Response Numbers

No, I cannot tell you what you are doing wrong since I have just signed-up on here myself. I think that if we use our interest list that maybe we will get more responses though. Give it a try and see what happens. I just post to whatever interests me or I feel deserves some input. I could really use the little bit of money you make on here also but I think if we use it as an open discussion on interesting topics or use it to help someone then it is doing its job and we are doing ours. Time will tell.

This is the case for a lot of people actually and it has nothing to do with the topic of discussion but more to do with the fact that there are so many new discussions being started all the time. This of course means that some good ones will be overlooked in the great rush. I too mostly use the general discussion button, so that cannot be the issue. When I am responding to my friends discussions I will go back to their old ones and try to bring them forward in the hope that it might get more responses. The controversial discussions will always get more responses, but at the same time I believe that myLot has deleted a lot of them because they add nothing at all to the myLot community. This might be a discussion forum, but quite frankly some of them do well and truly go overboard, or at least that is how it seems to me. Some of my discussions have received large responses and others only a couple but that is the way things happen. When I come here to myLot I will check my own discussions and then make a comment to the responses as well as rate the responses. Making a comment brings the discussion to the top and it might attract more responses. Sometimes this happens and others it just doesn't, but again that is how it goes. Oh and I just remembered that I have to send you a PM regarding uploading photos. :)

Well it seems to me that the topics that get the most responses are those that are very controversial or that are human interest ones. For example, your posts about your swords are great, but it doesn't prompt people to reply much as they don't feel strongly about it enough, unless they share the exact same interest. Compare this with some of the over-the-top racist posts out there, or the "I'm 52, married, seeing my secretary, male, and pregnant - what should I do?" - everyone has an opinion about that! And I wouldn't be surprised if some people go out of their way to make inflammatory remarks or make up drama just for the money. Also I guess hitting the general button means that less people see your posts, as there's so many new general topics being posted every second, and they just push yours down the list so quickly. Whereas the one that I posted under 'Beatles' two days ago is still visible. But to be honest I'm not really sure - these are just guesses. Good luck! Oh, and could you please stop snoring, get up, and make me a cup of coffee? Ta! :)