What Am I Doing Wrong?

Don't worry too much. I rarely start discussions because I am not so courageous. Some people start discussions all the time about truly frivolous things and they get heaps of responses. Even my friends whom I most always respond to do not answer my discussions. So, I just go about my time here responding to others. I've been here for many years, post decent, well thought out relevant responses yet I am way behind others who started at the same tiome as me. I have no idea why it works out this way. Just keep doing your thing and try not to worry about the numbers. OK??

I don't think your doing anything wrong and I for one would be sad to see you go. I like you being here with us. I could have sworn you were on my friends list but I just realized your not and I sent you a request. I was wondering why I never saw your discussions and now I figured it out. I am very interested in your discussions, I think they are great!

I'm thinking If You're posting at the same time about the same subject as a bunch of other people on here,You're doing quite well to be getting "only" 9 responses..boredom seems to set in fairly quickly among Mylotters unless you have something original and interesting to talk about.Having a bunch of friends who you interact with and might in turn respond to your posts can help too..

Hello my friend NailTech Ji, I think you are doing the best. Slow and study wins the race is very pold saying. I am still in red against much more posting than you, and you are already in blue. So do not dishearten you an dyou keep marching like a soldier. May God bless You and have a great time

Your not doing anything wrong on here. Your post might not be interest to someone else that is why no one will comments on it. For me I am not posting many articles on here because I hardly think about good articles to post. So what I did was to comments on any articles that I am interested to comment about.

myLot is a complete package and posting discussions is just one aspect of it. Nine responses is not as bad as not having any. Perhaps you could give up posting topics for a while and concentrate on responding. You could even comment on responses posted by others to topics that are not posted by you. There is so much you can do here.

How many friends do you have? If you don't have a lot of friends, odds are not a lot of people are seeing your discussions. I answer all of my friend's posts before I go look to answer any other ones. I think I owe it to people on my friend list to do their's first. The more people on your friend list, the more replies you'll get. And if you think you have a lot and you're still not getting any replies, you might want to take a look at the people on the list. A lot of them probably aren't active. I have a lot of friends on my list, yet my last couple of discussions got less than fifteen. Sometimes what we are interested in just don't interest other people.

It takes a while to build up a following. Reply to discussions that interest you. Find people with the same interests and ask to be their friend. You will get more yeses if you have spoken to them a few times first. Once you have a large friend network, you will get tons of responses. But anyway, quality is more important than quantity.

Well, it doesn't look as if you had any trouble with this post. If things lag off again, try only starting one new discussion and then commenting several times on the discussions of others. Most myLotter will reciprocate when you comment on their post and if oyu only start one discussion a day it will make things easier.

I don't think you are doing anything wrong. I think you are seeing the results wrong. 9 replies is much better than a lot of discussions get! Don't give up, just keep posting.

Hi, don't give-up this site simply because you fell discourage by not gaining many response to your started discussion. I just visited your profile and opened some of your discussion and find no problems with the way you presented your view about the subject. Simply create a mind set that every discussion is worth responding and there is no such thing as dull discussion when it comes to myLot. I've got a three year old discussion started and some members are still posting their comments to it. I think there's always a right person to response to your discussion. See, I'm now the 2oth person who responded to your discussion. Keep your heads high and be proud to every discussion thread you make. Good luck.

I don't know. I wish myLot sent ALL responders a link to the Best-Response when you find one, `coz I'm curious too. The only thing I can think is to become 'friends with' (connections of, whatev ) people whose discussions you respond to (making sure you subscribe to all their new discussions, and hoping the connected people do the same for all your discussions), and keep on responding. And maybe base some of your discussions on 'ideas you get while responding to your friends.' But try not to start too many discussions-a-day ... do at least one-a-day, and more only if you're inspired to (i.e. don't try to do more than one). Good way to keep it low enough: respond to at least one friends' discussion for every discussion you start. And spend most of your time responding to friends' discussions.

I don't have many discussions going either don't feel bad. I guess I need to find a new way to start them so that they don't get pulled. Oh well will keep trying till I get the hang of it.

You have achieved this much is the sign that you are not wrong and you are right.

likely you are not doing wrong. i cant tell you how many times ive only gotten a few responses. sometimes not even 9. and lots of weeks i dont do over 3 or 4 discussions. most weeks i dont do any when someone does a bunch every day, i dont see how they can expect lots of responses on all or most of them.

Don't get yourself down. I had some posts not answered by people also. I must say that I didn't do enough, or my grammar or topic didn't attract people's attention. So, I might need to search more interesting topics, or I might need to improve my writing skills. Ultimately, I just want to make some money, and take this opportunity to improve my writing skills also.

You are not doing anything wrong. We all have bad moments and good moments, you know. My last few discussions doesn't have lots of responses, but I know once in a while I will have at least one which is more interesting. The reason is not you, there are a lot of factors effecting the success of our discussions.

It sounds to me like you are doing something right. I very seldom get nine posts to any of my discussions. I have recently had no responses to two of my discussions while others got one or two. Some have gotten about 9 or more but the average for me is between three and five. I do not take it personal. My discussions are original and thought provoking. Maybe not many people were interested in my topic. Maybe I posted it at a bad time of day. Maybe there other discussions posted that interested mylotters more. I am satisfied with what I do get.

I also just read in another discussion that interesting titles work. Something that gets attention or makes people curious. That might help. Like somebody else said I also look for discussions started by friends. I don't see anything wrong with your discussions. I think they've been interesting! I see you have a lot of positive feedback here, hope that makes you feel a little better. :-)

Well, in this discussion you now have 14 responses, unless someone gets theirs in before me, in which case you'll have 15! You're doing pretty good today!