Are you getting more serious with myLot?

First rule ; i used to make discussions on milestones way back and they were never considered deleted. until after a couple of months later. i don't know maybe they should clarify that. second rule; it's actually optional for me to respond to discussion if i open it on email, because i would always consider reading other response first so that i wouldn't immitate on others.

My seriousness about Mylot comes and goes in spurts depending on how close I am to payout and how much I need to make it that month to get a little closer to getting out of debt. Also, how serious I am here depends on if I have a deadline for a real job or contest. Then, myLot takes a backseat.

i am glad you went over again the rules and guidelines. you really did a serious work here. you reminded me of some basic rules here that may require a little rethinking. anyway, mylot is evolving. that's one thing i can say. and that's what i like here in mylot. there are rules that will inform us of the dos and donts. there are guidelines that will provide us parameters of what is allowed and not. by revisiting the rules and guidelines, i could change my ways to be able to suit mylot rules and guidelines. this is OK with me. thanks again.

Hi Neil, Well you are right, I think Mylot should explain the rules plainley because that is very confusing, but I'll remember to to tell anyone of any milestone that I've reached or any thing else and also about my ratings, which I have learned reacently, thanks for reminding us, but its still confusing about the discussions. Hugs. Tamara

Hello Neil. Nice to see someone reading the guidelines properly. I think one reason they don't want you opening a discussion like 'I've reached 2500 posts' or whatever, is because everyone can see that from the number in brackets. And think of the numbers. Mylot has roughly 179,000 members. If even 10% of them posted 'milestone' discussions, think of how it would clog up the system. In addition, the emphasis is on quality discussions. As all a milestone discussion will achieve is responses like 'Congratulations,' 'Do you earn more money now,' and 'Hope I get to that number,' there's no real potential for expanding the discussion. Also such discussions will probably be limited to the poster's friends, so there's limited potential for both responders and responses. On the question of reading responses first, it's a good idea to read some if not all to avoid repetition. However, as you say, if you get an email link, you're taken straight to the response box. I find the email links are very slow to connect anyway, so I'm more inclined to go to the friend's profile and join the discussion from there. This can be a useful exercise, as you can often find discussions your friend has responded to which you may have missed. I've seen quite a few of your posts now, and you seem to have interpreted the guidelines very well, but I'm sure this topic will help many other members. Thank you.

i think to some extent i am getting serious with mylot and that may be due to the fact that i am approaching payout time of 10$, i am also getting serious with mylot because i dont want mylot to cancel my account because of some rules which have just been introduced

I think its all one big experiment anyway, data IS money these days and many corporations will pay BIG money for it, thats why I think with the scope of how public our content really is in here we should get paid more for it, but I just think it reminds me so much (mylot does) of the old chat forums i stick around. I figure if they dont get my info here they'll get it through my text messaging-- recently my cellphone has been getting telemarketing calls and before this year I had absolutely none so someone has gotten my name, that part sux.

Hi neildc, got to say that the box thing gets me every time. Once you submit it you find that there have been lots of other responses already posted which might have said the same thing as you've not had the chance to read them. I did that yesterday then noticed someone above me had put practially the same thing which must have made it a bit of a boring chore for the topic originator to have to respond back to me as well. Interestingly the friend who got there first got best response and I got to look like I'd copied him.