Do you get ticked off on MyLot when mindless one-line posts out-perform your brilliant tomes?

Getting miffed is a perfectly human reaction to things like this. It's not something that makes you a bad person. Going to one of those mindless one-line posts and reading the original poster the riot act for starting the frivolous thing... that might make you a bad person. They used to really bother me at one point. I'm not sure exactly when I decided I wasn't going to react that way anymore. The fact that they get more responses doesn't mean that the topic is "better" than the topic of a longer post. I think the big difference is that they're a bit more accessible to the "average" myLotter. Maybe some of the users whose first language isn't English find the tomes intimidating and pass them up. Maybe it's just a matter of convenience, since it doesn't take much brain power to tell someone that your favorite color is fluorescent clear and you can't live without your daily Eggo waffle. Besides, when it comes down to it, I know that my topics won't be deleted because they're mindless...

Twas ever thus! On the other site I wasted so much time and energy producing top quality comedy (in my own head at least!!!) to get a smattering of likes/comments. I'm over it now! Actually I'm not. It still makes me mad. If you're a bad person then so am I.

As the old saying goes, Life was never meant to be fair. At 66 years old I have encountered far worse scenarios than this, so I never let it bother me.

I suppose it's the bubblews conditioning, but one-liners do seem a bit like the poster couldn't be bothered.

Yes I do and no you're not.

I sit here and shake my head and just think wow how can that be. I don't respond to these mindless posts and yesterday I didn't come here at all because in the morning that was basically all I had seen. I got tired of reading them or seeing them and even shifting through them. so I gave up and decided to leave them for others I wasn't interested. I have written some interesting stuff for her and when I do this I might attract 1 or 2 people at the most. I know it isn't the title it is the mindless posts that win out each time and how many of them pop up all at once and push yours to the bottom or the next page. Nobody can find them t oread them or even comment on them. Shame.

Envy is one of the deadly sins, isn't it? But seriously, I know what you mean. But sometimes people like posts that don't challenge them or make them think. They want to tell you their favorite color, because they know what that is and they might not want to discuss world events, because they don't know anything about them.

Yeah, kinda. You write tomes? I'm doomed!

lol It just isn't fair, but then so many things aren't. Is it gaming the system or are the comments from real active members?

No it does not make you a bad person.I understand the feeling there.Maybe and I am sure that you will come up with something.try a one liner yourself and see how many hits you get?a demo

One should look at the subject matter, rather than the quality of the writing. Some people just want to talk about breakfast cereal, and do not care about oil pipelines, who is going to be our next president, whether VW owes customers more than an apology, or whether acid rain and global warming is real. I have noticed that the shorter and more simplistic my posts are, the better they do, hands down.

Them's the breaks, I'm afraid. But I'm keen to see how you're going to combat the problem.

I only joined today, but I totally agree that I would be niffed if a 1 liner got better comments likes etc than something real, and what I took the effort to write about.

I feel your anguish. While I don't get miffed, I do wish there were more well thought out discussions. I understand, however, that the average person is not a deep thinker or expert conversationalist. And this rings even truer for the written word. Small talk it the norm for most and one liners fit in that category. So I try to overlook it and mostly tend to just ignore most of them or occasionally 'do as the roman's do' if I can find a one liner that isn't too bland.

I think for a one liner question its easier to answer because it doesn't take a lot of thought to answer. And also the poster can boff out a bunch of posts with one liners.

hahah..yes i have noticed many like that and i take it as some people are more connected to something simple than something drawn out that makes them read.

I would get upset too, as that isn't even a discussion. No thought at all. Just hang in there though, as you will do fine, and this discussion has 20 already not including my response, so this one is more interesting to me than the one line discussions. I don't even respond to those at all.

Brilliant tomes? Me? Since when? Snappy one-liners were never my forte!

I have seen this happen on other sites as well. You take an hour to pen a real insightful, well written post and it bombs when a post about good morning, what I am eating now, or something totally illegible get all the glory. I don't think there is anything you can do about it. People read what makes them comfortable and a one sentence post about nothing may excite them. Who knows.

I tend not to even look at the boring one liners, so avoid annoyance at their success. The problem will arise if they and their followers milk the site having added nothing good!