How to keep a discussion alive and evergreen?

Yes there is always a way to let convo live and you are smart enough to just do that..... rephrase....

Hey, hey! It's me again. And I have more input for you on this question of yours... You are new here. I checked your profile and I see that you are only following 1 person, and only have 4 followers. I also noticed that, while you have 48 comments, they are all comments on your own posts. So far, you have only responded on other people's discussions 4 times. Perhaps it would help if you interact more with other people by responding to more of their posts. Try to increase the number of people you follow so that you will be able to see more topics to respond to. Interact with more people so that they in turn will think you are worthy to follow. The more people you interact with, the more people are likely to see your discussions and respond. Since you are still new, your posts will appear in the New User Discussions. But when you are not so new anymore, what then? Sure, your posts will appear initially on Most Recent Discussions, or maybe Discussions w/ No Response, but what if most people prefer just looking at All Activity of Follows? Then for them to see your discussions, they should be following you. So do work on interacting with other myLotters first. Make a good impression and give them a reason to follow you. Just try not to annoy them though.

Well, I took a peek at your activity and I see that you are very active in interacting (is that redundant? ) with your responders. That's definitely a good way to keep your discussions going. And then, perhaps, it is better to opt for discussions which covers a topic that is likely to result a back and forth between you and other myLotters. If the topic you post is only a yes or no type of question, then that post will probably die pretty quickly. Also, there are those who post a daily thing - I mean, a 'this is how my day went' sort of thing, and they make a similar post everyday. I guess other people like that. I personally don't. I'm not even sure if the site really does allow that. Strictly speaking (I believe), you're not supposed to repeat topics here. But anyway, the point I'm trying to make is: if you have those daily things, then definitely the older ones will die off as it is replaced with the newer post. I'm not entirely sure how that affects your earnings. Oh, by the way, discussions don't have an 'expiry date' here. You can find discussions that are 10 years old!

I've just remembered something. I started writing on a German site 16 years ago. It was a site for reviewing products. Writing freely on online site was new then and people were enthusiastic. The site didn't offer private message boxes, but people wanted to chat to each other and not only about products. So they often hijacked comment threads and talked to each other there. One member became famous because a comment thread of his reached 12.000+ (twelve thousand) comments. Commenting didn't mean earning money as it does on myLot, though. It was just fun. You'd have loved it there.

One way is to subtly guide it in another direction. Just add an extra word or expand on an idea. But, discussions do come to an end. I had a couple that I thought would never end, but they did.