Do not be discouraged by lack of responses

I agree megamatt one should not be discouraged as topics are endless here and while many at times are not online, there are times that a topic gets many while other times not. What I always suggest to others is that they should respond to others discussions and many will remember their quality participation and remember then as soon as they see their topics on the boards. Also important for members to start discussions that interest them, so they have a lot to comment back with to their responders. Some members do not comment back to their responders and to later find their topics get less responses there after. Main reason is that a lot of responders place quality responses and research at times too. When they do not receive a comment they are left to wonder if the member read what they wrote. I try to keep started discussions to a very low minimum as I get many and it can be overwhelming. Therefore, I rather continually further a topic as opposed to starting several. Yes keep plugging away and with time one will be certainly surprised.

I do not generally get discouraged by a lack of responses on my discussions. Of course, if a person is genuinely interested in a subject and really wants to discuss it with other people, then it is a natural feeling to be disappointed if there are absolutely no responses, because then there is no discussion. If only a few people respond, on the other hand, then there can be a very active discussion on the topic, so there would be no reason to be disappointed, in my opinion.

i'm not discouraged as its other mylot members choice to comment on my discussions. either they do or they don't. end of story.

It is not about the quantity of responses our discussions receive, it is about the quality of the responses and how we feel about them. One hesrtfelt response is worth more than one hundred empty ones any day.

A pleasant day Megamatt, You are indeed right in your statment "do not be discouraged by lack of responses". Maybe the set of responders during the time you have posted the question was not aware of your topic. For this reason, the question left unanswered. Another thing is that, since there are a lot of questions being posted here in mylot, the turn-over posting was too quick, due to this reason, your posted topic was easily replaced by the new ones. Hence, as a consequence, when your topic discussion was left unanswered, it will be burried downwards by the new topic being posted. Nevertheless, it is indeed right not to be discouraged. Just try to pose again another topic to be discussed. As they say, try and try until you succeed.

i AGREE WITH megamatt. not all the topics can get responses in high numbers. for me there were topics wherein I got 30+ responses. In a few less than 5. that is ok.

Hello Dear Megamatt! You are right! Every time every body can't get a bumper number of responses! Some times its yours day and some times may be it is some one Else's ! Though we all know that the number of responses we get for our discussion may not have direct influence on our earnings, but getting no good number of responses definitely pinches one and to some extent the Morales are also bit goes down! But then I feel one really should not take this very seriously because many a times there are many factors responsible for making a discussion down below at the bottom for the reasons quoted below! I think the topics pertaining to a particular topic like a particular sport or particular country may not get good responses are the members who are not interested in such topics may not touch topics at all! For example for the people who are not from common wealth countries Cricket is a 'Strange Game' and they wonder what is going on if we start a discussion about cricket! Similarly if some one initiates a topic pertaining to country's election people from other countries may not have any interest at all in participating in such discussions! Time of posting a discussion also plays a major role in getting responses! I think people are having no mood to participate in this forum during the week ends and other holidays as they want to enjoy their week ends some where out side the home. So during this time we may end up in getting less number of responses! Similarly the during the office timings and the time when many people are returning back from their work place, is not an appropriate time to post a discussion as there would be few members as takers! Serious type of discussions are not liked by many members here! I think basically members come on this site to have some nice and fun filled time while making few cents! Having had a hectic time and day's tension , no body want to enter a serious discussion as far as possible! Lighter discussions which don't require any home work or statistical support tend to get more responses as every body is having some thing or other to add to such simple day to day discussions! Discussions with humour definitely fetches more responses! Having a good number of friends on this forum definitely helps to get good number of responses if we are regularly responding them! This is a sort of mutual thing! The chances of getting more responses get increased if a member is sincere enough to comment on each and every response! People tend to avoid the members who simply start a discussion just to forget that they have done so! Personally I don't like such attitude of the members who never come back to the discussion started by them to comment on the responses they get! Thus there are many such factors which are responsible for altering the number of responses! So I think one shouldn't get dishearten and instead should try to improvise oneself in the areas discussed above if at all they lack in any of these! Thanks for the discussion! I liked participating in it!

That is true, not everyone is going to get a lot of responses. I think when questions are too specific and don't go out to a wide audience or is not something everyone shares that it is more difficult. Like if you ask a question about computer technology or a specific book, only a small percentage of other members may have any knowledge about those things, therefore getting responses will be more difficult.

hi megamatt. when i first started at mylot, i can say that i was one of those people who got disappointed when the discussion i started didn't get as many responses as i expected. go to one of my earlier discussions and you can hear crickets. these discussions are the virtual 'ghost towns' of mylot!!! lol! nowadays, i really wouldn't mind if there are 10 or 100 replies in my discussions. i now rate my success in mylot in terms of how fast i reach payout in a given month. lol! seriously, as long as i can participate in discussions actively i'm happy. i'm contented starting a discussion once in a while but it's ok if i spend my whole day just responding to others discussions.

Unfortunately for me most of my responses get very few responses. Here and there I might get one with a lot. Mostly few though and it can be pretty disappointing. But indeed, you just need to keep on keepin' on.

There is a whole gamut of activity here and creating topics is just one element. There are good days and bad days for anything in life and I don't think it is a big issue if one does not get responses. There could be several reasons why users have not responded.

Thank you for the encouragement. I am one of the people here who gets discouraged by lack of responses. Somehow the lack of it tells me that some people are unable to relate to what I am willing to share or others have no opinion on the topic at all. On bad days, this really affects and sometimes, prevents me from actually posting topics and participating in discussion, afraid that somebody won't be at least interest or not able to relate. As much as possible, I try to be relatedable to everybody here. But of course, not everybody is the same as me. Perhaps I will go back on starting and posting topics when something inspiring and interesting comes along. Thanks again.

hi there. yeah i have seen those similar discussion about feeling down about getting a few to none responses to their discussions. it happens to me too but i don't really feel bad about it, although it would be really great if there would be more responses, meaning what topic i have started was really interesting. but well, that's how it is here on mylot, we have our own ups and downs here too hehehe but just as long as we just keep on working here then we would be even more happy with the results - being able to help others through our advices, gaining friends, and also earning yeah just keep posting guys and enjoy mylotting!!!

Hello megamatt, I never get discouraged to see i have got lesser responses on my discussion and never expected that i would receive responses like Mysd do get on her topics.Everyone has its own image & also it depends on how much interesting is your topic. I remember when i joined MYLOT and started discussion i got 3 responses on first discussion.Had i been discouraged i would have left MYLOT but did not and now when i started my last discussion recently i got 20 responses i know 20 is not a big number but then i never get discouraged by it.