What is it with these interest rankings and levels?

Hi akuler, as I said today is the first time I've noticed them and don't really see the point at all either except that I might make one later just for a bit of amusement. Now I have just been informed by the expert of the house, a die hard fan, a follower, that you are emphatically WRONG. They wear green and white. The ones whose name dared not be mentioned locally you are correct with though, they wear red. But PANI wear white and green. Which just shows I deserve my ranking as number one in that area even though I know nothing about football. Just off to do a quick exeperiment, please answer back when you have checked the interest ranking of yourself in this subject.

Sorry you can't win on this one akuler, after all you are aruging with the foremost mylot ranked number one on our national football team. Now I don't care what some internet encyclopedia chooses to print erroneously but they wear GREEN. I've even seen them myselves on the taverna screen wearing GREEN. You are wrong here, my ten year old even confirmed it for you early. Now where's our Romanian expert when we need him? OK I may have not rated your first football reply so check it tomorrow and you should be number two even though you declined the interest. Just as well I hasten to add when you don't even know they wear GREEN.

D*mn!! I did it again. I refer to this, our national team wears green. Your national team wear all white for home games and all blue for away games. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece_national_football_team You might not rate it yet because I can see it in my profile about my rank in that interest. I say "no, thank you" after reply to your discussion

By looking at the interest rankings, another user can see what we are interested in. Iappear to be very interested in making money... and bananas

Come on Alice, I'm going to make a new one and need suggestions. Something which will say it's from me when I post.

Have to disagree there mys, how can an interest ranking tell more about oneself than the profile page, not that either really tell anything one hopes. But not only have i been highly ranked in Sandra's absolutely not of my interest interest but I'm also very high up in liking dogs and killing bugs, whereas in reality I am terrified of dogs and much prefer others to kill my bugs for me. I don't even know what made me notice them today as they appear to me to be a total irrelevance but i'm still curious if others do try to hit an interest and rise through its ranks.

There are still some things about myLot that are a complete blur for everybody, and the administrators don't seem to care about it, so I thinks we shouldn't bother about it, as it's obvious we won't be getting any response... It's just like the earning algorithm - a total secret.

Hi stvasile there has been much debating on this on the first page of the discussion and I also assumed, as you have just done, that a + rating ranked one in the interest leaderboard, only to discover today it is not necessary. Yesterday I had a half line intruder with a post count of one enter my discussion and I did not rate him as he did not make a positive contribution, yet today he had a higher ranking than others who were + rated and responded before him and at greater length so I'm now no wiser. Obviously to respond at all ranks you somewhere but higher than people who've been rated positive, there appears to be no logical reason behind it all. I understand you were duped into this interest but it pelleases you really. I've noticed today that I'm ranked 7 out of more than 35,000 in life with absolutely no idea how that came about, unless it is level 7, I will look at it sometime.

That's a first Hatley, bad people I like. Well if you responded to someone in there even if you chose no I most emphatically do not want to be part of this interest you now are and stuck with it to. It won't show under your actual interests but there's a rather silly section which shows your 'ranking in an interest' and for all you know you could be highly ranked there as a valued member of the 'bad people I like' ranked interests. Always try to keep out of politics and religion myself for the same reason Hatley. Answered a friends dicsussion yesterday which he'd place in religion and I didn't realise till I answered it. Next thing I know is someone came along trying to convert me

I JUST MEANT ON MY INTEREST PAGE DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT RANKINGS ETC. I don't venture out much on mylot or the computer period. When i went to put the pie where i keep things i saw an ant so i opened the box & there were more. I had read a discussion here while back where a lady found ants in something she had bought at the store. Can't remember who wrote it now. Have a good night,Thea.

You too Aunty

Aunty you can't delete them. You can delete an interest as a topic but you can't delete it from your rankngs in that interest, even if the interest is no longer there. But there again who cares, there's nothing we can do. Still can't get over you nearly eating those ants.

Hi Kitty, I'd give it a miss unless you're feeling bored, the answer appears to be that we end up in an interest we have no interest whatsoever in just because we respond to someone who chooses to put their interest there. And there's nothing to be done about it. I tend to stick most of my discussions under life as a rule, as they are all about such happening things.

Kitty my dear you must never ever lose a wink of sleep over irrelevancies

Hello my friend I checked it out, now I see why it kept slipping my mind lol , don't really understand it but thats fine with me, I will not lose a wink of sleep lol

I think BR counts in your ranking in an interest. It may also just be how many posts in that interest, or even how many words used by you in that interest. I find that when I receive BR my earnings go up a cent. I think when I reward BR my earnings go up a cent the next day as well, but not sure on that one.

I think awarding them pays you rather than receiving them, it just seems more logicial as you are showing your nice side by being all sweet and generous, naturally I always give them out myself.

Hi Gerty this is becoming a bit of fun as apparently what these rankings do is actually show our interests, in things we may not actually be the slightest bit interested in, and what's more we can't distance ourselves from this topics of interest even if we choose to. So we end up with far more interests in our rankings than interests we have chosen. Something of no consequence at all to mull over.

I Do Agree Thea .. Make Merry While It Rains Gold .. I Thoroughly Enjoy Your Posts .. They Are Indeed Informative .. One thing I Like About You Is You Make It A Point to Respond To All Your Responses .. Way to go Dear .. Wish You Heaps Of Profit(Big Bucks) ..

You just always say the sweetest things Prash, keep it up now

Yes Prash, but if we didn't keep banging these questions out as a bit of frivoility how are you going to keep your cash register ringing. You have fun by answering and you make money by doing so, there's no need at all to go into the details of it all, but if it rasies a little frivolity along the way, plus explains why I am now ranked high in the subject of dogs, which I have no interest in beyond knowing that they bite and bark, then why not make a little discussion about it. The ranking means nothing as it appears to be upside down anyway. Now I really missed my point there as tried to enter my point with an innocent English expression which mylot didn't like, deja vu with spotted d*ck the other day.

Hi Peaceful, well we've just been discussing this above and even Mike has admitted I've discovered something he didn't know. If we press no thanks to adding an interest but respond to it then we still get a ranking in it even though it isn't added as an interest. I'm here creating this topic as really have no idea what it's all about either.

Well I've learned a lot just following your discussion and the responses, so thank you for that Karen

Hi taztheone, i think you're the first one to reply who actually bothers about your interest ranking, we've discovered it's possible to be very highly ranked in an interest if it is indeed an interest which has little interest to anyone else. Thus if you can find such an interest and contribute to it you will easily achieve a magnificently high ranking.

Hello again English Tea Duck, absoluetely nothing to be gained by all this interest ranking malarky so best advised to look at more useful things to find your way around on here. There are lots of friendly people on here as well as a few frutcakes who have crawled out of the biscuit tin but hopefully you'll soon be able to spot the difference.