Do your posts ever get any responses?

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I don't usually have trouble drumming up a few replies when I start a thread, but I'm an absolute serial killer of threads in progress. Typically the more in-depth and and well reasoned my post is, the greater the chance that it will effectively kill the thread.

what would you say the reason for this would be? don't most folk reply to the OP rather than the last post? just wondering...

I've started threads that have gotten little replies, and I've started threads that have gotten close to 100 replies.

*shrugs* I rarely start topics. I'm not too fussed if my posts are replied to. If there's an audience, good; if not, never mind.

I frequently feel invisible

You look invisible.

there are times when it is preferable to be invisible.

Thanks?

I have had posts that I start not get many responses. Those are usually ones I write when I am upset about something though. I do not think a lot of people get my haven posts... either that or I just talk too much and bore the hell out of them. I do not know. I do not start many threads in general, but I have started one or two in the last month or so and they have gotten a decent amount of responses. I would start more posts, but I never have much to say on my own... I prefer to respond to people. It takes the pressure off of me to reply to any responses I might get. Replying is overwhelming to me a lot of the time. I guess it is good my posts are not usually successful. Heh. I ought to just stick to responses to others.

I hate it when that happens.

I like to make threads pertaining to my special interests. Understandably, if it's a fairly broad topic, or at least one that a lot of people are familiar with, it'll get more responses. But the more narrow and esoteric a topic is, the less people will respond.

I felt a little frustrated when I recently made a thread about Repo! The Genetic Opera and it only got one response. Then that person linked me to a Repo thread that they made last year, and it had at least 2 pages! I guess that makes sense though, because back then the movie was still fresh in peoples' minds.

Yeah, I get that. I tend to be interested in things from outside of their native time. Everyone else seems to be into what's happening now, and I'm usually digging things up from somewhere else in time. Topicality has to be a large factor in getting people interested in your posts.

It depends on what the topic is. Sometimes my posts gets no response but once, I had this post about bullying and I got 47 replies within 12 hours

Oh good so I'm not the only one.

I thought it was just me or the way I came off to people. I can't tell if I sound rude or "out of it".

Since you guys posted in this thread, we should all start by answering eachother's posts since we know what it feels like to be left out.....< <

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I'm usually posting in PPR, and it's not unusual for the thread to go far afield of the OP's topic and a lot of the back and forth tends to be between posters of opposing viewpoints on the subject at hand. I think the reason that I'm such an effective thread killer is that depending upon the topic I'm very good at both stating my position and anticipating any likely counter arguments and preemptively answering them as well. This would explain why my more thorough and researched posts often stop the debate, since I've usually shot down all the likely objections before they are raised.

I get quite alot of response on my threads that I create and that's normally because I ask common questions to get more responses.

But lately for my threads, I haven't been getting that many since I started posting in less active places plus going through some personal problems with money issues, other than that sometimes I get little responses, it doesn't really bother me as such but it is abit of a shame to not see much responses.


- superboyian

P.s: My tip is in bold.