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[sundaybythefire]

I posted a style and beauty question the other day looking for a recommendation and got 2 replies. Someone has posted almost identical question yesterday and got 50+ replies 🤷🏼‍♀️ Not the first time this has happened to me, just can’t work out why people reply to some posts and not others.

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Just the luck of the draw I reckon. It wont be personal.

It’s totally personal.

Did you post under a different name OP as the search only comes back with 1 reply - this thread.

I think there are various things that can influence responses:
The time you post
The thread title - if it's too precise people won't look unless it's really their thing, too vague and no-one will look
Whether there are enough responses in a cluster to get the thread into trending

Oof. Lol.

Did you post during a weekday when most people were at work? Did you specify what you were looking for in the title or did people have to open it to find out?

I do think Style and Beauty is a very cliquey forum OP.
Plus I agree it depends when you post stuff.
And as MN deliberately tries to push posters to trending threads a lot of other threads get virtually ignored.

@tanstaafl I named changed specifically for this post 😂

It can't be too hard to work out surely?

At any given time there will be differing amounts of people logged on, who feel able to answer or are interested in your threads.

ive noticed this and was just saying it the other day, i post a thread get like 2-3 replies, someone posts a totally mundane thread and gets hundreds 🤣