When do you think it is time to evaluate your NO RESPONSE posts?
By Ann LeFlore
@poehere (15123)
French Polynesia
November 12, 2015 9:38pm CST
Hey everyone wake up and start looking at how many posts you have landing in “No Response”. I can see one or two posts that a person writes might end up in this area, but if you have more than 10 posts that land in this area it’s time to do something about it.
1. Open the post that has ended up in “No Response”.
2. Check you title – is it interesting? Will it jump out at person and make them want to read it? Or is it boring, too long, or just plain not interesting?
3. Check you first two lines that introduce your topic. Do they catch the readers attention and make them want to open it and read it? Is you topic and introduction interesting for all members of the site or a few targeted members?
4. Consider revising your title. If your post ended up here and has been here for sometime it might be a good idea to edit your title or the content of your post.
Think about –
1. Deleting this post. If it has sat in this area for a week or longer nobody is likely to read this. Why not delete this discussion to free up some server space. You aren’t earning on this discussion so why keep it there?
2. Delete the post and start again. Ask yourself why nobody read this. Now sit down and write it again. This time consider your topic, your introductions, and the interest level you can attract.
3. Start spending a little more time on reading “Top Rated” and “Hot” topic. Figure out what made them so great. Why did so many people answer this topic? What was their title? How did they open the discussion?
4. Consider limiting your discussion to 1 a day. Spend a little time choosing your subject. This can be easy if you spend more time reading published discussion that draw a lot of attention. Now try and model your topic after a few of these. You will gain more views and a wider audience will read your work.
Is there anything I have missed?
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29 responses
@GardenGerty (169450)
• United States
13 Nov 15
It sounds like a good idea. I just hope the people who need to read this will. Maybe I should suggest this to some of them. Or would that be rude? Your advice here is solid.
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
13 Nov 15
I was thinking on the same lines to suggest this to a few people but I can't. I really don't think it would be rude to do this. It really might help them to stop and think before they post. I did see one person who had 4 or 5 in a row and I counted over 15 on there. I did not go down so far and gave up. There seemed to be a lot of them.
I wrote a few discussion in the beginning that received no attention at all. I then figured out what I was doing wrong. I ended up deleting them to save server space. I wrote them again or revised them and changed the title. Then they attracted readers and I had a few responses on them.
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@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
13 Nov 15
Awesome writeup and an excellent article with the prefect advice for all who have these Zero Responses.
What misses here is - your friends (or people who are following you). I have to point this out because when I had my first discussion here, I had almost zero friends. And it did have zero responses for a few days. During the few days, I interacted with many around and earned my first few friends who were happy to find my discussion and reply to it.
Next important thing I would add - Have patience. And Do not give up.
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@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
13 Nov 15
@poehere Thanks dear.
Another thing that I think can be used - by people who have been around for a while, have friends and still somehow, it is a bad day and they get zero responses, they may send a PM to one of their friends and get the things rolling.
But yes, this above thing has been controversial already, so I would suggest that use is very rarely, and select a friend or two very carefully - as you have been friends, you should be aware of whether the friend would consider this as a Spam or a need of some help.
And yes, I must also mention that you have been really a good MyLotter who has understood the things much better than me and also I see that you have a very helping nature. Lord Bless you and keep doing the great work for the good of the community
. I have been loving your discussions.
. I have been loving your discussions.1 person likes this
@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
13 Nov 15
@thesids That is some good advice on this one. They could ask a person to help them if they are friends with them. I have tried to help a few people here and they were thankful for the help. Then another one just went and did everything that I suggest they not do. And they keep doing it over and over again. So I basically gave up.
If a person wants to listen they will. If they want to improve they will seek help or advice so they can improve. But if a person decides this is all they care about then there is not much we can do to help them.
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
13 Nov 15
You are so right. I almost forgot if you don't get an answer on your discussion right away give it time. Don't write another one too fast and post 5 in a row. This doesn't give anyone time to read your discussion and interact with it.
Thanks for the excellent tips and points you have left here. I just hope a few more people will read this that need a little help. I hope they will find the help here on the site between this post and so many others ones that people have taken time to write to help them.
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@Rosekitty (19368)
• San Marcos, Texas
13 Nov 15
Very good ideas but sadly some of the ones who keep making discussions and then ignoring them won't be here to read this..I still wish they had to read guidelines before they could start discussions.
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@TexanTornado (5573)
• United States
17 Nov 15
Ok, maybe I should change my avatar to a devil for I know I can be mean.
However, this is my take on your discussion. I personally quit/refuse to respond to discussion of someone who has no desire to use this site for the purpose in which it was created, ' to interact'. Someone who posts 5-10 discussions a day, and don't leave their realm or even bother to comment on the responses they get.
I think a lot of people over a period of time, tend to feel the way I do, leaving those posters with no one to respond to their discussions. Hence they start going into the 'no response' tab.
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@TexanTornado (5573)
• United States
18 Nov 15
@poehere Oh ok, I didn't know of the issue. I only go there every so often. Lately I haven't had time to make my way over there. Thanks for the heads up on it though. It's good to know.
@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
18 Nov 15
You are so right. However, I did find a few in there that shouldn't be their. They had a link posted at the end which blocked people from responding. After it was fixed they had a lot of responses on it. Certain people who have tons of no responses I pass them by now because I now for a fact they will never change. Others are new and nobody knows there are there. These are the ones I feel bad for and try to give them a good head start.
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
18 Nov 15
@TexanTornado I guess I would of never found this either but after I wrote this I went there to see it. I examined a lot of them and found some problems. I tried to help out and give some advice. Most people were happy but a few could of cared less because the next day you saw another 10 in the same place. That is when I skip them by and don't waste my time on them. But for new people it is a nice way to welcome them.
In there I found a young girl who lives in China. She was trying so hard to teach us about her culture and some of the beautiful places there. She was having some problems getting her point across. I gave her a few pointers and suggestion on how to do this. The next article she wrote showed so much improvement. She was understand how to make these places come alive and people to see them as she did.
I like this and it makes me feel good to help people like this. I know the issues and problems of learning a second language and learning how to write in English. I am sue if I had to write in her language I would not do anywhere near as good as she has done.
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@sallypup (69168)
• Centralia, Washington
13 Nov 15
I'm with The Horse: who decides what a HOT topic is? What if its my life mission to be a huge bore? What if I do not want to write about murderous happenings or celebrities? Guess I'm heading over to write some more about let's see, the time of day or the weather.
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
13 Nov 15
I think it is decided on the number of responses the post has. When a post attracts a lot of attention and has a lot of responses it is move to hot. From what I see this is sort of how it works. I guess we all feel like this from time to time. I feel like my life is a bore some days and then others I might find it interesting. I look forward to seeing you report on the weather. Please make it interesting and totally unique.
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@NeldaHoxie (1381)
• United States
13 Nov 15
I honestly think you are making MyLot way too complicated.
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@TheHorse (238297)
• Walnut Creek, California
13 Nov 15
@NeldaHoxie I've had good days and bad days. And I agree that the "randomness factor" is always there. But if I had ten posts with no comments, I would step back and think about what I might be doing wrong. I just submitted a heart-felt post that has only one comment after half an hour. But I can almost guarantee you that it will have at least three comments by tomorrow morning. Even if it turns into one of my "oh well" posts, it will have SOME discussion on it.
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@NeldaHoxie (1381)
• United States
13 Nov 15
@TheHorse I think there are so many variables that it's more efficient just to enjoy the community. There's no controlling who's online at any one moment.
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@dpk262006 (58679)
• Delhi, India
13 Nov 15
You have given some very useful tips and suggestions for the users who do not receive any response to their discussions.
It hasn't happened with me that I started a discussion and none of the users responded to it. I am lucky in that respect. I don't start new discussions frequently.
It hasn't happened with me that I started a discussion and none of the users responded to it. I am lucky in that respect. I don't start new discussions frequently.@dpk262006 (58679)
• Delhi, India
14 Nov 15
@poehere in my view you could give ideas to those users who do not receive any response by responding to their discussions. To my mind, if they genuinely want to learn and improve, they will appreciate your move.
Yes, you are very right that sometimes changing the title of the discussion and slight modifications in the text could fetch good number of responses.
@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
13 Nov 15
It is not so hard to start a new discussion. I was almost considering trying to go through some of them and give them an idea how they could improve. But I don't think this one would work and they would end up angry with me for trying to help them.
In the first few days on the site I did start one or two posts that generated 0 interest. I deleted them, revised the text and changed the title. Wow now they were noticed. It is simple logic to do this and get a decent amount of people reading your work.
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
14 Nov 15
@dpk262006 If you had read a few more of my work you would find out I have done this one already. I spent a long time yesterday doing just that. I cleaned up tons of them in there and gave suggestion to a lot of people where sat in there for so long. I am not even sure some of them are still here or not.
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@celticeagle (189838)
• Boise, Idaho
18 Nov 15
Good advice here. Don't write another one too fast. I see people writing ten odd, uninteresting posts every day and lucky if they get one response. Every few days is enough.
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
18 Nov 15
I haven't written any on here in a few days. I think the last one I did was a few days back and it was about a tradition here on the islands. Not so much feed back on this one so I sort of am leaving it for now and waiting a bit before writing again. I have a funny idea I might do up now or I just might wait on this one. Not sure I am considering it now.
@else34 (13515)
• New Delhi, India
14 Nov 15
@poehere My biggest problem is that English is not my mother tongue and I don't have a very good knowledge of the language.That's why I have to literally struggle to create a discussion.Each of my discussions has been written with hard labour and with the best of my ability.If I try to write them in a better way,I am sure I would end up making them worse.....Hope,you understand my problem.
@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
13 Nov 15
Thank you so much. The thought that goes behind the topic is what matters most. Just to post every waking moment of a day or night is not so interesting for people to read. I see some good post in no response but they are limited to a certain audience. Some topics in there aren't ones people want to start a discussion on because they might not end well. Some political and religious ones do end up there for this very reason.
I do feel bad for a person who has so many. I don't know if we should try and give some sort of response on them or just leave them. I have mixed feeling. I would love to respond to them but what could I say "That is very nice" I am happy for you or this sounds like fun. Then that in one way is breaking the rules for mindless answers.
I just think a few of them if they were written again they might draw a little attention. But if the person who wrote them does not see it this way then I guess we just leave them there and let them pile up.
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@Drosophila (16568)
• Ireland
13 Nov 15
@poehere Yep, i just go into there.. and post a couple of comments.. there are some good stuff there,
@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
14 Nov 15
@Drosophila I just spent 1 hour there and I think I answered around 20 of them to try and help a few people out. Some of the stuff that is in there are the brand new posts that people just posted. They will go there until they receive a comment. The ones I tried to answer were the ones towards the end that have been there for a long long time.
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
13 Nov 15
I remember reading your topic back then. I did not go into the major detail here that you did. But since your post I have seen the no response bin fill up even more. I am not sure if these people care or not. I feel bad for them but a mindless post is very hard to comment on.
I had one or two posts in the beginning that ended up there. I finally deleted them, changed my text body, opening sentences and title and posted them again. Wow amazing this time it worked. I did get a few people interested in them and a few responses on them. I didn't get a lot but a few is better than nothing. The posts I did were not so much general but sort of geared to a special type of person who would benefit from them.
@TheHorse (238297)
• Walnut Creek, California
13 Nov 15
To heck with "Hot Topic." I've seen some lame posts there. Just read MY posts for a lesson in brilliance. Just kidding. I was just reading some No Response posts (one of the places I go). I'll have to check the ones that have put down roots there and see if there's a pattern.
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
13 Nov 15
Well in just a few scrolls down the page i did see one person have almost 20. I saw a few in a roll too and it was like one after another. I think they should decide to clean out this mess and clean up the site a little.
Yes you posts are brilliant but so are mine 
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@TheHorse (238297)
• Walnut Creek, California
13 Nov 15
@poehere We are a walking tutorial on brilliance. I'll head over there and look for the person with many unread posts. I think I remember noticing that too. It's important to remember here that it's all about interaction, not about posting a lot. Ironically, my "Start a New Discussion" tab has disappeared. I can't submit a post right now! Ijust sent Alex a message about it. I guess I'll be a "commenting fool" until it gets fixed.
@norcal (4889)
• Franklinton, North Carolina
14 Nov 15
So far I have not had any with no response. The fewest responses I got was on my post about the TV show Survivor Cambodia: 2nd Chance. I was excited about the latest episode, but the only responses I got were from people informing me that they don't watch the show. I guess that's not a good subject for myLot.
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
14 Nov 15
One or two isn't the problem but if you have 30 then it might be time to think on this one. I found one in there today and found a problem with it. When you hit respond it was blocked because of the link. I sent a PM to the person and they fixed it. Now people can respond to it. I worked in there today and I answered maybe 25+ and I found like 6 spam messages and 9 short one line posts. So a lot of the stuff in there at the beginning is brand new discussions. I went to the end to start with because the new ones come quickly and they leave quickly from there.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
13 Nov 15
Rgere There cannot be many members who have more than 1 or 2 discussions with no responses, unless they were flooding the site with discussions. The number of comments that a discussion of mine receives varies widely, so in my case if I achieved none I would simply consider it to be a result of pure chance and ignore it.
@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
13 Nov 15
You might want to go and take a look. I saw one person who had over 15 of them and a lot of them were right in a roll. I would suggest that you try and scroll down through them and take a look. That is what made me think of this to help them. They are flooding the site with nonsense posts daily and it is not just one or two at times it can be up to 10.
@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
18 Nov 15
I was there yesterday and made some comments I went further down and there must have been twenty discussions by the same person that to me were boring so I did not respond to any of them. That person needs to start thinking about discussing something interesting and not posting so many that no one wants to read.
@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
18 Nov 15
Yes I have noticed this for a very long time. I have given suggestions instead of writing to just comment she would earn a lot more. No she can't get the idea in her head that is how it works. I just now skip them over and pass them buy and don't even bother to open them up. I don't see a single discussion she will comment on. I think this is another reason because she won't comment on any of ours and she won't respond if we do comment on hers. So what's the use.
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
19 Nov 15
@Marcyaz That is what I had to start doing. She did attack one of my post. I should of cosen my words a little bit more wisely when I wrote it. But anyhow I did delete it and moved on. But anyhow after I deleted mine she went on a rant over this and made a big deal of the whole things. That is why I think she is very young.
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
25 Nov 15
Oh please don't be angry. I think this is a wonderful thing. You don't want to be sitting out there in no response land wondering why your discussion was abounded, ignored and cast aside. You are doing wonderful and people pay a lot of attention to what you've written. Keep up the good work and may none of your post land in no responses.
@KnehKnah (3582)
• Philippines
14 Nov 15
@poehere Wow! That is so kind of you, my friend! I've read a comment from one of them (who has, I guess, more than 15 posts without response). He/She said he/she earned $1 each during the weekend. So, it made me think. Maybe, even if his/her posts get no response, he/she is very good in discussions. But why is his/her posts not having responses? Where are his/her friends?
@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
14 Nov 15
I tried to help some of them today. 25 to be exact. I commented and gave them some very helpful tips today. They were so excited and happy and they sent me a lot of very nice messages. So maybe they will follow through with this post and also some of the tips I offered them.
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@the_thinker (340)
• India
13 Nov 15
I will patiently wait for 29 days before deciding further action.
@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
13 Nov 15
Yes you can do this one. But the longer it sits in one place with no responses the less likely it will be read. I feel so bad for this to happen and it would be so nice to give some advise to people. I just don't do it because they might not like the advice and then be angry with me.
@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
13 Nov 15
@the_thinker I don't get your question sorry.
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@dorianna (509)
• United States
25 Nov 15
Is twenty minutes too long to wait? Just kidding. Just posted one that hasn't any response yet. I am so impatient. I follow what you are saying and agree wholeheartedly. If it doesn't get responses at all in a few days I am going to edit or ditch it. A good discussion should get responses pretty quick, especially if you have many followers.
@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
25 Nov 15
OH please do not worry. I have noticed I have waited hours and some times day and then all of a sudden someone sees this and it goes wild. I don't know if there is a rhyme or reason on the site. I also notice when I am sleeping I can wake up to a flood of notifications and a lot of people saw this. I think waiting is good and I don't post daily. But on the other hand this is me. Each person has to find what works best for them and then stick with it.
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