How to attract more people to your discussion

@saqi78 (1402)
Malaysia
October 26, 2010 6:53am CST
I started different discussion, I got some response from friends in my list and from those who are not in my list. I want that more discussions should be there on my topic. There are different ways to attract people on a certain topic. What do you suggest that how to attract people to you topic or discussion At least one suggestion please:
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10 responses
@aaronfyzeon (1919)
• Philippines
3 Nov 10
By posting a really interesting and intriguing topic will garner a lot of responses. All you have to do is at least post 5 topics that came out of your mind because you will never know which one will be really interesting from other members. What seems to be interesting for me might not really be catchy to other people. But sometimes, the most simple thing that will just pop out inside my mind would really merit a numerous responses. Thus, you will have the chance to post comments to each of the person who responded to that certain topic and you will just have a single thought and not divert the message or the idea that you want to post.
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• Philippines
3 Nov 10
You are absolutely welcome. It is what I do and that is how I get a lot of responses from that particular topic. I really would not mind if the other topics that I have posted is not that interesting at all for them. I will have a reason then to thank all of the members who spent time responding and tackle about some of their concerns as well which will also be a credit for you if you have posted a good comment. A real good chance to raise your reputation.
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@saqi78 (1402)
• Malaysia
3 Nov 10
Very good suggestion my friend, it is really notable that make 5 or 6 interesting discussions and you ll find a lot of responses from them. I really appreciate the idea Thanks for such a nice response...:)
@saqi78 (1402)
• Malaysia
3 Nov 10
Very nice thumbs up for you dear....:)
@mhypie03 (683)
• Philippines
27 Oct 10
I am a newbie here and haven't posted my own discussion as I find it a lot easier to respond to other discussions. I am not a very good writer but I believe most people can relate to life stories that's why those get more responses.
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@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
27 Oct 10
hi mhypie, welcome to mylot. Why don't you test the water? You never know your strength until you have tried to create a discussion. Not everyone here is a writer and we welcome newbies discussions so we can jointly support you. Have fun!
@saqi78 (1402)
• Malaysia
27 Oct 10
Welcome dear mhypie, dont worry I am also a newbie and look how many responses I got from senior member. Here people are very cooperative and they ll guide you at every place if you need any help, so dont worry, just start any thing interesting and new and then look for responses. Yeah you are right for newbie it is good to get some experience by discussing on other forum/topics, in this way you ll get familiar with other members and you can get responses from them. Thanks and welcome on board...
@youless (114117)
• Guangzhou, China
27 Oct 10
A good topic is important. You have to think out a simple but attractive topic and perhaps more people will be interested in discussing it. And of course it is better that you have more friends there. I love China
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@saqi78 (1402)
• Malaysia
27 Oct 10
This is new idea for me that you have more friends, I was thinking that just give response in other discussion in this way I can get more responses but I think friend list is also important... Thanks for sharing this idea..
• United States
26 Oct 10
I do not mind having few or lots of responses. I suppose it depends on what I am trying to discuss. One piece of advance when you do post though, try and keep away from polls as they will get deleted. There was one you were asking which you prefer with travel, that saqi78 is a poll and anyone who knows the rules knows that the discussion will be deleted. There are times discussions of such do not get deleted not because it is not a poll but because admin has not caught up with it and let's say I comment on it now and admin is around or one of the avid troll members will report it. So just a piece of advice, there are ways around such a discussion instead of saying which one do you prefer change it a bit to say something like when I travel I have these options and they are sort of confusing what do you suggest. wink/wink It is not that we intentionally skip over them as some of us do answer it and try and remind the members of the guidelines, but imagine doing this all day and well once the discussion gets deleted so does our answer so it is difficult to try and earn per say and to have all efforts deleted. Many of us use to do this all day long to find that we too are at risk of getting banned from the site of we respond way too many times breaking the rules. So just a word of caution to you. Attracting members is not really about the actual discussion, as sometimes it is simply a matter of timing. Depends when members are online and sometimes there are so many discussions started at one time that a discussion gets buried in the tabs. So Good Luck to you, I hope this one gets you many responses.
• United States
27 Oct 10
You are very welcome and a very successful membership to you.
@saqi78 (1402)
• Malaysia
26 Oct 10
Oh, really very good discussion and very nice caution. I was unknown to this, thanks for sharing this. The thing for which I started that one discussion is to get more responses and I didnot know that it comes under poll and polls are being deleted. One thing, I want an answer from you, I discussed it earlier too, that during discussion, you get some responses from friends, then is it necessary for you to comment on each response in your discussion. As I told earlier in one of my comment that I just go through all comments and I see during discussion the points raised are well answered by other members, so I dont think my answer to be necessary. But if I dnot comment on any response, ll it make any difference Please rep
@saqi78 (1402)
• Malaysia
26 Oct 10
Thanks for the information, Actually from yesterday, I have started a couple of topics and now I am managing those, and it is quite hard for a beginner to manage. I think for a beginner instead of making discussion and more topics responses to the others discussion is recommended.. Thanks for keeping this thread alive
@angelic123 (1108)
• United States
26 Oct 10
be truthful to your discussion, don't start a discussions that you just made up, just to have a discussion. Create a feeling to mylotters that you are like talking to a friend.
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@saqi78 (1402)
• Malaysia
26 Oct 10
That a very good idea for making a discussion, put your feelings into words, what an idea Thanks angelic
• Indonesia
27 Oct 10
Promise earning profits without really doing a lot of things have attracted more people to the discussion. But if the discussion really work this way? all that is required from you is only the merchants who participate in your discussions. Then after that, you almost do not do anything but wait for anyone to participate in your discussion and then collect your profits.Easy, right? Well, not quite often.
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@saqi78 (1402)
• Malaysia
27 Oct 10
Yeah, it looks easy but it require efforts, but if we look it from other side of mirror we are involved with our friends, and it is just like any place where we discuss any thing with our friends, we respond on their responses and I think it is important to have some reputation in your friends, if you have good reputation then every one will like to share h/his idea with you. Thanks for participation and new way to discuss in the thread, it is opening new doors...
@few00cent (2183)
• India
26 Oct 10
I am not sure but ya people usually look for common topic discussion and they like to make post on easy discussion where everyone can input there thought.if start a discussion on something where user can give there opinion than sure you will get more response.
@saqi78 (1402)
• Malaysia
27 Oct 10
Yeah, I think it is necessary to start a simple, friendly and common topic, which attract more people, and commenting back is more necessary to keep your thread or discussion alive. Thanks dear few00cent, Its my pleasure that a senior member like you participated in my discussion...
@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
26 Oct 10
Posting discussions after discussions without giving your comments to your responses will deter others from responding to your future discussions. Being a newbie here it is good that you get into the habit of going back to your discussions and comment to your responses. This has far reaching effects. Again you need sometime to make your presence felt here and by responding to others discussions it opens the gateway of self introduction. I hope my suggestion and the rest of the responses here will help you to establish yourself here and attract more responses to your discussions.
@saqi78 (1402)
• Malaysia
26 Oct 10
Thanks for your suggestion, I am still in way of learning and the response on this discussion is great, I am getting much better now.
@boogerman (1544)
• Philippines
26 Oct 10
Hello there! Well, there are several factors why a discussion gets a lot of responses. First, make sure that the topic was not yet posted by other users, using the search box above can help you check it. If similar discussions appear when you search and still want to start your own discussion about it, try to tweak it, means you have to put some twist in it to make a bit difference. Keeping the discussion active is an important factor because users love to respond on discussions where the starter replies on the responses received, from the word itself, it was intended for users to "discuss" about a certain topic and in a discussion, there is exchanging of ideas so you have to do it, set it as a responsibility and you will get what you want, you can attract more users to respond on your topics. Having many friends can also help because when you start a new discussion, there are chances that your friends will see in their home page that you started a new topic and they will try to view it. On the other side, you might ask, "Why does recycled topics, those that are nothing of substance, and the like can get many responses?" Well, I can't answer that one, the reason is uncertain but maybe because such kind of topics are easy to discuss and maybe intended just for fun. When you see users doing it, try to guide them so that they will not be disappointed when they got their topics deleted due to some violation. Have a nice day!
@saqi78 (1402)
• Malaysia
26 Oct 10
Very nice point to search about topic in topix box and make some twisting. I like it. Thing which I need to know whether, it is linked with more earnings, in my mind, more responses means more earnings. And one thing more, which I got during this discussion, what is effect of managing discussion?
@jugsjugs (12967)
26 Oct 10
I find that with alot of people replying to discussions it is very hard to keep up responding to all of the responses that we get.I find that there are the obvious ways to get people interested in discussions like there are alot of people that will read the discussion to see if it is something that has happened to them also if they find it easy to respond to the discussion,rather than just having to answer yes or no.It all depends if they are interested in the discussion,not everyone likes the same things or have tried or done the same things.
@saqi78 (1402)
• Malaysia
26 Oct 10
So it is good to search whether your topic is discussed earlier or not, if yes then what innovation you can bring in your idea. Thanks for the response, and I think your suggestions are valuable and should be noted Thanks