How to keep a discussion alive and evergreen?
@flying_ash (95)
Mumbai, India
September 21, 2016 3:26pm CST
You start a discussion, people respond, you comment to their responds, they comment back. You start an another discussion and fire up few another and with the time you see the first discussion just dies off, no response and nothing, nothing. Is there any way you can keep a discussion always running or every discussion comes with an expiry date?
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@Loverabbit (3401)
• Karachi, Pakistan
21 Sep 16
Yes there is always a way to let convo live and you are smart enough to just do that..... rephrase....![](/Content/images/emotes/wink.gif)
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@moirai (2854)
• Philippines
22 Sep 16
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. ![](/Content/images/emotes/silly.gif)
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@flying_ash (95)
• Mumbai, India
22 Sep 16
@moirai Wow that's helpful. I'll give it a shot.
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@moirai (2854)
• Philippines
21 Sep 16
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!
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@flying_ash (95)
• Mumbai, India
21 Sep 16
@moirai The problem with back and forth topics are people comment to responds, you comment to their comment and then they comment back, while the thing is comments don't earn you any money. Well I guess the only is I gotta find some topic to which everybody can discuss.
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@moirai (2854)
• Philippines
21 Sep 16
@flying_ash Hmm... I wonder who told you that you don't earn from comments?
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@flying_ash (95)
• Mumbai, India
22 Sep 16
@moirai I just read it somewhere that you don't earn from comments and likes
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@MALUSE (69378)
• Germany
22 Sep 16
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.
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@flying_ash (95)
• Mumbai, India
22 Sep 16
@MALUSE Yup 12k comments to your thread would be fantastic. I love it here too. People respond to my threads and I just love replying them back. It's fun.
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@akalinus (42268)
• United States
22 Sep 16
@flying_ash When everything that could be said about it has been said, it has ended?
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@flying_ash (95)
• Mumbai, India
21 Sep 16
@akalinus hell yeah it's so sad when you see there is no new response to your old discussions :(
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