Rating positive and marking best response...

giving plus or best response will not give you extra cent and it is also not reducing your money. It is simply to conclude your discussion. When you create a discussion, you surely want to have answers to it. When other members already submit their answers, it is your turn to conclude it by choosing the best response, which response do you think is the best response to your discussion.

All that MyLot tell us is that we are 'paid for our participation' and that the discussion rating system is 'factored into the earnings algorithm'. They give no indication that giving someone a positive (or negative) rating or giving a BR has any effect on our own earnings but it's likely that it does affect the earnings of the person rated. The Guidelines tell us not to discuss the earnings algorithm so what I say above is based entirely on what is said about it in the FAQs and elsewhere. My advice is to forget about the money and to make a habit of rating good discussions and responses positively and also of making sure that your own discussions and responses are of outstanding quality so that others will rate them positively as well. The only time that your own rating behaviour might reflect on you is when the system is abused. MyLot have a procedure which checks for abuse (though, naturally, they don't give details) and you can be sure that if your rating behaviour is seen to be in any way 'artificial' your activity will be noted and action will be taken.