Changing the way we earn

I think that it would be good. i usually reply to ALL people only to find out that they didnt even came back to check my response =( However lately I have also been bad with feedback, just havent had the energy. I think that this would really make it more of a discussion site, now it is more of a forum or something like that!

Yup.. you are definitely on the right track. Good observation by the way. Well, i think that the only solution to marathon posters is that we act something about it, Like report them to mylot staff, etc. And about us getting "no" credit for our own discussions, I would 50/50 agree/disagree about it. I have difficulties in starting a discussion that is interesting and that many people can respond to.. That is why I would just stick to responding discussions rather than starting one. But the problem is that, if like so.. the mylot staff will agree to your proposal/suggestion.. Then we start a discussion, but i hope you can see that not all are interested in some discussions that we make or not interested at all.. If no one will reply, then we cant earn money since we cant make a response to the responses that we receive since we dont have any.. I hope you can get what im saying.. hehe.. But I am happy that you want to limit spamming here since theres really a lot of it here.. :) thanks and best of luck to you.

I don't respond to them, that's my own way of dealing with them. It's their loss, not mine. I always give my very best opinion and put every though on the post I make, that someitmes it is really hard for me to choose the proper word to use because I am not a good english speaker. I wouldn't care much if I lose 10 or 100 posts a day, just as long as I earn a cent, that's enough for me. To most of them whom didn't put any effort to comment on my responses, I say thank you to all!;)LoL

Well I think you make some very valid points here. This site is going downhill fast, and a radical shake-up is needed somewhere to get it back to the place it used to be, with intelligent discussions, not just people posting random referral links, and all these daft, one-line questions in place of proper topics. I'm not sure if myLot would listen to your please, as they don't seem to be as "hands-on" as they used to be - but good luck with trying!

Ya you are true most of the people don't comment when they post they'r discussios but i allways do, we must comment on the response we got, coz it effects status. I reccomend all my friends of mylot to comment on each response they get on there discussions.

It is good that you have shared your view. What I agree with you that our posting should be honest feed back what we feel. Ofcourrse we should not span, not critise anybody, not to violate the honoured forum rules. Thaks for asking genuine feed back! Hope you will st what you genuinely wish!

Hello Sunshinecup, Nice to visit with you again! I'm not sure how affecting it will be to present this suggestion to the MyLot staff, but you have my full support. Before I answer a question from an unfamiliar member, I always check to see if the actually engage their discussions, by replying to the responses. If they habitually do not, then I won't bother responding to their question. I don't have alot of time to dedicate to MyLot, but by golly, if I present a question, then I make sure to participate in that discussion, until it is closed. Sometimes even beyond the selection of a best response. To me, it is a sign of respect that we interact with our respondent's. We may not have the incling or time to expound on every response, but we should certainly make a commitment to at least recognize, and thank the respondent's. I concur wholeheartedly with you that MyLot should be supporting this respectful interaction. Instead, the MyLot guidelines suggest not thanking the respondent's. How absurd it that???. Anyway, sorry for rambling a bit. If you would like to use my username in a list of members who support your suggestion, you're welcomed to do so. I fully support your idea on this, because you're right ... it isn't a discussion if it's only one-sided. You go Sunshine!

I will come back to this original post and post again - that way it won't count as 2 posts as soon as you tell me how you make those cute hearts. ~Donna

true, many users post discussions and leave it just like that, they will not even give any feedback even thank you from their respondents. they will just post and post new discussions and wait for many feedbacks. too bad since they dont recognize the efforts of their friends responding to their discussions.

Here are my thoughts, sunshine: The people here on myLot that are serious do reply to most of their discussions. I know that I really try hard to. If the responses become redundant, however, I will sometimes just rate them and move on. I mean, we all know that some are just here to make a quick buck. I don't worry about them. I even had a response to one of my posts yesterday where this guy just asked me to try Firefox. That's no kind of response. I'm going to stop giving them a good rating when they do this.

First, I thought myLot frowned on replying to posters in a discussion UNLESS it was relevant or the poster asked a question. I guess I'm confused as to how this would work. I do know, I personally would rather not see a dozen "thanks for your post" or "your response is really appreciated". Some of these discussions get a lot of replies, and one might not have the time to reply to every single one of them especially if the subject has already been covered. Or what happens to the person who only has a limited amount of time each day and has to spend it replying to the discussion they posted yesterday - just to earn a few pennies? Me thinks you need to rethink this.

I dont think that fair, I will explain why. I posted a discussion and did not get a response for a week. I had to go out of town for three weeks and I got home and checked my email, there was over 36 responses. I replied to the discussion through my email and I pressed the submit button. I then put in a tag, and the screen showing a violation..... came up and the discussion was gone. I had not violated any guidelines, my discussion was about my garden. So why would it be fair to suggest this? Thanx,Totty

Wow...I think you are really on to something here...and I'd say..go for it! Your point about this being a discussion forum and how many people do not take the time or energy to respond to respondants befuddles me too. It is the first thing I do whenever I log on...for a couple of reasons. Number one I have regulars like you that always have something interesting to say...and I look forward to hearing what it is. Secondly when people value a discussion enough to drop by and participate it is beyond me why people do not rate it...and of course...reply. If you don't reply...how can there be a discussion? Some of the most enjoyable forums are the ones where people come back a couple more times and add things to my comments..or others within the thread. Maybe it is just the way our minds work sunshine...but your views echo my thoughts on this. I have wondered about why those who do take the time to reply don't have more incentives. From what you are proposing I do not see any cons...but then I run my site your way anyway...and will not change my strategy of a 'response for every response' approach. I'll be checking back to see how things progress with what I think is a brainstorm! Maybe you should see if you can get an on-line petition going where we could back you up and present it to Mylot with members views en masse. Anyway...good job..great concept...thanks for putting out there. I will continue to read comments and see where it goes.

hi sunshinecup..the post u've started is like 'exactly same here'..i mean i am sure many people must think that way..so u've collectively represented them..well thanks for this post as i found 1 more genuine post about mylot..i also think the same thing.i respond to discussions from my interests as much as i can in 1 hour(my own time limit for mylot;-)) only a few days back i came to know that just responding anywhere or posting a new new discussion is not going to pay u until u get at least 10 responses..i felt bad when i saw my earnings to be only 30 cents even after trying 2 hours a day on mylot for 5 days..frankly speaking everybody posts here mainly for money..people agree it to or not..and really mylot should change there standards about responding to discussions because even if u post a genuine one u won't get anything until people do not respond you..which i think is not fair..i saw many posts here like what do you like more a Nike or Adidas??,car or bike..i mean posts like this seem silly to me ..what i personally think is this site is about discussing yourself out in every way and not starting puzzles or quizzes or comparisons just to increase the number of responses..and so many people are posting here that it is naturally not possible to get every one of them responded.so mylot should have a careful look on this aspect..which is proving to be more of spamming thing than to be a acceptable by all..nice post ..thank you..i just got a sigh of relief after writing all this...so now i can that i don't feel lost here..thank you sunshinecup..

"We don’t get credit for our discussions AT ALL, unless we reply to those that make a response to it?" You wrote.. We don't get credit for making a post UNLESS someone replies to it.. ok let me see if I can explain this.. Say I am sitting at 290 and I make a post I am still at 290 if no one replies to it I don't get anything from it no money no point.. So this is already taken place.. I think the reason though why people make posts is to make conversation not really the money part because we really don't make anything from our own discussions being made we really only make it from replying to others.. This is what I am seeing so everything you suggested is already taking place.. It doesn't matter if a person makes 100 posts a day or 10 posts a day they aren't really getting paid for it only when they really reply to someone else If they do it's only for what they started as a conversation not really a reply that made from the people who replied to the subject... Reason why I know this is because I have done this I made a post had a lot of replies and hardly made anything my replies to the people that posted were more than 4 lines long... This doesn't include replying to others posts.. Understand what I am saying?

That makes a lot of sense. But do you get credit for each response to your response? And must you respond to each response? I do to most of mine but some there really isn't any retort. I do think it would cut down a lot of spammers and such.

yes some topics are such that can't be replied, for example "i got paid", we can't write anything oher than "wow, thats gr8"

Hi there, well all i can say is that, there's a lot of types of people in this world and so in here also in mylot. All of us have our own opinions, we can't make other people to say what we want to because they have their own opinions. We can't demand that this is what they have to do or say just because we want to. So, sometimes we can't really avoid these n*sty things going on here in mylot because of some cr*zy people you know.

I love to reply to those responses which interests me and i do not like to go back to those responses just saying something as they have to reponse certain number in one day. I als o do not reply or response any topic which seems uninterested to me. So this is not a hard and fast rule for me and I am doing ok with this, I only focus on my interest nothing else and i think i am doing ok for this reason, not too bad. I love towrite again over a respone on my post if i have something inside me for that whcih is trying to be realised thru my writing. Do you have this feelings? U know what i mean?

Well what can i say honey? If i do not get a reply from the psoter to my responses i will not respond to this particular poster again. Problem is tho, i cant remember them all. That is one reason i would so appreciate a block option on this site