I've found the articles that get the most follow-ups are the shortest, simplest, and most generic. Just type, "Fuck this" or "Weee!" and post it and watch what happens.
But the way people talk is fascinating. George Carlin built half his career on it.
Some of my politics posts get followups and others don't. The analytical, detached ones tend to pass uncommented and the ones with passionate raving ending in the St. Crispin's Day speech get the followups.
Looking at my own livejournal, the most responses I've ever gotten was 12: this booky meme (with two of the responses being from me) and this discussion of changing the value of pi (four of the responses were from me). Not sure what the pattern is there ..
I've never understood why some posts on alt.religion.kibology get a lot of responses and others don't, either. Oh well.
The easiest way to get followups on a.r.k is to make a post about penises or something related to penises, or just provide a really obvious straight line. Elaborate creative works that take hours to construct typically don't get much response unless somebody can bend the thread into nondirected chatter about something else, because otherwise there isn't that much to say about them even if the reader likes them. Posts designed specifically as participatory humor, to incite followups, often work but not always.
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Date: 2004-01-09 05:36 am (UTC)Oh. Right. Music.
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Date: 2004-01-09 07:44 am (UTC)But the way people talk is fascinating. George Carlin built half his career on it.
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Date: 2004-01-11 07:38 pm (UTC)-- Schwa ---
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Date: 2004-01-09 10:36 pm (UTC)I've never understood why some posts on alt.religion.kibology get a lot of responses and others don't, either. Oh well.
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Date: 2004-01-09 11:20 pm (UTC)