I've been wondering..

Questions about food, drinks, colors, etc. get a lot of people responding, so this keeps them at the top of the popular discussions. Discussions on more serious topics (like most of mine) tend to get little attention, even after days. Since they don't get comments, they get buried under all the popular topics. I try to do searches on a topic to find some older, less noticed discussions. Also I go to 'new discussions' to see what's just been posted, before it has the chance to sink to the bottom of the pile.

yes sometimes if you posts on a discussion you could be considered as a spammer and i exccept that because what im posting is answering people who hasn't started well with a question. Most people has one word answer and thats not good enough. This is also not how to earn money because mylot has changed the earning system already. You do get paid better if you post longer discussion. If you are a spammer you won't get much, and make sure you tell your friend that. Good luck

Hopefully since MyLot has put some new guidelines about spammers, those pwople will be slowly moved out. I search through by my interests or go to my friends and answer there discussions.I have to say that I've noticed that some thought provoking discussions have made it to the hot topics,so hopefully MyLot guidelines are working a little.

I post first to all of my friends posts. I have a short list of friends and i keep it that way. When I have finished with that and still feel like being on here I roam my friend's friends and post on there.... then when all else fails I will go to the spam. However, when I am on the spam I post very lengthy answers and not just one word answers. It is rare I go through the spam.

I'm having the same problem. I tried asking more serious questions and no one wants to respond.

Hey there priceless, I am new to this been up a week today and must agree it is hard to find decent discussions in all the other stuff you have to wade through to get there. So tell me how well did you do for your 370 posts the other day when you were off sick?

yes i have to agree with you, i noticed that as well.. and i think that people dont care about real situations but instead care about silly things.. i think that we shouldn't reply to silly topics and just leave them, or report them as they sent an alert saying that they can now..

I agree with you. All the stupid, pointless posts seem to get all the replies. And when you try to make a decent post, no one answers. And yes some people are just encouraging the terrible posts, by answering them. I try to find some that are interesting, and ones that I can actually respond to.

I only look for good Discussions that Interrest me if I am not interrested I won't even write I do not like the one word ones it is not worth opening to put one word in and then start at the beginning again There are a lot of discussions on here that Interrest me but sometimes they are not always at the front lol so I search till I find some My Friends have some good ones that is why I chose them as my Friend

I have only been here at mylot a short time, when I first arrived and looked over the site, I thought my lord! Then I started looking back through the pages finding thoughtful postings and topics so I decided to join up, feeling I had something to contribute for those posters. I figured that if enough people were posting real topics with real responses the spammers would either get the idea or leave. It appears mylot admin did a nice job of clearing out at least the most obvious of those and I still find I have to scroll through the pages to find topic inwhich I may have something to offer. I have since discovered how to navigate the site a bit better, reducing my search time and increasing my posting or reply time. I am more of a reply type person than a topic starter. So you won't find many started by me, but I will reply to anything I feel I can make a positive contribution to.

Good discussion yes it is ashame that these intelligent discussions get pushed aside but with alittle luck myLot will be weeding out the none diserable people.

The good one's are not going to be the most popular one's. It is easier for most people to answer the simple questions about food and drinks then to answer questions about relationships or to share their views on politics. Those of us that can discuss those types of things are being rewarded for it. I make it a point to go and look at what discussions my friends have started and if it received little or no replies and I have something to offer to the discussion I will respond. This pushes it back to the top and increases the chances of others seeing it and responding also. It also helps to comment on replies to your own discussions as that will push your own discussions near the top as well. I have noticed that since the clean up last week that finding the better discussions is much easier now. If we all keep looking for them, we will find even more.

I don't know. I've held off starting a discussion until last night trying to come up with good topics. I must not have succeeded cause hardly anybody has responded. What makes some posts so popular?

this is an odd discussion :-??

Hey, Priceless! I agree. One thing that really irks me is when I post and the response is I don't know anything about it. Then why respond? Or people who keep asking the same questions over and over that have been answered by MyLot policies. Some people say they just respond to whatever they see. I can't do that. It takes me longer to find topics that I think are worth my time and effort to reply to. I also agree that it takes a long time to find the posts that are worth replying to because they are buried under so many ridiculous posts. Oh well.... preaching to the choir! Post on, buddy! :-)

wee, u did get lots of responses for this discussion, and we all know about this spamming issue, i try not to spam, maybe when i first started here but not anymore, anyway, do u want mylot to turn into one of those really strict sites, where if u spam just once u get banned or they just stop giving u money for ur discussions. this is a great site and i u get to talk about anything u want here, and read people's views on ur thoughts. i agree there are plenty of stupid discussions, ive added a few myself (my first days though, not anymore) anyway, look how many people here actually read someone elses answers to a discussion, not even the person who posted the discussion reads them, i think a small % actually do, i try to read them all and answer to them. most people however im sure just see the question, answer and go back to answer another one. specially if u have long answers like this one. if anyone here actually read to other people's discussions, U want me to prove this to u. Everyone posting an answer to this discussion post a comment under my answer to this discussion. see how many people actually post a comment to my answer in ur discussion and u see what i mean. u can calculate the percentage with this on how many actually read someone elses answer. if someone else read this its maybe because they felt curious and read this long answer. I like mylot and their guidelines. dont care for spammers, and i hope this site doesnt become one of those really strict forums.

Best discussions aren't really the best.. the more general one's get more attention because almost anyone of us can actually relate to the topic.. i really can't say nothing to spammers they are just doing their task the easier way.. after all it's not our problem.

thats good

Well, you certainly got some response to this one lol. I only joined this site recently and after reading the site terms I thought this could be a good way to get in touch with people with similar interests and thoughts, or not, and rather than sitting here vegatating could keep the old grey matter active. I was very disappointed, very quickly, almost, but not quite, losing the will to live because of the spam and the poor level of topic for discussion. As I write this now I look at one of todays top users and know for a fact that they are posting one word or very short sentence responses, been on this site for not much longer than me and have almost 10,000. We can all do that but if mylot continue to pay for those types of response then they will very soon be out of business.

The problem is that the SAME discussions stay on the front page ALL DAY. When I first joined, there would NEVER be the same discussions on the front page, they were constantly shifted around. Now, you have to go through page after page to find a new post.