why dont people respond to good topics

@CrazyP (947)
Canada
November 23, 2006 5:16pm CST
most topics with at loot of good detail get no response? why is this so?
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29 responses
@gifana (4833)
• Portugal
24 Nov 06
I believe it is because a great deal of myLoters believe in quantity and not quality. After all, it takes a little more effort to put your thoughts down (that is if you have any thoughts) and that means you wont make User of the Day.
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@CrazyP (947)
• Canada
24 Nov 06
what does user of the day give you ayways some free money im using this site for imformation/ideas and evertime i try to make a good topic no one replies it really bugs me
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@gifana (4833)
• Portugal
24 Nov 06
I have no idea and I sincerely do not care. I am more interested in learning something new every day to broaden by knowledge. There is no listing for that category so I don't know where it would show up on your earnings.
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@Idlewild (6090)
• United States
24 Nov 06
I agree with these comments. I'd rather take a little time and learn something and help someone else learn something than type a one-word answer to hundreds of different questions. I'd rather go for quality not quantity, and I think it doesn't necessarily hurt your earnings to do so. Yes, you can score a lot of points with short answers, but it seems your earnings are based on "quality" answers (as MyLot admins keep saying) and a better answer has a greater chance of betting a plus rating, which means more $.
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@starr4all (2863)
24 Nov 06
smile - smile
To be honest, I think a lot of people here could give a rats behind what kinds of conversations are going on here. They just care about the fact that they are making money. Which to me, is sad. I like some of the "good" conversations here and I've learned a lot from this site as well.
@gifana (4833)
• Portugal
24 Nov 06
Hear! Hear!
@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
24 Nov 06
They seem to get buried under the other discussions too quickly. Sometimes people don't want to respond to topics that are going to require them to type lengthy answers - slows down their earnings too much.
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• India
24 Nov 06
it depends on the view you have on a particular topic. sometimes it happens that the topic you like the most is the topic which is least liked by others.
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@CrazyP (947)
• Canada
24 Nov 06
well there are many people on this site there must be some people on this site the spam i see on hear is sad i try to keep 2 line min for my self i think thats a good rule to follow
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@gifana (4833)
• Portugal
24 Nov 06
I suffer from an incurable disease......diahrrea of the fingers. Most of my comments on posting and comments on other comments are long and drawn out. I sometimes fail to think that I might be boring people. If so, I apologize from the bottom of my flat feet.
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@Pigglies (9329)
• United States
24 Nov 06
I think people just don't want to "waste" their time with long responses when they could be making a lot of posts and earning money. The way I see it, we're not earning enough money here for me to think of it as a "job". I don't want to waste my time responding to a bunch of stupid posts in hopes of earning a few pennies per hour. I'd rather participate in intelligent discussions and debate important topics. So far, I think this site is proving that you can't buy members that will have the intelligent conversations found on some message boards. While I've found a few great discussions, it seems that the majority of members just do not spend their time thinking about anything important.
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@CrazyP (947)
• Canada
24 Nov 06
that is very true the web masters should change the system so you have to have longer responses or something and mabe the site will have stuff that we can actually talk about
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@Pigglies (9329)
• United States
24 Nov 06
I think the other thing is, sometimes if you post a comment to someone else comment, you don't get a point. And people here want the points. You kind of need to have people replying back and forth to others to have a discussion.
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@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
24 Nov 06
i totally agree with you. most of the topics in DISCUSSIONS WITH NO RESPONSE are really thought evoking and cud have been really informative. but they are without any answers, im really sorry. most of us here are for good quick money and go for random answering, instead of pickin the qualitative ones. we shud concentrate on QUALITY and not on QUANTITY and mylot team shud make sure quality content gets cudos. thanx
@Pigglies (9329)
• United States
24 Nov 06
Good point! I'm always trying to start discussions that will make people think. It seems to be very hard to get people to actually post on them. Some people are just so bad that they shouldn't even be paid for their unintelligible postings in my opinion. It would make the site better to "fire" such people.
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@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
24 Nov 06
its nice knowing ppl sharing the same vibes!!
@suryachalla (1369)
• India
29 Nov 06
That's a fantastic question! I really appreciate it. you literally took the idea right out of my mind! I too have felt the same. I post contemporary and raving issues, yet I have had only 1,2...10 responses! you may please visit my 'discussions posted' page and see them. Nice to find that someone feels like I do!
@CrazyP (947)
• Canada
29 Nov 06
Great minds think alike
@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
27 Nov 06
Sadly a lot of people only want to respond with a no or yes answer and there are plenty of discussions which start off, Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt, or do you like icecream. Sadly this is very true and discussions which ask you to THINK and give a lengthy response as to why this is so, or to get involved in a particular argument or a particular view puts a lot of people off. Trouble is a lot of people don't realise that yes and no response do NOT earn money here. Yes and discussions do quickly get buried. I have seen a lot of really good meaty discussions which deserve to be responded to get only one or two responses yet something like Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt will get 100+ responses...
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@Naseem00 (1996)
• Pakistan
24 Nov 06
most probably because such discussions take lot of typing and thinking resulting in slower earning. People hererespond to stupid discussions more as they dont require much brains and thus getting them more points
@cutepenguin (6431)
• Canada
24 Nov 06
I find that a lot of the time when I post a new topic, it gets buried very quickly. I imagine this happens to a lot of people's topics.
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@CrazyP (947)
• Canada
24 Nov 06
yes i think that the admins should dubble the page lingths that way all the new sones will get a 3 seconds at the most
@fl0urish (5384)
• India
24 Nov 06
whrs the good topic most of them i find one word question...which country ??...like this ??....like that ?? aaaah fed up of answering such questions...
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• United States
24 Nov 06
I know what you mean. I have to refresh the front page many times sometimes before I find something worth responding to. Very rarely do I resond to the simple ones like, favorite color, what time is it, male female. I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels this way.
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@gifana (4833)
• Portugal
24 Nov 06
There are definitely more interesting topics in the unreponded postings....that's for sure. And yes, it is very time-consuming to sift through the recent topics.
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@yainal (1727)
• Germany
24 Nov 06
i guess... to much thinking.. ^_^
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• Chile
26 Nov 06
Not quite sure, but I guess it´s about time. People try to pst more into the topics "this or that" saying "yes or no", rather than making quality posts and some more larger replies. Also, people don´t rate or tend not to rate other´s responds. I do, as that´s my way to say thanks to the ones that read me and post in my discussions. I also try to search for some interesting discussions and try to reply to them as well.
@CrazyP (947)
• Canada
26 Nov 06
can you post a link so that we dont have to go look threw all of yor topics
• Chile
26 Nov 06
http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/306403.aspx Not quite sure if it´s allowed, but it would be nice to have your opinions in there!
• Chile
26 Nov 06
by the way, I´ve made a discussion about ideas to improve mylot, if you want to check it out.Everyone is invited and everyone is more than welcome to make their ideas about how to make it better each day!
@smughal (1026)
• Pakistan
24 Nov 06
i too wonder why people dont.
@CrazyP (947)
• Canada
26 Nov 06
its disappointing people are only hear for the money but if they keep acting and discussing the stuff they do they will someday be ban i hope that they soon realize that its important to post something meaning full
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@donglory (677)
• Ghana
29 Nov 06
may be they do not like it
@donglory (677)
• Ghana
29 Nov 06
may be they do not like it
@mytulip (263)
• China
26 Nov 06
you think your topic is good one,but others don't think so.
@CrazyP (947)
• Canada
26 Nov 06
no thats not it there are 39,719 users on the site so there are people who like everything
@fl0urish (5384)
• India
24 Nov 06
whrs the good topic most of them i find one word question...which country??...like this??....like that?? aaaah fed up of answering such questions...
@CrazyP (947)
• Canada
24 Nov 06
sadly this site is full of these types of people i was hoping that i could talk about meaning full things and still earn but at this rate i cant
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• Indonesia
24 Nov 06
because 'good' is very relative. what's good for you, not necessarily good for others.
@CrazyP (947)
• Canada
24 Nov 06
well there are lots of people i know for fact the lots must share the same opinion
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