What's an effective method for getting replies to your questions?

Hey guys so hopefully I get a response to this cause recently this has been bugging me a lot.
I've been making topics on here over a period of about a year or so and almost none of them i've been getting replies and I know most of these questions are problems that i Know professionals like yourselves can answer. So my question is what am I doing wrong? Is it that no one knows? Am I too vague or too specific? Is it cause I made it confusing? Let me know if you can. Thanks a lot!!
If you want a sample of what I mean, here's a couple links if you need one to give me a good answer:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2451877&tstart=0

In your sample post you write:
it says "Attempting to copy the disk "Ipod" failed. You do not have the privilages to make the chanages."
Then right behind it it says "The ipod cannot by synced. You do not have enough privilages for this opperation"
Now i've read up on this already on many sites...
Potential respondents are more likely to also read up on the problem if you quote the error messages accurately — then they can do a quick copy & paste into Google. But with "privileges" misspelt twice and "be", "changes" and "operation" all misspelt, potential respondents have to do a lot of editing before looking up those error messages. Note that in Compose mode you can click on this symbol to activate the spell checker:
You also write "Ipod/ipod" instead of "iPod". You may not think this makes much difference, but Apple apparently does as they consistently refer to their product as "iPod".
Midnight Pharaoh wrote:
...here's a couple links if you need one to give me a good answer:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2451877&tstart=0
So where's the +*other link*+ of the +"couple links"?!+
Your +Public Profile+ indicates you're using Mac OS X (10.6.2) — is that true? (The current version is 10.6.3.)
...Try taking time to present your question and error messages accurately and see if you receive more replies to your questions.

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