3 Million Discussions?
@owlwings (43897)
Cambridge, England
November 17, 2016 1:55am CST
Rather more than 10 years ago (in April 2006), MyLot opened its doors for the first time and began paying members for posting discussions, responses and comments. Since then, the members have, between them, posted three million discussions, 18 million responses and getting on for 27 million comments.
A little simple maths shows that, on average, each discussion has received 6 responses and about 9 comments As a matter of fact, the current average (over the last year or so) is more like 8 responses and 14 comments per discussion.
I really wouldn't like to estimate the number of words that have been typed! What a lot of real life stories, anguish and joy has been expressed here, though!
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@WorDazza (15826)
• Manchester, England
17 Nov 16
If you add up the number of discussions on similar sites and discussion forums all over the word there must be billions and billions of discussions floating around in the ether. It goes to show one thing. We humans love to communicate!!
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@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
17 Nov 16
That's very true! How different it is, though, from the average bus or railway carriage where regular travellers know each other to probably about the same extent that we know each other on here! Nobody here is buried in their newspaper or staring vacantly out of the window, avoiding even eye contact with their fellow travellers!
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@Mike197602 (15504)
• United Kingdom
17 Nov 16
I haven't added much to the discussion total but a fair bit to the response/comment tally
Must admit though...with sites going down every so often I do have a worry that some day mylot will go too
Hopefully it will be ok and the money they make is enough to make it worth their while carrying on.
Must admit though...with sites going down every so often I do have a worry that some day mylot will go too
Hopefully it will be ok and the money they make is enough to make it worth their while carrying on.2 people like this
@Mike197602 (15504)
• United Kingdom
17 Nov 16
@owlwings from my point it isn't the money it's the social aspect.
When old mylot stopped paying I stayed for a while but it became a ghost site (with regards to the friends I used to have and speak to every day) except for you, jj and dawn from what I remember.
Then it became a spamfest so I just stopped coming here.
If it stopped paying again I'd still come on here as long as there were decent discussions...but I suppose if the money aspect goes a lot of members will disappear (as on tiny cent) and look for new money sites
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@amitkokiladitya (171988)
• Agra, India
17 Nov 16
Yes it a huge collection of all possible emotions..
Name it and you can surely find it
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@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
17 Nov 16
That is amazing 
!
I rarely look at any of the numbers, but it's pretty cool when someone does the math (especially since I am not good at it 
) and pumps out these statistics. That would amount to A LOT of words - and more are added each second. Can you imagine how the numbers will stack up in another decade?
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I rarely look at any of the numbers, but it's pretty cool when someone does the math (especially since I am not good at it ) and pumps out these statistics. That would amount to A LOT of words - and more are added each second. Can you imagine how the numbers will stack up in another decade? 1 person likes this
@changjiangzhibin89 (17239)
• China
17 Nov 16
To my shame,I haven't made that many contributions to the number of 3 Million,though I have been here since 2010.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
17 Nov 16
now I wonder how many words! lol
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@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
17 Nov 16
I could guess (but it would be very ball-park) at an average of maybe 100 words per discussion, 50 words per response and 25 words per comment. That's just a feeling I have and not based on any research or actual statistics. Based on that, it will be around two thousand million words typed! That is about the same number of words as 60,000 copies of the King James Bible.
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@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
17 Nov 16
@Jessicalynnt Sadly, mostly hot air, evanescent and of no account but I know that there are some real gems in there!
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
17 Nov 16
@owlwings that is a massive massive number of words!
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