylotters can give opinions to have sharing of ideas to make the discussion keep going. Try to create it in a friendly manner and remember to create a discussion where many of the people here in mylot can relate. Make a discussion in a good manner to convey the attention of the mylotters. This discussion you've created is really good. This makes mylotters attracted to your discussion. I hope my opinion helps you and have a nice day mylotting. Happy new year russell.

i think what you can do is to make people want to respond to those discussions. more often, i see or recognize that people responds to the discussions that are more personal where they can give insights, or their suggestions or opinions about a certain situation or event. =)

May be the topics u now started didn't have much to respond to. Or maybe none were interested in them. But it's very unlikely not to have any response at all. My worst record is I got just one response to a discussion. and best is just 14 hehee:) don't worry I've responded now! let's drag this conversation till 100th page lol

hi russel __21 one hint do you faithfully comment back on the responses you did get in your other discussions? if not people get teed off after awhile as I know i do to respond and respond to some people's discussions and never get a comment back at all from the discussion maker.so sometimes I just do not respond and if you did this to a lot of people they might just decide you did not want to really make a disscussion and comment back and make it a real discussion.think about it if you have had a lot of responses and you did n ot comment back at all you missed making good earnigns and too you could have pissed off a lot of users who want comments back on their responses.

Dude, you have more responses to this post than me when I was at the same situation at some time ago. Not sure if it's all about luck or people's interests at one point or another. But having no responses to your posts doesn't really mean no one's reading your post. It only means maybe when some of those reading your post just doesn't have anything to say at the moment and later on just totally forgets about it altogether. It happens. Since you're new to mylot, you will have one of the best digesting experience here from real people. I know I read a lot of the posts here and just digest them, and sometimes I just don't have anything to share. Rest assured whenever I get the chance I will read your posts. cheers.

Sorry if I didn't respond to your discussion. It can happen if: 1. I didn't understand your topic or too heavy 2. Your discussion not catch my interest Note: this apply to everyone, not just you ... If you need some tips, I can give some but not guarantee can work for you 1. Attractive title. Some people need that 2. Don't make too heavy discussion 3. make a lot of friends. Sometimes your friend can reply your discussion easily (your discussion came to their email directly) 4. When you respond/comment, do it in fun way .... a lot of people like that I hope these gonna help, cheers

Dont worry buddy.. Its may happen. Its very simple that people do not have idea about your topic and they dont have much knowledge about it. Here, every one is trying to discuss and share. But if the topic is too hard or if we dont have any idea, then we cant response. May be you start a topic with a very new things, then it would be problem to get response as most of users will not be familiar to that. Dont think that you will not get response. Still I have lot of posts from where I get response and comment though those are 2-3 months old. So keep patient and do my lotting. Cheers

I ever faced the same thing as you. It was happen on the early time I join at Mylot, I feel so shy and annoyed at that time, but after I thought more. It is caused of I'm new here and don't have any friends yet, my discussion is not specific, too bored and not good enough to be responded. So, I tend to respond more discussion and make few new discussion. I'm trying to conveying my discussion in the most simple, interesting and clear one to be understood other. Keep trying and you'll be better

As a friendly advice, I have these tips to you: 1. Widen your interests so that you can post discussions on varied topics. You may want to observe top topics on the "today's top", "recent" or "hot" tab so that you may have an idea what topics interest most of the mylotters here. 2. Post discussions with headings that clearly indicate what issues you are raising about. Your description should indicate a short narrative of how you were able to come up with the issue. There are also issues that need clarification or limitation of the scope of the discussion. Your judgement on this area will definitely be appreciated so that you can receive relevant responses. 3. Get acquainted with the discussion guidelines so that you can be properly guided on what and what not to post. 4. While mylot admin has liberal stand on the writing style, I find it necessary that discussions be well-written for clarity of thought. Sometimes, I get confused in the middle of the discussion when I read ineffective sentence structure. Hope these help.

Good day russell_21, I think the most important thing in getting more responses to your discussions is to make sure you put in lots of tags so the discussion will come up in a lot of different searches. Also make sure when you post a discussion you are asking some questions to people have something to answer to you in their response. If someone reads a discussion and they aren't asked for their input in some way then they don't have anything to say to you. Another way to get more responses is to have a lot of friends on your friend list. And make sure you have your notify buttons turned on. That way you get all of your friends discussions and they get all of yours, in your email box. That way your discussion gets read at least by your friends and then they can respond to it. I had a friend on my list of friends that started too many discussions for me to keep up to her so I had to get rid of her. I don't want a friend that just keeps posting and posting discussions and doesn't have the time to comment back to my responses so make sure you do that too. Let me know you took the time to bother to read what I posted by commenting something to me. So make sure you post things that people can post back by answering a question you post. And make sure you tag them good. Cheers and happy mylotting my friend , chris

Hi Russel... I know how its feel at the beginning I made few discussion who attract only few response from others member. I had to admit myself I am not really good in making the interesting one. So I spend my time here try to find discussion I capable to answer and interesting one. I find its not easy to making discussion that's can attract many response but I think the longer you will getting better in making one, like this one made it into mylot digest . There is certain fun when you can made a discussion that's entered the digest because its mean your discussion is popular .

well, yes sometimes it happens that nobody responds to one or more of our discussions..it's okay if there is one but if there are more of it..we feel kind of sad or annoyed about it..it is a common and normal reaction and feeling for us..i have one discussion that don't have any respond..it feels kind of sad when nobody cares to answer or reply to discussions we started but for me i just don't expect a lot and i condition myself before hitting the "start" of my discussion that if ever nobody replies i won't feel bad about it but i will just move on and start other discussions later and in the future..i guess it depends on what you start or talk about if it is interesting or if a lot of people can relate to it..but don't try too hard to please people just so you will get a respond but just be yourself and just say, share what you feel and want to talk about...that is all there is to it..

for me, my feelings would depend on how important the discussion is and how bad i really want answers to my questions. Thankfully, my advice seeking discussions have always been responded. I don't really care how many as long as i gain more information. To avoid that kind of situation, I start discussions that everybody can relate to. Talking about your life alone is rather boring, unless if you had a really interesting story to tell where many people can learn a lot from your experience. Whenever I start discussions, I always prepare myself for situations like no responses or flames. Then I type down. I don't really mind if no one responses because I enjoy writing and expressing myself while getting paid for it, even though it's just a few cents. If earnings were based on how many responses you get, well, that would be the time that i get depressed when i don't get many responses.

I am so sorry Russell, maybe bcz your discussion did not appear on my main page. I'd be gladd to respond your discussion. Umm... try to use an interesting topic, sometimes I use a silly subject to attract my friends to respond my discussion.

I am new here and it is ok if your discussions are not being answered at first. I think that people have to get to know you some. and I see that you are some what of a new user as well. Dont let it discourage you. It will pick up. Keep a positive outlook. Plus, it does not hurt to start a discussion with, "no one responds to my discussions". :) Have a great day. :) :) :)