I Learned Why We Can't Share an Image With Our Website Name On It
@Cintronwriter (564)
United States
March 9, 2016 7:45pm CST
Greetings to you, like-minded writers and contributors near and far. Today is my first day on mylot.com, and already a post was flagged. Guess I should have read the community guidelines.
But something struck me as I read the community guidelines in response to my flagged post that included the text of a quote, an image with the text, my signature and website url.
Why flag my image for including my name and site on it? I'm not marketing myself, just sharing a picture quote. And than I realized, it's all about traffic which equates to money.
If this site allows me to share an image with my site url on it, and they like it, more than likely, people will leave this site for mine. That's bad business for mylot.com.
Think deeper. How many members contribute on this site in hopes of earning pennies a day? Thousands I'm certain. If Mylot.com allows contributors to share our sites, they lose money.
To make money on Mylot, we need to interact by pilfering through posts, hitting the like button and commenting, hoping to reach that $10 payout threshold, as quickly as we can, and as often as we can.
Mylot makes a hundred times what it pays out. They need you and me. Similar to the government, give a little, take a lot.
Just my two scents. I'm sure I'll ruffle some feathers with this post.
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@Mike197602 (15511)
• United Kingdom
10 Mar 16
I noticed you said this "To make money on Mylot, we need to interact by pilfering through posts, hitting the like button and commenting..."
That isn't how it works.
Earnings here are determined by how your posts are interacted with by other members.
You'd earn nothing for your above post until it is interacted with by other members...that's means by liking,responding/commenting.
So, basically, it's not what you write it's what others write back to you that will earn for you.
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@Cintronwriter (564)
• United States
10 Mar 16
Good to know @mike197602. I guess the point I was trying to express is the time invested here, if put into one's own site, could generate more than what is gained here. Thanks again.
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@Mike197602 (15511)
• United Kingdom
10 Mar 16
@Cintronwriter of course it would.
Earnings here for time spent are beyond negligible which is why I see them as a bonus as I'd be on here for free
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@JolietJake (50190)
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10 Mar 16
No, actually your post violated the guideline stating a discussion must not consist of only a quote.
There aren't 'thousands' of users here, there is easily less than 500.
myLot does not make 'a hundred times what it pays out'.
You evidently didn't pay much attention to what you read.
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@myLotBugs (211)
• Kansas City, Missouri
11 Mar 16
@owlwings @GoAskAlice @JolietJake Here you go....
(I'm a nerd and have fun pulling numbers out of the database sometimes.)
Anywhere from 240-280 unique, active (posting) members per day over the last month or so.
Roughly 700 unique, active (posting) members per month (not everybody is here every day).
These aren't huge numbers compared to other websites, but they're very healthy and comparable to myLot's peak pre-2013.
However, our "posts per user" is through the roof. We've always been much higher than most other websites, and are at about twice myLot's peak pre-2013. The newer versions of the website, despite any flaws, have definitely helped with this.
5401 comments yesterday, 3167 responses, 336 new discussions. This has been a typical day for awhile. You can do the math.
What we lack in user quantity, we certainly make up for in user quality. Hopefully the quantity continues to go up as well....
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@JolietJake (50190)
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11 Mar 16
@myLotBugs Yeah, I've kept an eye on discussion numbers over 24 hours off and on, and 336 is in the realm of what I have been seeing, I've been calling an average of 350 per 24 hours. Thanks for the other numbers, Owl and I had been curious.
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@Cintronwriter (564)
• United States
10 Mar 16
@jolietjake, thank you for clarifying my earlier question, as well as providing a bit of background information regarding some site metrics.
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@yukimori (10180)
• United States
10 Mar 16
If there's any doubt why a post was deleted, a message to @GoAskAlice can clear it up. He's the one who handles that sort of thing.
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@DWDavis (25809)
• United States
11 Mar 16
@Cintronwriter Most everyone here is friendly, helpful, and interesting to get to know. I think you will enjoy becoming part of the community.
@Cintronwriter (564)
• United States
11 Mar 16
@DwDavis, yes sir. The good people here set me straight. Lol.
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@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
10 Mar 16
The same thing or something similar happened to me when I first posted on MyLot. Someone accused me of plagiarism because I asked some trivia questions. I am a "trivia nut" and love to post trivia, and was used to doing so on another site (Bubblews) but this site is different. The rules are different. I think it's difficult to remember all the rules even after you've read them, but I understand most of them anyway and WHY they are in place.
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@Cintronwriter (564)
• United States
10 Mar 16
@IreneVincent, I was perturbed to say the least and so I wrote this. But as you said, rules are in place for reasons.
