What Determines An Interesting Discussion?

Sounds like JJ has the answer for you.

That's a really good question and reflection. I wish I had an answer but unfortunately there are certain things in mylot that I haven't figured out how they work. I only go to 'most recent discussions' tab, and 'Top rated discussions'.

That is a very good question and I don't know how they determine the interesting discussion but yes, I would say the one with 31 comments should be on top,

As JJ says, it's all about the tags. Some days the list is all my posts because of the 'Western Australia' tag. I don't find them that interesting second time around.

Looks like JJ answered your question.

As long as the $$$ comes in I am not bothered

I'll admit, I don't know. I used to think it was the number of likes. Now, I am not so sure. I guess it's content? How engaging the conversation could possibly be? Maybe we aren't meant to know, because then we'd figure out how people get paid?

In my observation, the number of responses has little to do with how interesting the discussion is. My conjecture is that interesting discussions are judged to be interesting by someone (a moderator?) and rated thus. They may not be the most popular, just most interesting. But I'm really just surmising. Don't really know.

I wrote a discussion recently asking about that. It is based on tags you've used. People that have used the same tags as you in their discussions will show up in that list. That doesn't mean that those discussions are necessarily interesting in general or to you specifically. They think they may be of interest to you. I remember I used to see plenty of my own discussions in that list and thought I had achieved something great. Except I didn't.

@porwest I understand your curiosity Jim and that is a very interesting question. I hope you get your answer.

I actually don't know, maybe we can find there discussions that have many comments

Interesting question. How a post rates was something I always wondered about? Especially the ones labeled Top Rated Discussions. Just because a post about going shopping or getting a visit from family gets many responses for example, does that make it one of the best ones. Is it quantity over quantity then? A post which is thought provoking, provides meaningful interaction back and forth between poster and respondents to me would be how I would determine their worth. But like many things in life subjectivity and popularity rules! Kind of like high school I hope your post gets at least an interesting label, lol.

I feel you