Do we get paid for comments?
By jazzsue58
@jazzsue58 (2666)
March 13, 2009 5:43am CST
I'm still trying to work this out. I often reply to discussions by commenting direct to one of the replies. Quite often I get a reply back etc etc. I'm talking paragraphs here, not one line answers like "good point" or "thanks for answering."
Do these extra posts attract any earnings? The FAQ suggest they do, but I've noticed that when I post a comment rather than a reply that is numbered, my number of posts remain the same. Does this mean the person who posted the original reply gets a bit extra but not me - does my comment go unnoticed by MyLot?
This seems a bit unfair to me - and it's nothing to do with earnings. If my comments help increase another poster's earning potential, then I'm just happy to have obliged (although anything extra in my direction is always nice!)
We have to get a minimum of 500 posts before we can start pasting links etc, right? But a direct comment to another person's answer is as legitimate a post as posting a reply to the original discussion, if it adds something relevant. Often, the leading question invites an 'open forum' on that topic, "Have you ever done this - please give examples" kind of thing, which can lead to replies going off in all sorts of unexpected directions.
I know damn well a lot of my posts have been in comments format, and that my actual 'work yield' here has been far higher than the "official" number of posts I've accrued so far. It seems unfair that all this extra work is going totally unrecognised by MyLot, especially given the number of hours I've spent on it (I type slow. Minutes per word kind of thing)
Over to you for comments please, MyLotters.
5 responses
@smacksman (6053)
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13 Mar 09
The way I read your question is do we get paid for adding a comment to someone elses comment in a discussion.
Good point. I don't think so is my feeling. I think you only get credit for an original reply to a discussion or as you say 'a reply that is numbered'
But hey - this is the whole thing about Mylot; are you in it just for the bucks or are you here for a discussion, education, help, advice or just a good yarn.
My feeling is reinforced when you see a thread where there is a lot of banter between friends ie. one reply will get a dozen 'un-numbered' posts below it, mostly short and punchy comments of a few words. There is no attempt there to earn from the posts. They are using Mylot to chat and enjoy themselves.
@smacksman (6053)
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13 Mar 09
I take you point jazz and I must say that I agree with you - you deserve credit for good contributions wherever they appear.
I will support your crusade! Go, jazz, go!!
@jazzsue58 (2666)
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13 Mar 09
I've just posted elsewhere on much the same thing. Like I say, it isn't so much the earnings - I'd be a poor woman if I came here for that! - but the fact that I rarely post a comment with less structure and content than one of my regular numbered postings. It just seems unfair that the 10 minutes I spent on the other discussion, explaining what you've just said in a rather more long-winded way with a hypothetical 'real life' situation, does not earn me another 'brownie point' towards my coveted 500 posts.
It can make a person look lazy - like, they don't post much. When in fact they do.
@mysdianait (66009)
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13 Mar 09
Hey folks I must barge in!
I sometimes spend an entire days only commenting and I can sssure you that the next day I have earnt, and very well too! It depends on the quality of the comments obviously. Comments do not cause an increase in number but they are definately, absolutely counting towards earnings 
@takezoanzhari (123)
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13 Mar 09
I think comment add up your earning. Several days ago I go online to mylot and commented on some response in my disscussion, then I logged out and not logged in until yesterday. And when I check my earning yesterday, it add a few cent.
@smacksman (6053)
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13 Mar 09
I agree takezoanzhari, but that was your discussion in the first place so you would get credit for the member's reply.
Do you think I will get financial credit for my post here?
Even if it was a thousand words long I don't think so.
But I would love to be prooved wrong! haha
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@Darkwing (21583)
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17 Mar 09
Smacks... you will be paid for this response... just the one in another's comment... plus one response in your own box, i.e. two points per discussion if you make your responses that way. However, you do get participation earnings also, which boost your running payment.
I will be paid for this one and my own, but Jazz will get paid only for the responses she draws from other members. Phew! That's so difficult to explain... hope you're with me! lol.
Brightest Blessings.
@Darkwing (21583)
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17 Mar 09
When you post a discussion, you get a point for the first response. After that, you I think, about a cent per response. When you reply to those responses, you don't get paid, but you do get paid for participation. However, it's in your best interests to reply to responses, because when they keep coming back and keeping the thread going, I believe you're earning all the time.. not at one cent always you'll understand, but something.
If you respond to somebody else's discussion, in your own box, you receive one point, which I think also stands to earn you one cent, and that's the only response you'll get paid for on that discussion, with the exception of ONE further response, attached to somebody else's response. Complicated, the way I explain things, but that's the way I've seen it working over the past three years. I hope it helps.
Brightest Blessings my friend.
@jazzsue58 (2666)
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17 Mar 09
Thanks to all who responded to this - I'm kinda getting the hang of it all now. I'll go on as I have been since I started - posting a discussion when I feel I've something worth saying (even if no omne else thinks so, and it earns 0 replies!) and commenting/replying to as many MyLotters as I can. As for earnings - well, they happen, they happen, is my motto.
Next question: why does my gif file keep turning back into a peg when I save it?! (Um, I think I can answer that one myself - it's because I should never have taken the job on in the first place, lol)
@littleowl (7157)
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14 Mar 09
Thats good to know p1ke, until reading about the 'thank you' part I didn't realise it did affect our responses in our own discussions..hugs LoLo
