Questions about MyLot

Hello HappyLady, "Why did my total $ go down overnight?" Because mine increased. I do not know exactly how the new earning system works and we are not supposed to talk about the earning algorithm. In the past the balance was updated only once a day, and there were adjustments times to times. Now that the balance is often updated, there are more adjustments. You are not paid if a discussion is deleted for a violation of the guidelines. So, if you respond to a discussion violating the guidelines, your balance will increase after a hour or two and will decrease later when the discussion will be deleted. It can also increase : by example, if you write a discussion and have no response to it, you are not paid for it. But if somebody respond several days later, you will see your balance increasing. "Next, I want to know if there is a limit to the number of posts per day. I cannot see anything about that and how about the length of what you write?" If you cannot see anything, it is because there is no limit. Two days ago a new member started 28 discussions... all plagiarized. "Is a sentence to start a discussion OK?" There is no minimum size to start a discussion (well, if it is empty or only emoticons, it will be deleted), but you should not forget that you will be paid only for quality discussions, and that a discussion with only one sentence will perhaps not be a quality discussion. "How do people best use this site?" I cannot respond to this one. For me myLot is a kind of club where I can discuss about quite anything and have fun with other members while earning a little money.

Hi and welcome back! 1. Earnings will sometimes fluctuate, this has always been the case, but with the updates occurring hourly rather than daily now, expect to notice it more. 2. There is no limit to the number of quality posts you can make per day. the more the merrier! 3. It is a very rare discussion that can stand as a single sentence. They happen and I have allowed them in the past, but it is very rare. 4. Regarding your problem, is this a problem occurring with certain posts or posts from certain people? Or is it every post? Can you post a screen shot of what you are seeing when this problem occurs?

Welcome to MyLot, Jackie! It seems that most of your questions have already been answered. It would, indeed, be wise to regard the Earnings figure as an 'estimate' at the moment. Although they recently announced that they were going to 'double the earnings' (though that didn't seem to affect earnings from previous days), they could, just as easily, reduce them. At the moment, and certainly for the next month or so, they are testing the algorithm and it mustn't, of course, tell them to them pay out more than the company is bringing in in revenue. There is no limit to the number of posts you can make here a day (and nor is there any set limit on how long or how short a post may be, within the constraints given in the Guidelines). Earnings here are 'activity driven' rather than 'post driven', so its not as important to post discussions as it is to post articles in the other place.