Do you find that when your post is very long, you get less responses?

If they are to long I know I don't even read them. Also some people don't know how to hit the enter button. It's about a page long and it just runs on and on. It may be a good topic but I loose my place one to many times and just say the heck with it.

I have noticed that. Sometimes I write little humorous (hopefully) pieces that are a little bit longer than most and these tend to get very few responses. I don't know if my discussions suck or if people just don't want to take the time to read them.

I don't mind if it's lengthy to a certain extent but as you said if it's all over the place and you don't even understand the question. I have however seen some people simply write as a response that sorry your discussion is too long for me to take the time to read. However I try to read them if they have something I am interested, but some of these things that are just some mile long joke or list of something or another I don't bother.

Your length of this one is about as long as I personally will read. I do not stay interested in novals here. I don't care what length MyLot wants. I will respond as long as it takes to say what I have to say. Nice post. I am rating you a + for it. Have a great day.

i sometimes get confused as to what part they want a response on.when the discussion is about 2 or 3 subject.but i dont mind reading them.but like you i like the ones that gets right to the point an dont have a long story behind it.it takes long enough to find something to response to an digging through the discussion.

When I have a discussion to post that involves copying and pasting I use what I want from the article to make my point. I then give the link to the complete article incase someone want to read it all or see where I got my information.

It may sound funny, but I have never really noticed/tracked that aspect of a discussion. I like to have more than ten, but not hundreds of responses. I would guess, just from looking at how pleasing your discussion looks to the eye, that six lines of text are probably plenty, but sometimes more is required. Some discussions actually hold two or more discussions in one, but the poster doesn't realize it.

Yes, I have noticed that longer posts do not get as rich of response. Sadly, what seems to get the most robust responses are the shallow do you prefer 'X' or 'Y?' It is ridiculous. If you put something up that requires any creativity, don't expect responses either! It seems folks just want to say, " I like 'X'" and move on. Sad, very sad.

Me too but sometimes the post has to be lengthy,depending on what they are talking about

It doesn't matter to me how long a post is to me. I read all of my friends discussions through my email. If they are extremely long, so long as at the end they have reiterated what they were looking for in a response then I will respond if I have something to contribute to the discussion. If it needs some thought then I put it into a folder that's marked need some thought, then I go back to it later in the day to respond. The ones that I find difficult are when they don't clearly say what they are looking for, especially rants. I find that most of them really have no clear questions being asked. Those even though I read them I really usually have nothing to contribute. Hope that makes sense! :)

I like pretty direct posts too. I understand that sometimes the post must be long to make sense. I too get lost and forget the topic when they are too long. Many times that will turn me off of replying. I myself have not really posted anything that long. Doesn't matter I still don't get many replies. (I decided that I'm boring ;) ). I guess it would probably affect peoples replies.

I don't mind long discussions as such, but when those discussions are copy/paste jobs full of useless information, I don't even read. If there's a question in that duscussions, I'll try to answer it, but a lot of times, I find it's just mindless rambling lol. I prefer shorter discussions that actually have something to them.

I havent worked it all out yet. Do you get more money for posting longer topics, why some topics dont get any posts at all and if you get more money if more people reply? I have started a few topics now and it always surprises me which topics do better than others. I agree with you though, straight to the point and not too lengthy is good.

Well to read a 5 minutes long post it need to be interesting for the person that read it

I find that to be true too. I really hate reading real long posts when I first look at them I say oh now but I usually start to read them and its not that bad.

Actually, yes - I have to agree with you. I guess if you are home all day, and have more time, then these long posts are interesting to read, but I am here for a limited amount of time because of my full-time job, and long, rambling, starter posts just turn me off, and I tend not to read them! It's a shame, because I'm sure some of them are very interesting, but I would prefer to skim through all my friends' posts, and answer as many of them as I can to help them, without having to spend half an hour reading one topic. Cheers!

I do not mind the question being ling if it is something I am interested in. I think sometimes people are not asking questions - they are stating their opinion and want someone to agree. Seems like we are playing jeopardy sometimes. But I still like to see others views on things regaurdless.

I get confused too when reading lengthy discussions. Sometimes, there are more than 5 questions in it that I lose track of what I'd like to say. Oftentimes, I'd just hit the back button and look for other discussions that are more straight to the point and concise. As I'm only mylotting in my free time, I'd like to make the most out of my time and not spend too much time in a single post.

I have found that if a discussion is extremely long by the time I get to the end it seems everything has been said and I don't know how to respond or I have been bored with too many details. Ok, I admit I do occassionally post some kinda long ones but haven't noticed a diffence in responses - I think sometimes it depends on the content of the long discussion. I've also seen and posted a lot of short discussions that get few responses.

I agree, i think that quantity does not always entail quality; if the discussion is popular, then it shouldn't matter whether it's long or not. Whenever i talk to my friends, i don't want to be talking about one thing for five minutes when it can be said in only like 10 seconds.