mylot earnings.

July 29, 2011 5:37am CST
can someone help me out? i don't quite understand something.. my mylot earnings are like, going down lol. by themselves. one of my posts was deleted yesterday and my earnings went down, which was fine. when i logged on this morning, i checked my earnings, and i had a certain amount, and just there now when i checked it again, it had dropped by 0.03 ?? can anyone explain this??
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
29 Jul 11
You have probably had more posts deleted than you noticed. Occasionally the notifications don't get sent, so you may not have been advised if, for example, a discussion was deleted to which you responded. Earnings are recalculated from time to time, especially towards the end of the month. You should take note of what it says at the bottom of the Earnings page: "All amounts are estimates and are subject to change until final payments are made."
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29 Jul 11
there are no more of my posts deleted, i just chedked them all, but i get what you are saying, about other peoples posts being deleted and i've commented on them? thats great thank you very much.. thats been very helpful. i did read that lol about all amounts are subject to change etc, but its been that amount for over 24 hours so i was just shocked that it had changed. but thank you!
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
29 Jul 11
As I say, they very often run the updates towards the end of the month, so that the figures are as correct as possible for the last day. It could be merely that the latest figures for the total amount available to be paid out have changed (in which case, everybody would be likely to see a change). I no longer look at my detailed figures every day but, when I did, I noticed that individual days could show a rise or a fall from time to time, especially in the last few days of a month. There are many things which could affect this, not just posts being deleted.
1 Aug 11
aww thanks very much thats a great help. just wanted to make sure i wasn't doing something wrong, or worse, going slightly mad and losing my ability to read lol! :)
@Orson_Kart (6118)
• United Kingdom
29 Jul 11
It's not like in the good old days of collecting bazooka joe wrappers or my dad's embassy coupons. I used to count them religiously day and night and woe betide anyone if a single wrapper went missing. One time I saved for three years to send off for a tin to keep my wrappers in. I wonder what happened to it? hmmmm
• United Kingdom
1 Aug 11
Well you had been given the answer by that wise old sage Owlwings above, so I thought I would give a an alternative slant on it. :P
1 Aug 11
lol.. i have no idea what you're talking about.. so.. "i smile because i have no idea what's going on.." :)
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2 Aug 11
lol.. i've no idea what a bazooka joe or an embassy is lol!
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
29 Jul 11
hi chicksdigscars You probably did respond to some iffy discussions like we all do at times and overnight the discussions were deleted thus your earnings will see a decrease too as your responses were on the deleted discussions. so learn the rules so you can see which discussions may be deleted and not respond to them thus saving your money. I have had to buy pass some that were openly breaking a rule of polling.so read the rules of discussion both to save your own discussions and to prevent you from responding to discussions that are breaking some mylot rule or rules.More you know about mylot the easy it will be to have fun here and earn too.
1 Aug 11
aww thanks very much. i'm going to have a read over the rules and FAQ's etc later today and then hgopefully i'll be able to avoid wasting time and energy on something thats going to be deleted haha! :)
@topffer (42156)
• France
29 Jul 11
You will find the answer in the FAQ : http://www.mylot.com/o/faq/faq6.aspx#17 It is due to adjustments made by myLot, and from my own experience, it fluctuates in a range -$0.05 to +$0.05. I don't know if a deleted discussion can cause a negative adjustment -- I cross my fingers : I never had one until now --. I noticed that participating to a deleted discussion does not seem to be taken in consideration in these adjustments -- indeed, your earnings for this discussion are removed from your balance --.
29 Jul 11
thank you very much thats very helpful! i'm just assuming that whether its my discussion, or someone elses that i comment to gets deleted, it alters my earnings.. if i think like that i can't go far wrong :)
• Philippines
2 Aug 11
It happened to me also especially when my earnings were all gone on some certain months. Maybe it's just change every month. What i really mean is your earnings are being renewed every month. I really don't know, i also wanna know.
3 Aug 11
it's inactivity that makes your earnings disappear completely, and when your earnings drop by a small amount, its because your discussions, or discussions you commented on have been deleted.
• United States
29 Jul 11
I know I just got 2 posts deleted this morning. They said it was because they were game or poll like questions. I don't see why because I had stories and then asked questions. Now I am worried every time I start a post my lot will delete it because anything technically could be a poll if you ask someone what they think! The one I'm upset on was the reincarnation and animal one. I thought that was a very interesting question to pose! Maybe I should word my titles better and never include certain words. Think that would help?
1 Aug 11
yeah mine got deleted too, i had a topic of dicussion that was like christan bale in terminator, or christan bale in batman, and how i couldn't decide because terminator and batman are like my fav films... and hes my fav man and he was in both.. and what did anyone else prefer, and they deleted that. and my coffee, instant or brewed was deleted lol.. but if i was to say, does anyone have weekend plans, thats apparently fine? i don't understand lol! i think if you give options, thats the problem.. you know like, pink or blue.. it's like a poll, because you can poll how many blues vs how many pinks etc,, if you get me?