What's a good rule of thumb for posting discussions on MyLot?

I understand what you're saying. But some of those people that do start many discussions are here a lot more then we are. They will start discussion after discussion and will most likely respond to the responses. I agree that creating multiple discussions is not going to make you more money. But I do believe that they spend countless hours here. And if thats what makes them happy, then let them be. I have a few friends here that post lots of discussion, but they do respond to the responses they get.

If you want to stop receiving the notifiers from those friends who start too many topics, you don't have to remove them from your list. You can just put the notifier off. Go to their username on your friend list and you will find it there. They mostly don't even bother reading the responses so there is no point in wasting time telling them to stop. It is the last days of the month and they probably are convinced that they are earning like that. How wrong they are!

There really is not a magic number as to how many discussions one should start in one day. It depends on what is being posted. It is possible to post 10-15 discussions in a row that are high quality and interesting to respond to; however, it is far more likely that someone posting that many discussions back-to-back isn't posting the most interesting discussions and is, instead, just basically spamming the feeds in the misplaced belief that (s)he is going to earn a lot of money by doing so. I would say that the guideline should be that one puts a reasonable amount of thought and effort into each discussion one starts and should return to the discussion in order to respond to any responses on the discussion as well as go visit discussions started by others on the site. If one is doing this, it is unlikely that one will be pretty much posting discussions back-to-back and filling up the feeds--not even if one does spend much of one's day on myLot.

You need not delete a friend but you can go to that friend's ID in your friends' list and disable 'notify on'. Sometime ago I received more than 50 such notifications from a single 'friend'. They were getting downloaded with such speed that I felt as though there was some kind of virus on my pc! Needless to say I disabled the notify on!

I don't know if there are a certain amount that we should or should not post a day but personally I only post like 2-3 a day. Some days I don't start any discussions and if there is a lot going on that I want to talk about I might start 2 or 3 per day...It all depends, but I never start as many as you mentioned in a day. I start a few at most and I respond to all of those before I start another one...

If you go into your preferences, I think you should be able to adjust it.

hi p;hillydreamer we should not make more discussions than we can have time to comment back to allour many resp onses as we do not' get paid for t heir responses bu t then we must type comments back to all our responders or we make just a penny or two om those discussions,for me I am on all day so I can have two or three discussions going but also I must have time to respond to others also.otherwise with a lot of discussions done in one day no way would I be able to comment back to all those responses and thats part of making a good discussion,

That is so silly someone will start so many discussion in a day, while majority of the discussion are just rubbish and low quality discussion topic with plenty of personal rants and gibberish setences. It usually happen when a newbie thinking that the more discussion she can post in a day, the more money she can earn, it is just frustrating to have all these many Mylot notification in my inbox jamming the smooth loading of my webpage. Usually I just go ahead and delete this joker from my friend list, if there is too many discussion notification from him /her in a day. Even telling them will not stop them from posting more nonsense up in Mylot, i will say just forget about telling this particular individual the rule since it is most likely she is too ignorant to read and understand simple logical conduct.

it can be annoying at times to be flooded with those notifications but as mysdianait said, there is an option. don't you think it's an experiment for these people? i had seen such trend before and the person grew tired, i guess, posting too many discussions in a day. perhaps it was discovered that nothing had contributed dramatically to the earnings.

I've read through this thread and I agree. So I won't repeat all the points you guys make, except to say I'm a newbie and I've noticed this problem too :/ Now, wouldn't it be a good idea if the culprits read this thread and take note of all the discussions? I can only hope, lol!

Hello Phill, I know what you exactly talking about.. They just create random discussions which they thought that people will respond to it and make more money.. A good discussion is where the topic you're talking about is open.. in another word is that everyone can respond to it.. Furthermore,discussion about others' opinion also will at least attract people to respond.. An interesting topic that you need to choose is mainly about what is people talking right now.. When people know what is the discussion is all about... then they will participate in it.. :) Like this one for example..:P