When you post an original thread on DU

[catnhatnh]

would you rather get more replies and fewer recommendations or more recommendations and fewer replies? And Why?

[InvisibleTouch]

1. More replies. Keeps the thread kicked. n/t

[catnhatnh]

3. I asked because mine seem to do one or the other...

do you find that to be the case?

[InvisibleTouch]

5. Usually neither, in my case. :)

Now and again something will take off for a while, if there's an argument or debate that starts up over the topic. But I'm deliberately a kind-of low-key poster (one might even say "Invisible" ;)), so my stuff tends not to get a lot of replies or recs. Given the choice, though, I'd take replies over recs.

[maddiejoan]

2. I would say neither

at least not "direct" replies anyway

I consider a thread successful when it generates discussion.

[frazzled]

4. I don't start threads

There's always a ton of them around, and I always find that I can say what I want in a response to one of them. I don't care if anyone reads my posts. After posting on the Internets here and elsewhere since 2001, I don't feel I need to have an "audience" anymore. I'm only interested in a little discussion. Maybe I'll change my mind some day and start a thread again, but for now, I'm happy to remain in the replies.

[EFerrari]

6. Replies because I'd rather read what people think. n/t

[catnhatnh]

7. Ok.... I posted two things tonight that made me ask....

One was a toss-off smart ass remark that got 8 replies (and yes I realize that is not a discussion) and another that I felt was fairly controversial and has been recommended a couple times but has not a single comment....I'm not brilliant so I would not expect to hit a subject never discussed before and run a thread with 300 responses...I guess I'm asking which is "better" to post?

[EFerrari]

12. Doesn't that happen to just about everybody?

One of the surprises of DU is that you don't always know what the board will do with an OP.

Sometimes it seems as though the timing of the thread has something to do with the replies it gets. Too early or too late, fewer replies. Mondays and Fridays, people seem to be too busy to read as much.

[Mythsaje]

8. Depends on the thread.

I like both.

[Greyhound]

9. Replies because they kick, but really I want views.

Posting has been very disappointing to me.

My most popular post with well over 100 replies, and it was some off-the-cuff, pseudo-clever, two liner about what I have no idea. The posts that I've taken time to compose and document and cite that deal with important or significant events and issues are rarely read and drop off the page in a few minutes or hours.

I'd take it personally if I didn't see it repeated over and over.

[KG]

10. replies! thousands and thousands of ego-stroking, self-validating replies!

bwahahahaha!

[TZ]

11. I like replies because I like good discussions

but if I feel a topic is important enough, I like recs, too because that way more people are likely to see it.