is the number beside your name increasing?

hi sjvg1976, you are right, i shouldn't have to worry about the rating number. thank you for your advice that i can get +2 straight away after responding and comment on others' discussions.

it's alright, aireanna18. let's strive together towards the 500 rating number goal. i think you may be faster than me to achieve it because i'm well known of being a snail aka tortoise in mylot in terms of rating number. LOL!

You know, I could be mistaken, but today after this enlightening discussion I have been kind of trying to monitor my activity rating to see my new found knowledge in action. Well, I am noticing that when it is not my discussion I do not always get +2. I'm not sure why. It could be that sometimes my comments to others posts are too short or something because sometimes I may just follow up with a brief question about the previous post. Like victorywp, I would like to eventually reach that 500 activity rating, but seeing that I barely made it 500 it is probably going to take me awhile to get there. LOL! Well, I will have fun striving for that goal.

good for you, mikyung. it's good to hear that your number is increasing side by side with your effort. i may not be as active as you but i will still try my best.

thanks for the encouragement, aireanna18. your idea regarding the short term goal is good. i will try it to encourage myself.

Your welcome! I know how it is when we have a big goal that we feel like it is going to take us forever to reach it is easy to feel like we will never reach it. Small terms goals help us to feel successful on a regular basis. I know the only way I stayed focused through a 2 year master's degree program was to count down the number of classes that were remaining. With 6 week classes that went by quickly, it helped. I could even count down the weeks especially if I had a particularly challenging class.

hi aireanna18, yes i did turn on my mylot notifications for discussions started by friends. there are lots of nice discussions for me to join in but i don't know why i failed to join in in the end. and all those notifications are still queueing in my email. i think maybe i afraid that i could not give a good response to the discussion starter so i give up responding. maybe i shouldn't have think too much and just respond to it. you know, sometimes i worried that what i said not only may not benefit others, but also may hurt them, so in the end will affect my reputation number as well. think too much right?

victorywp, one more suggestion that I just thought of for you is that you may want to consider turning on your myLot notifications for discussions started by friends. Many times that is a good way to hear about discussions that your friends have started that you can respond that will help you to increase your myLot activity rating. Best of luck to you!

victorywp, I think you are just overthinking it. I think you just need to adopt Nike's philosophy, "Just do it." I know what you are saying, and in person I am very much that way. I am shy. I sometimes worry about what people will think of me. I can be awkward not knowing exactly how to say something to a person I do not know. Many times we spend so much time overthinking things. We spend so much time overthinking and analyzing every little action rather than just taking action. Here is the thing, obviously you have a great reputation for a reason people like what you post. That is not going to change regardless of whether you post on your own discussion or someone else's discussion. You can do it!

hi jaiho2009, why do you think that you are way too far? over 15k within four years is far too great for me!

jaiho, see with your great success in 4 years you could give us all tips.

hi mariaperalta, yeah i see a number of mylotters prefer to respond rather than starting own discussions. in this way, their number can increase very fast. but for me, i think i responded to my own discussions more than responding to others' discussions in the past four years.

I think we all have our own style. I enjoy doing both posting to others discussions, and starting my own discussion question.

hi mrshubert13, i think our rating number does not directly affect our earnings. for example, we may be actively starting our own discussions and busy responding to all our respondents. so maybe we already replied to thousands of respondents in maybe 50 discussions. so we only get the rating number of 50 instead of thousands. but at the end of the month, we still get our pay because the earnings are based on our participation, not the rating number beside our name.

oh, i like that one... BEST RESPONSE... it has been a while since the last time i got it... but you just got it like... a minute ago? CONGRATULATIONS!

The way the reputation rating works is based upon the quality of your posts. You post quality responses. Other member can rate your responses on myLot. In order for you to get your reputation star, you must have a myLot activity rating of 100. Then, you can begin rating posts and participating in the reputation rating. Another thing that helps is when people rate your response as the best response on the discussion.

I did not remember if it was 30 days or 90 days, and I was too lazy to look it up. I think you probably are enjoying the site more these days as well because that seems to be when I earn the most on the site.

hi GardenGerty, thank you for the clear explanation. i got your points easily. yeah, actually i responded more to my own discussions so it does not increase my rating number. and yes, i know this, i have been logging into my accoumt once a while maybe around one to two months once just to keep my account active. it's 90 days.

GardenGertie, yes you lose all your earnings if you are gone for too long. I had that happen to me I had been away for a couple of years. The odd part is that in the couple of weeks that I have been back I have earned more than I had previously ever earned prior to my absence. It is like since I've been back I have figured out how the site work. I know I have benefited a lot from participating in discussions under the myLot interest that have taught me how to best utilize the site.

Confusion was, he used the word 'rating'. Thank you

If we all go and read this page: http://www.mylot.com/o/faq/faq11.aspx then we all use the words that myLot use, there will be no more confusions. The number in brackets alongside our username is: user activity rating. The star is our user reputation.

I should also have added that the number in brackets (our user activity rating) is NOT a post count as it does NOT include all of our activity here and that our reputation is decided by others when they rate us.

hi hatley, yeah your 54,394 rating number is amazing! i didn't really check but i think you are really the highest here among all 246,927 people here. earlier i thought GardenGerty is the highest among those i know, until you reminded me. wow, this is awesome, i wonder how do you manage it?

hi aireanna18, thank you for informing me about this. i went to search for that discussion and responded under mysdianait. but if not mistaken, i did not see your reply there? now i don't know whether my discussion or her discussion will be deleted, or maybe both of our discussions will be deleted? hi JohnRok1, i personally think that what you have suggested is really a good idea. however, i felt that it would be extremely difficult for mylot to implement it. something great will only happen after somebody start to dream about it.

JohnRok, you make good suggestion; however, I believe the guidelines state that you are supposed to do a searc to see if there is something similar before posting a new discussion. I think that is the reason why myLot sometimes just deletes them because they see it as a violation of the guidelines. I am not sure whether it would be feasible to merge to discussions together like that part of me thinks it could make the discussion more confussing in the long run. It would also depende upon the platform and technology of the site whether something like this is even possible.

I think it's pretty difficult to detect without fail whether a discussion similar to the one you already started exists on mylot. This being the case, I think it would be good if, instead of simply deleting a discussion on the grounds that a similar discussion already exists, my lot could downgrade the scoring of the new discussion to that of a response or comment, or even move the whole discussion across to the previous discussion, changing the initial post to a response and the other responses to responses to the original discussion. Posts thus rendered "plagiarist" could then be deleted without deleting those which aren't. I'm day-dreaming, of course.

yes, you are right, aireanna18. we need a plan, an idea, a strategy, and a goal!

hi Cutie18f, yeah i also try to participate in mylot if i have time. but the problem is i always respond to my own discussions more than to others' discussions. and yes, i received the earnings for all my participation but my rating number will not increase.

Well, as soon as people respond to a discussion that you post you do get a plus 1 for your rating. I know when you are posting discussions it feels more like your activity rating is not increasing because it does not go up until someone comments to your discussion. Still if you started 5 discussions a day that all get responses from myLot users you could increase your myLot activity by 5 points a day. Then, you could reach your goal of 500 in a couple of weeks. I was reading a discussion by another member earlier today that reminded me that if you want to be successful you need to have a plan. I would make using the knowledge that you gained from this discussion to create a plan of how you will reach your goal of 500. Best of luck to you!

hi JohnRok1, the reputation number also fluctuates from time to time. maybe you will get a better reputation number later, who knows right? all the best to you and have a wonderful day.

yeah, aireanna18 is the correct person to talk about this. she can testify and help you as how she helped herself to increase from a reputation of 3 to 8. that's her real life experience which is worth millions of dollars!

JohnRok, it takes time to get a good reputation on myLot. I've been on the site for like 3 years now; although, I have not been active for that whole time. Just keep making quality posts, and slowly your reputation rating will increase too. It is just a matter of patience.

hi hereandthere, yeah you are right. that is what i have been doing in the previous years. i get my earnings responding to all the respondents in all my discussions, but my rating number will not increase. if you read my respond above you, maybe you will understand why i don't have much time to respond to others' discussions in order to increase my rating number. i just spent too much time responding to my own discussions.

Well, victorywp, I understand what you are saying here. I've been in some great discussions lately where I have responded back and forth with others and commented on multiple pages, so I know what you are saying it takes a lot of time. Then again I only tend to start like 1 discussion at a time, and so far my discussions get less than 10 responses. It gives me time to find other discussions to respond to as well; then I tend to let the discussion that I had going fizzle out before I start another. I do not know if this strategy will help you, but I just thought I would share it with you.

all mylotters become inactive from time to time. what's great about mylot is your discussions, as long as within guidelines, are still in your started tab so you can come back to answer the responses when you're available, even if it's days, weeks or months later. numbers-wise, the only thing left to aim for is 500 so you can copy-paste, which is very helpful so you don't have to retype something.

Oh, i notice the matter regarding copy and paste function too! Previously when i just started myLotting, i tend to write on microsoft word before posting on myLot as i was afraid the page will auto sign-out after some time if i have not finish my posting. Hence, to avoid wasting my effort, i wrote it on microsoft word, and intend to copy and paste to myLot as my reply. However, i get a pop out box stating, "In order to help prevent spam, only users with a rating greater than 500 are allowed to paste. If your rating is greater than 500 and you still cannot paste logout and sign back in." Hehe.. it always reminds me that i have not yet reached 500 rating. =) I still have a long long way to go. How i wish to reach to at least level of 100 rating to enjoy writing like the rest of the myLot members. It makes the post more lively and fun with all the "emoticons" around. Isn't it so? =)

Unforgetable, thank you for that informative post. I knew about the 500 for copying and posting. Sishy had recently shared with me about the myLot code as I was just using text characters to make happy faces in my posts. Someone had posted that there is another reward for the 1,000 achievement do you know what that is by any chance?

Cool, Unforgettable_Raja! Yeap, your response is really helpful to me. Thanks a million. Actually kind of disappointed, i thought i will be able to use smileys after obtaining 100 rating. I was informed by a friend of mine, seems like it is not true. =( Anyway, still is fine...i will reach to the rating required slowly. =) Good to have your kind sharing. Have a nice day. Wow, another reward achievement for 1,000 rating?? What would that be?

Hello my friend victorywp Ji, Well, I think I have to understand, why your STAR rating is 10 with less than 500 posts and why I am still struggling with '9' being colour red, having more than 3500 posts. I thnk myLot only can explain. But I have seen members with more 10000 posts having '5' etc. May God bless You and have a great time

hi maygodblessu44, i think you have misunderstand my question. i'm asking about the rating number inside the bracket, not the reputation number inside the star. sorry for the confusion but i appreciate your response very much.

thanks, surekharathi, for your explanation. i think i started to understand much more by now after accumulating all the responses here including yours now.

hi Angelpink, congratulations to you! you already achieved 562 rating number in your 2+months in mylot! well, i should be more ashamed of myself now. hi aireanna18, thank you for explaining again to our new friend, Angelpink. this is the reason why we all (including Angelpink) feel grateful with the people here (including you, aireanna18).

Angelpink, this is my understanding: 1. For discussions posted by other myLot members, I can comment on them. When I post the first time my myLot activity the number in the brackets increases by 1. So, if my rating was say 30 when I entered the discussion; then I post now it will be (31). Now, if I choose to post a 2nd response to that same discussion thread, my activity rating will increase again, so now it would say (32) *using the previous example. Now, I can continue to post responses to the discussion thread, which does increase my myLot participation this may increase myLot earnings; however, I will not see my activity rating increase anymore from posting to this discussion because I already hit the maximum of +2 increase for my activity rating from this discussion. 2. For discussions I start. When I post the discussion question, I will not see my activity rating increase. So, if it was at (32) before posting the discussion question, it will still say (32) after I post the question. Later someone posts to my discussion question that I posted then I will see my activity rating increase by 1, so now it says (33). I respond back to those who posted to my discussion question because it is polite and respectful. It will help my participation and myLot earnings; however, I will not see my activity rating increase because I already reached the maximum of +1 for a discussion that I started. myD, Unforgetable, and GardenGertie feel free to chime in hear if I have incorrectly interpretted. I think the 3 of you are the experts here!

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hi kokomo, actually i don't mean the reputation number in the star. i mean the rating number in the bracket. sorry for the confusion. anyway, i think the reputation number is affected by how other mylot members rate your responses and comments. that's the reason quality responses and comments are always needed for us to get a higher reputation.

hi allenwrites, you must be a great observer as you have already observed so much when you are just a new member of less than three days? superb! wow, what a nice nickname to call you... Lambie? great, thanks for the information.

Yeah, Lambie, you're a brave man, changing your username so often when it takes so long and so much effort to get up to where you can paste.

Even better still go and read here: http://www.mylot.com/o/faq/faq11.aspx

Why is _Raja able to use 4 emoticons? Is there any other things I should know about emoticons? Please share it then as I know it was just three. I saw some veterans though that uses more. Just wondering how is it achieved.

Oh my, I tried using 4 emoticons, it worked. Does making the letters bold excluded on this?