Starting a discussion with a shorter post could help us earn more?

nah I prefer making long discussions, I dont need to attract 50 people. few people who are really interested in the topic can give me a more satisfying discussion., you wont earn from the number of responses you get. sometimes a discussion of your yours with only 1 discussion will make you more money than a discussion of yours with 100 responses. Just try to make friends with the right people.

I Prefer that fully agree with you. More letters can't make more earnings here. The matter we discuss and the Quality will decide the Money here. Also more Words it's quit annoying for all to Read. Busy world we have not enough time to read so directly showing our matter is Good and Earn more responders fast!

i am not sure if there is a difference in the length of the discussion for us to be able to earn more. but you are right that most people tend to respond to discussions that are brief and concise. long discussions take so much time to read and understand. people here want to respond to as many discussions as possible to maximize their earning potential.

Aja I think people should not be so lazy as there are a lot of really good discussions here that are more than foue short sentences. this generation is u sed to short texts but mylot'want qu quality and wants the discussions to be descriptive and mnake sense. I have seen some so short I do not know what they are even trying to say. there is a limit to how concise and I think each person with his or her topic has different needs,. some discussions cannotg be put into a brief memo as it is a discussion after all. I think this is and should be left u p to the poster as I h ave found some really interesting discussions that are not short.

Hello Aja103654, Partly you are right as people do have a habit not to read the longer posts sometimes i too don't read the longer posts and skip them. But if the discussion is interesting one then i don't leave it without responding it does not matter how much long it is.

That is true. I find myself interested in reading shorter discussions which are direct to the point. I do write some of those long discussions especially if the topic discussed is of interest.

It is somewhat misleading to say that a 'shorter post can help us earn more'. I think that I understand what you mean, however. A good discussion topic should always encourage (indeed, demand) good quality, descriptive responses, therefore it has to be sufficiently descriptive itself. That doesn't mean that it must be long-winded. There are some topics, it is true, where people are telling a complicated story or quoting a long news item (which we are supposed to link to, not quote in full, anyway). Even I (with good reading skills and English as my first language) sometimes give up and go away! Generally, between two and five (shortish) paragraphs - no more - should be quite enough to introduce a topic. There can really be no rule but if you think about a topic as: 1) INTRODUCTION: Short description of what the discussion is to be about or what problem one has which needs solving. [One paragraph only of two or three sentences] 2) EXPLANATION: Detail necessary to understand the topic; background to the problem (answer the questions WHY? WHERE? HOW? WHEN? WHO? so that people know where you stand). [May be between one and three paragraphs ... or, exceptionally, more, depending on what information people may need] 3) CONCLUSION: Open the discussion by describing what to discuss, possibly asking suitable questions for people to answer, so long as they can't be easily answered in just a few words. [One paragraph, two or three sentences only. Understand that many people may only read the heading and the last paragraph properly or at all, so be brief and to the point] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "The more people that respond, the more chance we have to earn by replying to them" Yes, that is generally true, but I have seen quite a few discussions with only two or three responses where people have continued to comment back and forth (and so may have earned a great deal). That is what I would call a 'good discussion'. On the other hand, I have seen countless discussions with several pages of responses where the 'discussion owner' has commented on most of them but really hasn't had a great deal to say and (if is even more than just 'Thanks for responding') eventually ends up by repeating the same thing over and over in different words. The REAL answer is that people should think less about what they will earn and more about what they will say. It then becomes almost automatic - the more that you really have to say, the more that you will actually earn!

Hi Aja! For me, the length of posts matter at times. It's just like you said, people tend to back away from reading long posts. It's just hard to read long paragraphs. But sometimes, if I really like the topic, I would endure the long reading and small letters. Titles also matter because if the title catches my attention, no matter how long the discussion is, I will read it and make my post. I don't think the length of posts is the issue. I think it's the sense of the discussion. Those discussions with sense that get a lot of LONG responses will earn more than those discussions without sense that get SHORT responses. It's not the number of posts we make but the it's the quality of posts that matters.

It isn't about hos long or short, but how interesting the topic is. I have discussions that are long, because the person needed to make a few points to avoid bad replies. I have also read short one, (not real short line one sentence, but ones that only have 3-4 sentences, enough to start a discussion) and had great discussions there too..

I like your logical thinking Why waste time with a long topic, which many might not read, when you can spend even more time commenting on the responses that a shorter topic might reap - brilliant!

well maybe. but agree that we keep short but detailed discussions.but not that short ok. i feel the same way about discussions that are too long.sometimes i forgot what to say during the time im writing my comment that i need to read it again.

yes. I read short discussions. I enjoy posting my responses in such discussions that are interesting. Lengthy discussions --I read if the topic is interesting. Whenever I start a discussion I do it with the hope that at least forty people will post their response. But I get in single digit responses only.

Yeah, it is better to keep it simple. If one sentence can explain well, why should we use two, or even 5 sentences? I found myself bored if someone make a discussion more complicated and not going to the point. But if every sentences have the punchline, then I don't mind to read the long post. Well, about the earning, even if the discussion is long, as long as the creator can make every word understandable, then I think he should be able to earn more as well.

Interesting findings! But will longer posts earn more than shorter one? Or more earning depends on how many reply?

That could be true for most people, however if the topic is interesting to me then i'll read the whole discussion and respond to it the best i can. But i also like shorter discussions and then I have more to say to them. But either way I love mylot I just wish they would get some more interesting topics on here, it seems lately that the topics are always repeated ones and with that I don't care to reply to any. That's why I stayed away from this site for almost a year because it got boring to me. But I been back alot this weekend because I've had nothing else to do and there has been a few interesting topics this past weekend then there has been in awhile. So it's starting to make some progress.

Is it true that the longer sentences we post, the better we earn? Their making longer discussion with 2 paragraphs or is probably because they think it will yield more earn.

Hi aja.... My first preference in case of responding goes to my friends and i try to read each and every post of my friends. Its not considerable whether the post is long or short, if i can relate myself then i respond to that topic. Again, after that my second preference is random choice and at that time i prefer short post coz i dont wish to spend more time reading long posts. Have a nice time.

Short, precise and brief discussions are always very effective. More over in today's era people are very busy and they dont have time for reading long discussion untill and unless the topic is of there choice.

I am not sure shorter or longer but I do believe the more to the point the discussion is the better...It really annoys me when I actually have to read and re-read a post because of either the point is not clear or I just can not understand the post. I know we are not all professionals and certainly I am not but it would help if the point of the discussion was clearer.. Not all the time just some post.... I have read a post where the writer starts talking about a third party and then it sseemed as if they were the third party..just confusing....sorry...

As someone who has only just signed up, I have to say that I enjoy reading the longer posts, although it does depend on the time of day lol. It's gone 10pm here so I'm feeling a little tired and a little lazy. Maybe what I'll do is reply to the shorter posts in the evenings and the longer on in the morning when my brain is fresher. Could be a plan...