Do you wonder why you don't get a lot of responses on your myLot posts?
@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
United States
August 9, 2016 11:29am CST
I think this topic has been popular for a while now. People always wonder why they aren't getting comments and likes on posts. I have a reason. It may not apply to you but it does apply to a few people.
Look at your list of discussions - scroll down - How often do you post? How many responses do you see? 1 or 2, or 15 or 20? If you see that you are only getting a few responses a lot of the reason is because you are posting too often.
If you are posting one an hour, hour after hour, you are:
. Not giving people the opportunity to respond to you.
. Turning people off.
The idea of this site is interaction - you need to give people time to interact by not inundating them with posts.
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@vandana7 (100280)
• India
9 Aug 16
@AbbyGreenhill ...psst...he was fishing for a compliment.. I am still wondering whether the d and t are interchangeable.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
9 Aug 16
No no Alfredo - you can't be bad - you bake bread for the homeless!
@amadeo
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
9 Aug 16
You get a lot of responses because you post great stuff!!!
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@LadyDuck (471497)
• Switzerland
10 Aug 16
When I see many posts from the same person I usually read the first and skip all the others. I prefer to interact with more people than to leave many comments to the same person. One thing that I have noticed, those who write a lot, most of the time do not reply to comments. I am making a clean up among those I follow.
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@LadyDuck (471497)
• Switzerland
10 Aug 16
@AbbyGreenhill I am doing the same, I visit many users every day and some of them never dare to reply to comments. I am not going to lose my time with them.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
12 Aug 16
@LadyDuck Life's too short to waste time.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
10 Aug 16
They don't get many comments because most of those multi-posts have very little of value in them. I unfriended a few here and on Facebook.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
9 Aug 16
maybe, if the posts are super interesting it might not matter. at the same time on bubbs I did find I did better if I spaced out those posts.
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@Beatburn (4286)
• Philippines
10 Aug 16
Ah, Bubbs... don't you miss it?
@AbbyGreenhill @Jessicalynnt
I am grateful that I have always received comments and responses even if I disappeared for a long while.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
9 Aug 16
Believe me, not all posts are interesting LOL - but you know that already!
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
10 Aug 16
@AbbyGreenhill true, one cannot appeal to everyone
Wow...@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
9 Aug 16
@akalinus I know what you mean....hopefully many people have online lives LOL!
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@miniam (9154)
• Bern, Switzerland
9 Aug 16
Recently i post less and less, sometimes days go by without posting discussions because l have nothing to say really, but i still reply to discussions.
In the period that l do not post, l have come to see that l get very little responses from people l follow,maybe because they do not know i posted?
Having said that, im not going to post a 1 line discussion like "im having coffee/lunch etc and you? too boring
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
9 Aug 16
I assume a one line post is against the regulation? But when you post you say more than one line LOL!
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
10 Aug 16
@miniam one liners are a waste of time.
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@miniam (9154)
• Bern, Switzerland
10 Aug 16
@AbbyGreenhill
The 1 line posts are so boring to me and i get nothing from them so l mostly do not reply to them.Hope l don't get desperate for replies to post every time l have a coffee.I want to think im a bit more creative and if my creative mind is blank, l stay quiet.
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@Blondie2222 (28611)
• United States
10 Aug 16
I agree i see some people post all day and wonder why nobody is responding. It's hard to keep up on all the post especially when you have alot of followers. That's why I post once a day or once a week depending on how much time I have.
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@Blondie2222 (28611)
• United States
10 Aug 16
@AbbyGreenhill yeah that is a bit much
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
10 Aug 16
I see that since I posted this one person has posted what seems like every 10 minutes?!!!
@infatuatedbby (94914)
• United States
9 Aug 16
Great point 
Then again, it could be time zone sometimes too, so they won't see those posts.
Then again, it could be time zone sometimes too, so they won't see those posts.1 person likes this
@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
9 Aug 16
If they are following the and get notifications then the time zone thing isn't a factor.
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@infatuatedbby (94914)
• United States
9 Aug 16
@AbbyGreenhill Yes that's true. Sometimes its hard to catch up
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
9 Aug 16
@infatuatedbby Since there are no hard and fast rules it's up to each of us to do as much or as little as we feel like. I like to be here, but I also like to not be here!
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@sprite1950 (30452)
• Corsham, England
11 Aug 16
I post one a day but I still only get 7 or 8 responses. I only just came back though after a long break so I don't really have many followers. I'm happy with those responses though.
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@sprite1950 (30452)
• Corsham, England
11 Aug 16
@AbbyGreenhill Yes, I'm in no hurry and I'm enjoying responding to other people's posts.. My money is slowly rising.
@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
11 Aug 16
As you know, it takes a while to get a following. I did real good the first few days here, then it slacked off a lot and i had to start building.
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@PurnaSharma (2562)
• Guwahati, India
10 Aug 16
Good said,a blacksmith of hundred Goldsmith.
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@PurnaSharma (2562)
• Guwahati, India
10 Aug 16
@AbbyGreenhill
A single blow of a blacksmith is equal to a hundred blows of a Goldsmith.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
10 Aug 16
I'm not quite sure what that means?
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@CinnamonGrl (7084)
• Santa Fe, New Mexico
9 Aug 16
I don't plan on posting that many discussions. I like time to interact by commenting on people's posts and having time to answer questions if somebody had them on my own posts. Besides, I don't have that many ideas for discussions. I just want to post them when I've genuinely been thinking about the topic.Good points you are making here.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
9 Aug 16
Thanks...I have ideas floating around in my head all the time and I've learned over the years to spread them out! (unless they get lost up in my head!)
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
9 Aug 16
@AbbyGreenhill - Ms Abby - 20 posts a day keeps MyLotters away. More than likely. 
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
10 Aug 16
@CRK109 I keep my in my head - and sometimes they 'fall out' but I have a good imagination so not hard to come up with new things.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
10 Aug 16
There are times I would to post one after another because ideas hit me - but then I stop and say to myself - no!
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@CRK109 (14556)
• United States
10 Aug 16
@AbbyGreenhill Same here. Instead, I write my ideas down so I don't forget them and eventually I have a pretty long list from which to choose!
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@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
9 Aug 16
Too many posts is not a good strategy nor are placing them in a close time frame though many people have limited time and have to post 2 or 3 relatively close. I will say photo posts are an exception. Those are very popular. Sometimes you want to go crazy and post a bunch thinking what a return you'll get but it never works that way here.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
9 Aug 16
You got that right. I save most of my photos...I write for a friend's blog and I can put as many as I want so I save the good stuff for there. It doesn't gain me anymore since I get paid by post, but it may gain visitors to the blog, which in turn continues my 'employment'
@vandana7 (100280)
• India
9 Aug 16
@AbbyGreenhill ...I bump into others somewhere or the other...so to me that is not a major concern..lol
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
9 Aug 16
Only 10 responses scare me LOL! There are days I'm more talkative than other days.
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@IntrovertShy (2780)
• Marikina, Philippines
18 Aug 16
Yes you are correct. Hehe. We earn money by participating here on myLot. I do not care if I earn a cent here on myLot. Sometimes, I am here to ask question and I am on myLot to enjoy myself if I am bored or if I am stress. This is just an ordinary forum for me.
@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
18 Aug 16
It is good that it is here for us no matter why our reasons,
@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
10 Aug 16
@AbbyGreenhill Of course . We should interact with others also .
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
10 Aug 16
Time to read and respond for sure is necessary.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• United States
9 Aug 16
'n here i thought 'twas i jest dribble nonsense that folks aint got'n inklin' to read, lol.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
9 Aug 16
@crazyhorseladycx Oh OK....you're a very serious person LOL!
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@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• United States
9 Aug 16
@AbbyGreenhill aw now, i 'twas bein' serious, too!
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
9 Aug 16
@AbbyGreenhill someday I am guilty of posting too close together. I have noticed that it does seem to cut down on comments.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
9 Aug 16
You don't do it often, but some to it like that all the time.
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
10 Aug 16
@AbbyGreenhill so I've noticed. I only do it when I am really pressed for time.
