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I am a newbie & trying to understand how to make money here. I thought I read somewhere that you can get paid $4 for 6 small paragraphs. I must be doing something wrong because I have only gotten 0.08 for 10 1-2 paragraph answers. Can someone clear this up? It is kind of discouraging. I have to admit I'm not as motivated to spend my time and writing ability here if this is all that I'll get for it. Also, how do I change my preferences to allow mature content? I don't see any prompts for this when I click on preferences. Very confusing for a 40 something computer user like me.