Will you feel disappointed with little responses to your posted discussions?

China
January 19, 2009 3:15am CST
Hey my fellow mylotters,as I posted little during the past months and thus when I started to post new discussion last week,I found that I got little responses,I'm not sure if my topics were less attractive or some other reasons.Feeling a little bit disappointed about the outcomes~Anyway,I will keep posting hard as long as I have time and keep active in mylot to share with mylotters~ How about you?What's your feeling in case of little responses to your posted discussions?Just share with me~thanks!!
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@cryw0lf (1302)
• United Kingdom
19 Jan 09
I defiantly agree. I absolutely hate it when i ask a question and no-one comes up with a reasonable answer... or i get given stuff that doesnt really answer me at all haha.
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@cryw0lf (1302)
• United Kingdom
20 Jan 09
Haha yeah, thats my little toy wolf :P I'm absolutely obsessed with wolves so... I got him from the London Zoo xD
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• China
20 Jan 09
Hy crywolf,your avatar is so cute,are you taking the picture by your own? Thanks for sharing your idea about that,which is exactly the same with me~lol`~
• China
20 Jan 09
Great~~
@James72 (26790)
• Australia
19 Jan 09
A long while back I used to get quite sad when I struggled to get responses. The worst thing of all though was getting none at all! Thankfully though, these days I have a wonderful group of friends that would never allow me to get zsero responses anymore, even if I tried! lol. I don't always get large numbers of responses of course, but as long as I get at least a couple, then I'm generally happy these days. Definitely keep on posting discussions that you are able to also manage in terms of replying etc; and always work on your mylot friendships too. Give and ye shall receive!
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• China
19 Jan 09
Well,I do agree with you~I will try to post more discussions~shall you be a member of my group then?lol`
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@James72 (26790)
• Australia
19 Jan 09
Just to clarify tony, it is not a case of posting MORE discussions..... It's a case of posting only an amount of discussions that allow you to manage interactions with people in return! Many people on here post large numbers of discussions each day and there is NO way they could possibly manage them all effectively. And yes, if you make the effort with me then I will do so in return as often as I can. I try to be this way with all people that make the effort with me actually. I can't always keep on top of it all, but I do my best!
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• China
19 Jan 09
Well,understood~I don't want to be the man who posts mountains of discussions and just let them go without managing~lol`~
@alokn99 (5717)
• India
19 Jan 09
I would be more satisfied with a few quality responses followed by some good interactions to the discussion i post. At the same time you should not feel disheartened by the lesser number of responses as they will keep increasing over a period of time and as and how you keep the interactions going.
• China
19 Jan 09
Yea,thanks for your advice~anyway,hope things will be turning better after some while`I just think of keeping active and coming up with some interesting topics for all of us~wow~
@oldboy46 (2129)
• Australia
20 Jan 09
It does seem that a lot of people are saying the same sort of thing in that they do not get any or perhaps not too many replies to the discussions they start. It might be a seaonal type of thing but then again it might be that those pepple who see your discussion have nothing to say. Also you have to remember that there are so many new discussions being started all the time and sometimes even the good ones get missed or overlooked. Then the discussion gets buried amongst the myriad of others started at or around the same time. It is a couple of years now since I last started any new discussions so I am mostly a responded only these days. Part of the reason I don't start new topics is that I cannot be sure when I will be able tog et online because I am often away from home truck driving. That means I would not be able to get back and read the responses I receive and perhaps make some comments to those responses. The best anyone can do is start the most interesting discussions they can think of and then hope that other members are interested enough to respond. Oh and it always helps if the topic started goes back to read and comenton the responses that they receive and of course give a best response to someone.
• China
23 Jan 09
Well,my friend.You always gave me some great idea~thanks! Yup,if you're about to starting some new discussions,whatever you have as the responses,you shall give the responsers some comments for the purpose of respect.Am I right?In case without even one single response,we have to say our posts may not interesting enough or the very reasons you mentioned,then we will think of other topics,otherwise,the best way we're here shall be doing the responser~lkol~
@kun2349 (23381)
• Singapore
20 Jan 09
I'm used to it.. lol =D Used to the feeling of having very little responses to my posts.. hehe ^_^ I guess that might be part of my reasons as to why i dun like to start discussions too ^_^ So far, your discussions are quite good, but i guess, like what u have said, u are inactive a for a couple of months and so most of your friends here might have deleted u from their friend list ^_^
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• China
23 Jan 09
Well,really?I won't delete any of my friends in my list,however,it maybe true during my two months inactive~opsss~~
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@maroseqf (3657)
• Philippines
20 Jan 09
Hello my friend! Whenever I get only few responses to my started discussions, I do not really feel disappointed especially when my topics have certain answers. People would probably do not want to post them same answer over and over again. Well, I get more disappointed when I do not get responses at all especially when I really need advice or help about a certain topic. Anyway, Just be happy when you get even a single response to your discussions. Happy Lotting!
• China
23 Jan 09
Exactly~there're so many duplicated discussion here in mylot~however,I will never search before posting my new discussions~lol.It's happy to see your response,thanks~
@roniroxas (10560)
• Philippines
19 Jan 09
yes of course, but we can not do anything about that. sometimes we feel a discussion we started is very interesting then it turns out to be a boring one for others. as long as i have five or more responces i am happy with it. there are discussions we started that does not tickle the interest of other members. i dont feel disappointed but i try to find a discussion that will attract their attenstion.
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@SHAMRACK (8576)
• India
19 Jan 09
Dear friend, I do get disappointed if I do not any responds on other side I do know that the discussion has not seen by those who could give a responds. Moreover if I get less responds and if they are quality responds or even if I get one quality responds that is enough for me.
@dio123 (1788)
• India
19 Jan 09
Yes offcourse I feel very bad when I started any topic and no one responding but this happened seldom to me, most of the time I do get some responses with which I feel better
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@zhuuraan (961)
• United States
19 Jan 09
I don't let it bother me. I don't post a whole ton here anyway, but when I do, my discussions typically don't get many responses. When I first signed up here before, under a diff username, I got tons more responses. I don't think this username is as well known, so that might be part of it. As well, there are over 150000 users on mylot, which in one way means more users to respond to your discussions, but at the same time, it also means more discussions for those same people to sift through, making all our discussions easily overlooked. Let's say 10000 discussions are started in an entire day, but only 100 of them make the top 5 pages of today's top discussions. That leaves around 9900 discussions that don't even make first 5 pages, and out of those 100 that do, many people only check discussions in the first page or two, reducing that number even more. So, really I consider myself lucky to get the few replies that I do and I don't et discouraged. I just post when I feel I have something to say and leave it at that.
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@silverjam (969)
• United States
19 Jan 09
Of course I feel the same way, disappointed. However I was quite happy because most of the ones I had posted were on the top discussions and that made me feel great. I am not posting a lot in here though. I'd rather response discussions and reply comments on my postings than posting topics here. I really find it more comfortable just replying to discussions from others than posting topics myself. That way it save me from thinking a lot of things to post on.
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@mscott (1923)
• United States
23 Jan 09
I don't get disappointed at all. So many people just start their own discussions without really even looking for similar discussions first. I think some people think they will be earning a lot by posting a lot so they do that and don't bother replying to worth while topics.
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@dropofrain (1167)
• India
20 Jan 09
What's your feeling in case of little responses to - What's your feeling in case of little responses to your posted discussions?
I would feel really dissapointed when I do not get responses on the discussions started by me. Though I have experienced the same for quite some time. I hardly get responses for the discussions started. I do not know what are questions where people would respond the maximum.
20 Jan 09
yes ,it to some extent means my topic is not interesting. i will got a little upset.
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@sweetyethot (1737)
• China
19 Jan 09
I feel disappointed too. But I am quite used to this situation since some of my posts got no response at all!I will never give up,anyway. Cheers!
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@suman2008 (683)
• India
19 Jan 09
Of course!! If I don't get sufficient responses from friends I get disappointed .I feel that either my thinking process is not up to the mark Or it is not appealing at all.I want a lots of responses not just for earning ,It really feels good.Hope I will also get lots of responses from my discussions.I am disappointed but still I have not given up.I am still trying to find the key word for success .Hope I will get it soon.
@rainmark (4302)
19 Jan 09
Well in my case when i got few responses from my discussions posted i do feel little disappointed meaningno one interested to reply on my discussions and my discussions sounds not appealing to them, but like you i do keep posting and posting.And responses is not what matter to me, what matters is i posted a discussions and up to them to reply or not. Happy posting.
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@srijshm (1165)
• India
19 Jan 09
Not everytime. whenever i post a question to find out a solution, i am satiafied to get the correct solution. I will certainly not be happy with many responses like " sorry, i don't know". There are times when i ask a question for the sake of discussion, then i do get upset at the lack of response. Anyway I hardly post questions, answering posts are much more fun.
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• China
19 Jan 09
Of course I will,when you posted your discussions,you just want to share something with others.But little reponses just tell you they don't interested in your discussions.I may feel a little disappointed for that.
@Lucky12 (767)
• United States
19 Jan 09
just with a little responses you earn some money. I mean I am new here so I might not get alot of responses. I wish you the best and don't feel bad if you get alittle bit responses. All you have to do is just keep on trying and making more disscussions. Sometimes with some disscussions people might not be interested or they are afraid that they will post a response that will hurt someone.