One Lined Discussions
@cookiecrumbles (629)
United States
July 1, 2009 12:17am CST
I have found that alot of my friends are writing just one line discussions. The definition of a discussion is to explain, analyze, and compare a topic. It identify issues and provide points and or for or aganist a topic. So I don't understand how just one line can be a discussion. For example: what color crayon would you use to sign your name with if you could? I know that we are here mostly for friendship but people like pyewacket are writers and write fantastic discussions. They are great, thoughtful and insightful. I am nowhere near her writing skill, but I try hard. If I don't have good topic I think will interest everyone I don't even start to type. But I discovered I have several topics that have no replies. Maybe I would have been better of just leaving those discussions to one or two lines. I am totally confused. Do I go for the nice long discussion or the tiny one or two liner? Which one is better. I mean there have been some one or two liners this week that have been really funny. I laughed at one in print and the poor girl took it the wrong way. I told her she was great and told her way to go and she blasted me and got angry and nasty at me for my reply. I was just trying to tell her she had come up with something when I couldn't.
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@Riptide (2758)
• United States
1 Jul 09
Wait just a minute! That lady did not get nasty with you, she never even responded to you! It was me and a couple of other people, who thought you were way out of line!
How dare you accuse somebody of something they didn't do! You are more removed from reality then I thought you were.
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
2 Jul 09
What's that Micheal Jackson song that should become our theme song for CC...........?
Oh yeah.
BEAT IT!
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@AngryKittyMSV (4317)
• United States
3 Jul 09
That is where kijiky gave herself away, when she started screaming in that other discussion and revealed that she had no idea WHO she was even responding too! Typical kijerky. That and her nasty lies and false accusations. I wonder if her God is still telling her what to write?
@mermaidivy (15395)
• United States
1 Jul 09
It is very common and I believe we always see them which I don't blame because I understand lots of people want to do a lot of postings and move on to the next one; all they want is post, post, post to reach the payout or something. When I see discussions like that, I just write my views and move on, I don't really judge if it is too short or whatever because we cannot control how much or how long they want to write, if I don't like the topic, I just skip.
The other thing is I always receive one sentence responses as well, it is okay if the person actually response something that related to my topics, sometimes the content could be the whole different thing... that makes me little mad; so I will just do the same thing too - skip and move on to the next responses.
I hope you find it fun here :-)
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@cookiecrumbles (629)
• United States
2 Jul 09
I am very glad that you can understand what I was saying in my topic.
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
4 Jul 09
I am no where like pyewacket, not a ranter and I am more of a people then an animal lover. And we are not of the same religion or belief. But I hate one line discussions. To me, they are childish and I wonder if the person who started them, joined mylot under false pretenses such as saying that they were their older brother or sister.
As for discussions that no one replied to, well it is not your fault.
Sad though it is,there are some that you cannot reply to and some here say that they are a certain loving type, but by not replying prove they are not. Or a certain hating type - (I suppose if someone wrote "What do you admire about Hitler or Moto?" the pro Nazi or pro Empire of Japan would not dare give an answer to that post.
I would not complement someone on their one-liner. I think they could do better and that it would not give me the wrong impression of them.
I also wonder if they want people to know that they joined myLot for friendship and not that filthy mammon and they do one-liners to prove the former.
The thought just crossed my mind.
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@edmltw (287)
• Singapore
1 Jul 09
You know.. comparing to a one line discussion and your long lengthy passge.
I rather have my 4 lines of discussion. LOL. For those who remembered, check out my best response..
only have one. LOL LOL LOL
My eyes hurt after reading your paragraph XD
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@danger734 (5)
• Canada
1 Jul 09
Most people just reply to a topic in like one or two lines because they are just here to make posts and earn some money, they have no other incentive to post. I would say you should just make discussions that you think are appropriate don't worry about anything else.
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@weebler76 (31)
• United States
1 Jul 09
I agree with you that a discussion "is to explain, analyze, and compare a topic. Sometimes there is not a whole lot to "explain, analyze, and compare". The crayon example you used asked for a very specific answer. It simply asks what color, not why. Just my two cents.
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@angel_of_charm (4134)
• Philippines
1 Jul 09
I hardly start a new discussion since I'm not so good at writing. I seem not to interest people to respond. Either way writing a short one or a lengthy one. I won't start a one line discussion since first and foremost its against Mylot guidelines.
@jellymonty (2352)
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2 Jul 09
I never respond to one line discussions because it looks like that person really isn't interested in what they are talking about and just want to get paid. I would only respond to discussions where I can see that the person starting the discussion is actually interested in what they are talking about. Makes it more interesting to respond and therefore you earn more.. but one line discussions are really annoying and I think the my lot admin shouldn't allow people to post one line discussions.
@khayshenz (1384)
• United States
1 Jul 09
I usually don't go for the one-liners and also the ones that i have ZERO interest in. I just don't know what I would say if I'm not interested in the discussion. I'm also picky with which discussions I posts or make a comment to.
Here's a mylot pet-peeve: Those who posts TONS of new discussions without even thinking it out. UGH! I know two mylotters who are like this and I avoid their discussions like the plague. Most of their discussions are "what's your favorite color?" or "why do you do this" or something non-nonsensical like that. I just don't want to be mean and report them, so I just ignore them.
Just pick and choose the ones that you actually have something to say - that will keep you from being bored in here. Also if you know what you're talking about, you'll highly likely to put something with quality. Those "best responses" add up. And I think you make extra when you get those "best responses."
Good luck and welcome to mylot!
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@TremendousMachine (779)
• Canada
1 Jul 09
This is the internet. People don't want long-winded discussions. Sometimes short answers are the best answers. (Yes, I can't stand inane questions. They do detract from the mylot experience.)
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