To many? Too few? Just the right amount?

Hi GRANDP BOB, Yes I have noticed that you have been doing a lot of discussions whic I love to respond to, I have not done any discussion for a while now and just been responding all the time. I do get a lot of points go missing when the time of payout comes, but I really don't don't why as the discussions I have responded to have not been deleted, but I just carry on responding. Tamara

LOL I noticed I didn't see your topics. ;) I just start discussions when I want to ask a question or talk about stuff that it seems Myloters aren't talking about. So, sometimes, I make a lot and sometimes I make none. I usually reply more than I make topics. No, I don't mind if friends don't reply. They might not have something to add or want to. I feel bad when I can't reply much to friend's disscussions, but I hope they understand.

I think I have satisfied each and everyone of my responders who came to my discussions. Yesterday I spend almost all my time here replying to my responders and it has been a blessing for me to get over 120 responses for one discussion and I have replied to each and everyone of them. Normally I will post 2 to 3 discussions once every 2 or 3 days and spend the other few days in responding and replying to responders. I feel every quality discussions that command good responses should be attended to so there is a goodwill bridge built with the responders. Leaving the responses to their fate will see a short-lived relationship and they will only come once to your discussion as they feel their time taken to respond to the discussion have not been duly acknowledged or rated. We are here not only for the pennies but to build friendships by way of our interaction through our discussions.

It would be interesting to see what your results are..Though I will continue to do both, it would be nice what earns more..I am thinking it all depends on how many respond to your discussions verses how many discussions you respond to....

I can tell you one thing. I respond to 95% of all my friend's discussions. In fact, by the time I have finished responding there is not time for me to browse. I post very few discussions and when I do, I do not receive a large response - just the faithful friends who respond. today, I was responding to a friend's discussion and realised that since she asked me to be her friend she has not responded to even one of my discussions. so I checked again on her posts and she answers very few responses. Sometimes, none at all. I am tempted to turn off the button so that I will not receive her posts but I am also concerned that this may be unkind. I thought that as friends we would help each other out by responding to some of the discussions. This is how I feel. Blessings

I didn't know you started that many discussions. I hardly ever see any. I guess most of the time we are online at different times. I would be eternally grateful if the friends on my friends list would start quality discussions even if they didn't get back to the people who commented on them. Several of the people on my friends list will start twenty discussions in the space of one hour and they will be complete drivel. They will all have the same theme and if you put them all into one discussion you still wouldn't have anything that mattered. You have been at this either a lot longer or at least a lot more dedicated than I have. If you haven't figured out the best way to make the most money I don't know who can. Personally I have come to the conclusion that the formula is arbitrary and changes from day to day. The reason I say this is on the days that I have typed my fingers off I don't make much but other days that I was hardly on line at all was the time my earnings jumped the most. Go figure.

It will be interesting to see how it comes out. I think it mostly comes down to your participation, as for your earnings. Part of it is the length of your respones, not just your points. You will do better if you respond to lets say 10 discussions with more then a few words. Then you would if you responded to 10 discussions with one or two word answers. Of course you can start a discussion tomorrow and fill us in n your results.

Well, I tend to come to MyLot and post and respond when I feel like it. I have not noticed any different between responding or just creating discussions. But I do feel most times when people just create a ton of discussions tend to get overwhelemd and never respond. To me they are in it for earning and not for friendship and conversation as well. Excluding you of course, as you are doing an experiment. I wonder why I wasn't seeing any post from you. Now I know why. Good luck and keep us in tune with your results from the experiement.

I can't wait to see the results of your test. Should be very interesting. Honestly I think we get more when we start discussions because of the responses we get plus the responses we give back, if any. As for starting discussions, I can't pass judgment on ANYONE since I have a constant mental hiccup going on lately and don't start very many myself. But when I do start a post, I like to respond back to everyone just to let them know that I AM paying attention to what they are saying. I think that's common courtesy. But that's just me.

When someone starts a discussion and I respond to it I do like a reply back. If the person who started the discussion has way too many to reply back to then I can understand why they don't respond back to each and every one. Since I don't start many and the ones I do don't get many responses it is easy for me to reply back to them. hahaha

Aha!..now this explains why you seem to be the only one doing discussions today besides my 2..lol..I'm curious to hear how it goes since i respond more to people if I'm online and missed the past two days, so am trying to make up for it today..Grandbabies just went home with their Mommy and Daddy so i'm alone now..I need to make money since i spent so much on presents..lol..so need to make payout..

Very interesting Grandpa Bob ya know I never thought of doing it that way. You'll have to be the judge of that for all of us seeing your the first to do this. I really haven't been here much but need to get on the ball to reach my end of the month payout. I am better at answering discussions than I am starting them so I go that route for now. I did start alot of discussions when I first started here but am fresh out of ideas to start. Good luck on finding out which way works best. I say you do a fine job either way.

I have never made that much doing anything here. I have made over a $1 lots, but something has even happened to that. I can comment all day long and haven't made $1 in over 2 months! I don't know what is going on here with my pay. I'm not even going to make payout again this month. Took me two months to do it to get paid this month. I only made 4 cents on Sunday although I made lots of comments. I've got to the point I don't even expect much anymore. There for a long time, I could make $1 or more most days, but I don't expect it anymore.

I get a little disappointed when my friends don't respond to my discussion , but I learn to deal with it because I have over a hundred on my friends list and I have about ten of those that respond to my discussion. I just try to forget it and go on with the next move. I have been making payout and that is good enough I have made some nice friends and I like that too. I can't say that I respond to all of my friends discussion either. I have noticed that some of the friends that was responding to my discussion has stopped and think the reason is that I wasn't responding to their discussions. I even had one person to delete me as a friend because they said every time they respond to one of my discussions they had points taken from them. How is that? Why would someone be punished for answering a discussion. I didn't have any discussion deleted. So why would they take their points. Some time the whole process gets confusing. I just said one person lost will not keep me from reaching my payout. I say if that's the case they were not a friend in the first place.

My mind is so empty I don't know if I could post even five discussions a day. I've also give up on every understanding how mylot judges how much our responses are worth. I'm just glad I have you and so many other mylot friends who give me great discussions to choose from and respond to. Merry Christmas Grandpa Bob!

Hey There grandpa Bob, I suppose you use the net unlimitedly for a day and you really are big user of Mylot and i suppose that you can do these sort of things to earn money and i suppose if you really are intrested in discussing some topics over here then you should reply to all and start some quality postings and i dont say that its bad to do like this but then only a few could be good if you start so many discussions of yours and i suppose that would really not earn many bucks for you and you will not earn that much of course..i'm really sorry if my sentences had hurted you.. Merry Christmas Happy New Year happy Mylotting

If someone starts making too many discussions, I tend to doze off and ignore them... sorry.

You'll have to let us know how it all turns out! Very interesting indeed. I would answer all your discussions but I do have company...right now they are out visiting friends so I have a few minutes! Do let us know how the whole little experiment turns out..

well some days i've had to just respond to one of my friends discussions each. if i responded to their every discussion i'd never get done i have finally realised this after i got so many friends

I don't like it when people don't respond to mine at all. It makes me kind of upset but then not the way it did at first as I do try to understand if people don't have the time to respond to everyone's. You have a nice New Year. Your friend onlydia