How do you feel when a discussion totally bombs?

I don't start too many discussions. I respond more to discussions than I start. I do have a few with zero responses and I just say oh well! I earn more off of just responding to discussions than I do to starting them. Maybe when I get a free moment, which I really haven't had the time to think about new discussions to start lately, I will. But until then I will continue to respond to the discussions that I can that my friends start. Lately, I haven't even had time to look elsewhere to find discussions to respond to since my inbox is always full of discussions my friends have started.

Well the ones that bother me are the ones where I am seriously looking for answers and I get nothing. So I must have asked a question that no one knew the answer to.

Im sorry it bombed. It has happened to me once. I just forget about it and keep on keeping on.

I know what you mean and it can be frustrating! I can't begin to figure out what makes people "tick"; some of the discussions that get dozens of responses seem really lame to me - I don't mean that to criticize anyone, but you know what I mean - and some that are really interesting and thought-provoking go over like lead balloons! I guess you got it right, you win some and you lose some! Just keep on posting and hope for the best! One thing I have noticed is I'll have a discussion that got few or no responses for weeks then all of a sudden it pops up again, sometimes after I've totally forgotten it and it takes off. Who can figure? Annie

It had occured many a times to me, and a lot of times my discussions ended unanswered, and what worries me some times is that i would have asked a serious doubt, about my unknown area of interest, and i may not get the reply..or hahaa.. sometimes i may get one or two replies, which comes in the form as " yea, i also have the same doubt.. and lets see what others respond to " And the end result is the topic is already bombed out..^__^;;

It has only happened to me once. I have only one on my profile page, I just checked before responding to yours. I even forgot about the discussion. It is so many pages back that it probably will never get seen again and won't get any responses. Too bad there is no way to reactivate it. Oh well, no problem. I didn't like seeing it there on my profile though. I don't understand why no one responded but then I didn't have very many friends on my list and now I have and most of my discussions are answered by my friends. Maybe that's the answer. Not enough friends on my list, when I first started mylotting.

I believe it all has to do with the what you type in the subject line! That's your hook. I've seen the same person post the same topic and use different headers in the subject line. It's what grabs people's attention in the one or two seconds when they're scrolling through discussions.

I always feel a little sad when no one responds, unless I post just for me, which I did once. It is really good feeling to come back and have 20 or more responses though. That is when life is really good.