So how long can you go on?

My favourite discussion, and the one with probably the most activity if all the responses and comments were added up, went on and on and on and still gets a new addition once in a while. It was not something contoversial at all. It was about getting the last word and because many of those who participated were wanting to get it, they kept coming back and adding some more. At the moment it has 68 responses but it is the comments in the long chains back and forth in every box that were really fun. The first box alone has ... lots of comments by many different Lotters. I lost count trying to count them all so you can see for yourself here http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/2535301.aspx

I think that it is good when you feel as though you can talk to somebody for a long time without running out of things to say. One of the people that I can talk to in this way is my best friend. Sometimes when I call her we can talk to each other for hours, and then even when we put the phone down we will still be thinking about the things that we wanted to say but forgot about. I think that being able to talk for this long shows that you are good friends, and we should consider ourselves lucky to be able to have these types of friends.

Hello... The longest one that I've seen was 'controversial', no doubt... It was started by a Spammer, whose account had got deleted... She created a new account and began cribbing... Many myLotters, tried to soothe and calm her down, but it went on and on; until I fell asleep... I don't know what happened then... The discussion became big, because of the posts and sub posts and sub sub posts....

To answer your question I think it's all in the writing skills or the knowledge behind it. A lot of people can go on and on, droning on so to speak, but only people who.. connect here can really keep talking, laughing, discussing. It has been awhile since I've seen a very long discussion, with many many responses and comments on top of comments. As for how long have I discussed something? Here I can't really say, nor really offline either, but I imagine two or three hours is the record when it comes to outside of mylot.

I think it would be the one I have with one of the members on here. She and I discuss the subject of the discussion and then we will just converse between us. It probably continues for thirty or so responses,

I have just registered here few days ago. And so far, the longest conversation I've had was the discussion I have created just few hours ago. It was a very interesting subject I think. And since I find the topic very interesting, I monitor closely the responses that I receive and comment back to them as fast as I can. And every time I comment back to their responses, I also ask follow-up questions to them. And there is one mylot user who answered fast on my follow-up question. So the question and answer went on. And until now, our conversation is on-going. haha

I guess what make a successful discussion is when it remain cleaned after sharing oppose views . Also when you are able to learn something new and can share your input . I dont think getting a lot of replies is necessary because we have a lot more people here that mean a lot more topic to chose from so it will be harder to get a lot of respond like back in those days I guess.

I've had a couple of discussions recently which I started and which produced enough words to write a short book. They were in, surprise surprise, the politics and religion forums, and in the case of the religious one I must have made about 40 or 50 responses to responses - which probably accounted for 1% of the total lol, since it turned into an ongoing religious war among several people from three different faiths. I bailed out relatively early, it was making my head hurt. I made nearly as many posts in one of my political discussions, most of which revolved around, again and again, trying to point out the way my attackers were misreading and misinterpreting what I had said. I ended up thinking they were all intellectually challenged, not because they disagreed with me but because they simply didn't seem to understand that they were fighting a battle which didn't even exist and arguing issues which had nothing to do with my discussion while insisting that what they said I meant was what I actually meant, and if you think this sentence is going round in circles, you'd be absolutely right, because that bloody discussion kept going round in circles, and my head's hurting again just thinking about it. I think I'll go and have a good lie down now. Lash

I think a controversial topic will be greatly commented by our fellow mylotters....that is actually my experienced here in mylot. But my discussion was just commented by a maximum of 22 comments....anyways, I consider it as an achievement already.

I have had days long conversations on the hot topics thru email. I do not seem to have as good of luck through mylot with maintaining a conversation past a dozen or so posts. I tend to have my most heated conversations with my child hood friend who now lives several time zones away. While we do not necessarily disagree on a topic, we are good at playing eachothers devils' advocate forcing the other to be able to defend their reasons.

Here it's especially easy, coz you can get into a debate that rides on more than one point, argue over one of the points until you come to a resolution on that, then move on to another point &--when you're just about to reach a resolution on that--attack again on the first point ... and so-on. You couldn't do that so easily if you were having the argument in real life, because IRL somebody would stop the conversation then & there.

Hi scorp, the longest discussion I ever had was on the phone back in the early 70's. So you know it was a landline, and this was way before cordless phones. It didn't have a really long cord on it either. But I was on the phone with a close friend who had moved to Nevada and we talked for 8 hours. I use to be quite a talker. We were good friends and always had a lot to say to each other. I guess we must have had a real lot to say that night! We talked every week or two, so it wasn't like we hadn't talked in a while. But that's when long distance phone bills could be really expensive. I don't remember what mine was from that call. But I do remember that it was really high.

I have not seen a discussion like that. I am like four months old here and I would love to see discussions like what you are talking about. I think simple topics can be long discussions as well. Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful day ahead.

My longest discussion was about 3-4 hours long face-face. I would never type that long or my stupid laptop battery would run out...lol. The discussion was about the future of life and me and some friends just started talking out of nowhere.

Good post to tell you frankly I have not counted how many people have commented on my discussion, but if I am not wrong it must be around 20 plus in some of my post. What I feel just receiving the comment on the post is of no use, but we have to comment back to other members discussion then only we come to know what exactly other members wants to say about our post