Now I find it easier to respond than to start

I have always been more of a responder here. I only start when I can come up with a topic, which in my case is quite rare due to my lack of creativity, I guess... In the beginning, I even read more than I post here; I was just so keen in reading the discussions and ran out of time before making posts. But now I try to respond and comment more as I am reading the discussions...

Welcome to mylot! That's just how it is here, at least that's how it was for me as well. Like you, I was usually more into starting my own discussion than joining in others' but now I frequent in others' discussions and rarely start my own, seeing as most topics discussed are interesting and fun.

I have always found it to be easier to respond than start a discussion. It takes a little more creative juice for me to start a discussion that most people can relate to. If I do start a discussion, I am hoping I have responses from people that understand the discussion. I know I am talking to an international community, and I want to talk to people on their level. I guess we are all trying to see what we have in common as well as not in common which makes it interesting.

Being Mylotter for more then 3 year, and I only have about 10% of my own discussion since the beggining. Its clearly explain that I'm a responder rather then a starter.

Hello Harold, There are times I just want to response to others topics and no mood in starting my own discussions.But there were times I'm having difficulty responding to any discussions and I prefer starting my own. It depends on my mood anyway! But the thing here I never get tired reading topics.No matter I respond nor I will start my own I'm enjoying myself reading those topics of my interest! Good day Harold!

Youre right, for me it easier to respond that to start a discussion because there are times that I want to start a discussion then searched to the previous discussion found out that somebody already had before it, I got disappointed and sad.

Aha! Me too! i would have more responses to people's discussions than my own discussion i started. I wondder why there are times i am unable to think of topics or discussions to start here on mylot. It is not so bad anyway, to be responding to people's discussion as some are really good and great. on bad days, i would even be on mylot and unable to even answer some discussions... it is really something about one's mood i guess at the time they are posting. he he

I would definitely say I've been much more of a responder than a creator in my time here on MyLot, however creating more discussions is something I think I would like to do, so the opposite of you!

It's been a while since I last started my own discussion. It's much less of a pressure to just post on someone else's topic, especially now, I have a fulltime job and it's very seldom that I visit mylot these days, with one or two posts, or none at all.

I find it both easy. I can say that I am earning much better when starting my own topic since I can easily respond to it. But, sometimes if I saw a lot of interesting topics then I prefer to respond than to start one. I am also inspired to respond more when I give myself a challenge to reach a certain number of post. Like now- I want to challenge myself that I should reach the 13K this month.

I have been a member of Mylot for about three years and have only started 2 or 3 discussions. I spend most of my time responding to other's discussions. I like it better for one thing it takes a lot of time if you start your own and then reply to every response. Also, I cant seem to come up with new topics, so I leave it to others.

It is very much easier to really just step into an already established discussion and add your own two cents right to it. There are many times where I think I sit there, intending to add something right into the conversation. Yet there are just some times where I am really unable to come up with anything that would translate into a good something. That is really just something about the ideas that I have. There are times where they can seem like good ideas. But how well do they translate into an actual discussion on this forum. It doesn't seem to translate well so I just leave it. Plus I think that actually starting a discussion requires a bit more work into this website and if you are just on here and off here a lot of the time, you might not want to take the time.

Well, I also think you're right about this. Find one or two sentences to be written in a discussion already started by others, is much more easy than create their own personal . I mean for example I would like to respond to at least 10 threads per day. But maybe in the course of the day I can create just one or two topics. Always on this that I now have a topic on which to write something.

hihi, and i know you will change one more time, you love to post your topics again. I think it is normal in here, mylot. In the beginning time, i just post my discussions only and i didn't have ideas for opening a new topic. Currently i do both, open topics and join others discussions and i find more fun with it.

I used to start discussion too, but nowadays, I never do. There are so many discussion that I feel I can say something about, that I never have the time to start any of my own. I think it is OK to do this as I don't think there's any great difference to adding something to an existing discussion as to starting one.. _Derek

Hi, good day. I usually like to start, but recently I also more enjoy to respond than to start. But it depends my mood:)

I often like to respond rather then to start. Sometimes I can't think of anything to say, and then instead of starting a meaningless discussion, I respond to multiple discussions that genuinely interest me.