A lot of responses

@know21 (1250)
United States
August 23, 2008 6:49pm CST
Do you ever start a discussion that your almost certain that its not going to get a lot of responses. Then you find out it actually got more then what you thought; or do you think all your discussions are going to get a lot of responses?
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@bigtom1 (1573)
23 Aug 08
I start some discussions thinking i'm gonna get loads of responses piling in it just to get two people seeing the discussion and sometimes i tend to think its just the timing of the questions as well since i've noticed that there is a time when mylot is overall less active. I get surprised when any of my discussion i start gets more than 10 responses since i ussually average six responses to most of my discussions. So i just got used to thinking that i will get a few responses and it really does surprise me when the number of responses i get proves me wrong
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@know21 (1250)
• United States
24 Aug 08
I had one discussion where I thought just a few people would respond. I think the last time I looked it was something like 74 people who had responded. You never know.
@bigtom1 (1573)
24 Aug 08
Wow, i can just imagine that, you just have to understand me that i have never had a discussion with more than 20 responses. Maybe its because i do not start discussions frequently lol. I will be more than glad to get that many responses in my discussion one day. Maybe soon.
@jaffna (778)
• India
24 Aug 08
yep!it has happened to me so many times..i never thought some to get more than five responses..but i got around ten..likewise,am puzzled about the best reponse..i would be appreciated without expectation..
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@know21 (1250)
• United States
24 Aug 08
I guess we just have to keep posting our discussions, and wait to see what kind of response they get. No matter how many I get. I still enjoy this site.
@kellys3ps (3723)
• United States
23 Aug 08
I don't ever know what to expect with responses for my discussions- sometimes I get a ton, and sometimes none.
• Philippines
24 Aug 08
Hi there know21! There are instances when I thought that the topics I would work on would generate many responses. These are topics that I thought are interesting and that most people would relate to. But, these are actually the discussions that do not get many responses. It can be disappointing at times but there really is nothing much I can do about it. Then, there are also times when I start discussions that I think are not much interesting but I just wanted to share anyway. To my surprise, these are those that generate many responses. I guess we can't really tell whether our discussions would interest others or not. We will only know once we have posted them and responses start coming in.
@know21 (1250)
• United States
24 Aug 08
I think sometimes just having an easy discussion about something that people don't have to think to hard about get more responses.
@sudalunts (5523)
• United States
24 Aug 08
I think my discussions would yield a substantial amount of responses, but that is not always the case. I have started discussions, and maybe get one response, then maybe a week or so later someone, will start a similiar discussion, same theme and get loads of responses. I guess it is who you know and how popular you are with your friends.
@know21 (1250)
• United States
24 Aug 08
That has happen to me a few times. My discussion didn't get hardly any response; then someone with the topic gets tons of responses.
@Chevee (5905)
• United States
24 Aug 08
I think I am going to get a lot of responses on discussions but it seems as though they are not interesting. And then you can see some one else post something you know is not really a discussion and get a lot of responses.
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@know21 (1250)
• United States
24 Aug 08
Like this discussion here not being interesting?
@Tacomeat (18)
• United States
23 Aug 08
htat's exactly how i feel!