Feel like I'm doing something wrong

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Latest two threads I've started (asking a question) have several views but no responses. Was told a while back if you asked a question to involve people, or sought people's input, there was more chance of a response.

It seems though that isn't necessarily true.

You weren't really clear in your previous thread. Are you talking about "seeing patterns?"

I was talking about nonverbal IQ questions. In the thread I posted before that I asked whether a significant VIQ-PIQ was more indicative of ASD or NVLD.

You're not doing anything wrong - it's perfectly acceptable to ask questions about autism on an autism forum!

As for the views without responses, people have to click to see what your question actually is - and then might feel they don't have a helpful answer to contribute. Also, I think there are search engine bots that add to the view count(?)

If your goal is to make conversation and get people involved, I think maybe those questions were too technical, and don't come across as 'conversation starters'. (Whereas 'Feel Like I'm Doing Something Wrong' is a topic that a lot of us can relate to, in our never-ending quest to decipher the mystery of how to interact with other human beings!)

Making conversation is really difficult.

At least for me, the reason I wouldn't post is that I don't have a helpful response. For technical/very specific questions a high degree of specialized knowledge is required for a response. We probably have that in the community somewhere, but it may not be common and those members may not have seen the post yet. It is also possible that you are the most knowledgeable on something and no one knows the answer! Anyway, I hope you aren't discouraged, though if you are I can understand why. Keep asking and you're likely to make a connection sooner or later, is what I believe.

I'd never be the most knowledgeable on anything. I'm not that intelligent. I just think I'm not good at posting . I think some of us have the knack and others don't.

You aren't doing anything wrong. Lots of topics get few or no replies. The number of replies depends on who visits the site, length of your post, clarity, relatability of the topic, and other factors.

You clearly were doing something wrong in one recent thread. But you went back and corrected the mistake.

That was that thread about "do you have trouble answering nonverbal questions".

No one could respond for the simple reason that no one could figure what you were talking about.
But you went back and explained it better, and then you DID get a good number of responses.

In that particular original post you didn't explain what you meant by "nonverbal questions", and didn't mention that you meant "questions on IQ tests".

The larger lesson?

Probably that you should get into the reader's head more before you post something- so you know what the reader wouldn't know (or other things like the reader seeing offputting jargon, etc).

But the few times I start threads I also more often than not get no response.

The most successful (if you define "success" as going on for a lot of pages) thread of mine in years was probably the one entitled "eight pages of this sewage". And that's just because a whole boat load of folks were angry about the same issue as I was.