Discussions that "attract" answers

In reality I think you are right, I tend to do two things, I respond to discussions by friends, because they come into my mailbox so its easy, and I then tend to look at the recent discussions and find ones that I think I can answer. But I think bloggeroo, above, may have a good point, as you could specialise, but you would probably need to find friends who were also interested in that issue. I find politics quite interesting in real life, but I tend not to go those discussions to much as they get a bit heated, and aren't too pleasant, so I just go to the easy everyday topics. but you do make an interesting point, I might look for another subject, that I find interesting, just for a bit of variety. I don't know anything about metal music though, I am more of a folk music fan.

What you say is obviously true, a specialised field will attract a lot less responses because fewer people can actually relate to it. However, when it comes to choosing a discussion to respond to I much prefer one that falls into a specialised category, assuming of course that it is one that appeals to me. Subjects such as opera or Microsoft Excel would be irresistible to me, whereas the overall number of responses would be extremely low.

It seems like a lot of people give generic answers to generic questions sometimes because they do know the answer, think they know the answer or just want to give a quick answer. I don't answer to ones that I know nothing about. To me giving a bland answer doesn't help me or anyone else. I've seen silly questions through the years that get a lot of answers. Someone asking how is your day going or what is your favorite color and why. I avoid them, they're boring to me. Games, videos and movies throw me off because I watch certain things and play certain games and some I haven't ever heard of so no point in even trying to answer them.

It seems like a lot of people give generic answers to generic questions sometimes because they do know the answer, think they know the answer or just want to give a quick answer. I don't answer to ones that I know nothing about. To me giving a bland answer doesn't help me or anyone else. I've seen silly questions through the years that get a lot of answers. Someone asking how is your day going or what is your favorite color and why. I avoid them, they're boring to me. Games, videos and movies throw me off because I watch certain things and play certain games and some I haven't ever heard of so no point in even trying to answer them.

dang..!! you are absolutely correct..!! lol. after some times im active in mylot, i find that giving response to 'light' discussion us much more easier than to those which are 'heavy'. lol. the reason is simple: light discussion such hobby or weather are eash to respond.everyone of us must have opinion above them. everyone has opinion about their hobby or weather but not everyone has opinion about metal music or politics. sometimes i respond to religion topic. but is seldom cos i only give response to religion i know. if it is discussing about other religions, i give up. i find that giving responses is easier than starting discussions. and as long as i can remember, i never respond to politics discussion. lol. i have only one reason why i never respond to them cos i have limited vocabularies. responding to politics duscussion requires complicated vocabularies and im sure i cant do it. FYI, English is not my first language that is why i often find difficulty in expressing my idea upon those kinds of discussion. so why choose hard discussion if we have hundreds easy discussions there..?? lol..

It is not like that. People will respond to discussion dependson their interest. They will respond valid one. Simple subject can attract more people but the responses will based on content of the discussion.

There are many factors that decide why a certain topic receives more responses that another one. How many people are active, whether the topic was posted in a popular interest, whether it is something that many people can relate to and (very importanty too) whether it has been discussed before. There might be an interesting topic posted but many of us are aware that the user who started it will not come back and add comments to our responses, therefore

Your discussion is not a making extra money but its ok. Well, there more discussions to be including news and current events. My most interest topic is basketball. I am updated in NBA. I am also fond of topic like boxing. Sports topics are a little bit attraction.

hi coldnpale I also opt most of the time to make discussions from my own life as we all have some common things we all share like worries about family, 'problems in work, the ordinary things that can happen t o any of us 'even to being waited on by a totally grouchy clerk or being whopped in the back of your knees by an impatient person in line with her grocery cart. ordinary lives appeal to many people.

From experience I find that I get more responses quickly if I set the title as a question compared to using a one-word or few-word title that summarizes the whole discussion I posted. I do agree that some topics I start get more responses more than others.

i always felt that mylot as potential to be a question and answer site too but mostly every one focusing on discussion. since they are paid more for discussion only and not for replies. i have good knowledge on blogger and can answer them and any one who asks question on it...mostly...will not be a discussion but rather looking for straight answer. best way is to stay away from that topics or we need to ask admin to involve a feature to promote even question and style along with discussion...i don't think it will be easy...

I have decided to focus on a few topics / categories because it is time-consuming to be looking for discussions that I can relate to. At least with my chosen topics, I can seem myself improving over time. In any case, I also want to my posts here to be related to my blogs so I can also reuse them in the future.

What I feel in this regards is that it is not what one write and how simple they write, but it is the personal choice of the members which post they want to respond and which they does not. I read many post that are falling in my choosen interest but I reply to only those post which I feel like I can reply well. Now I like your post and your points also and that's the main reason I have replied to your post.

Hi friend, people will always place their replies in a topic, if it is in their interest as well as they have some thing to share, as you mentioned our day to day life events will get more replies, as every one is facing various events and incidents in our life and we can share it with our online friends using this great site and people will give their replies easily to this kind of topics. Some persons always gives replies to technology related topics and some others are interested in politics, it is based on individual interest. Simple and easy to understand topics will always get more replies