My earnings went down but my number of posts are still the same?

@stephcjh (38473)
United States
February 13, 2007 11:44am CST
Hi. I have been sick over the last few days. I signed in today and my earnings went down overnight but my number of posts are still the same? I knowthere are alot of topics about loss of earnings but I really am confused on why the earnings went down but not my number of posts made. Can some one tell me why or tell me if you experienced this also? Thanks.
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26 responses
@mccullar (124)
• United States
14 Feb 07
i'm with you on that i just dont understand this whole thing! i know yesterday i was like at $.24 and i wrote on like 10 topics and i only got $.06 to make me at $.30 how do we know what we will get? is it like for every leter we type we get so much or is it for how long we type for? i really just dont get it. but maybe as far as you are conserned maybe they are going down on what they pay us? i really dont know sorry i was not any help!
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
14 Feb 07
Hi. No problem. I respect any and all responses I get. We will all just have to hope for the best here.
• United States
14 Feb 07
yikes that is not good. Do we get paid for the responses or the post. I of course do not have any earnings but would like to know how this works? Sorry you were sick.
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
14 Feb 07
Hi. There are many theories on how we get paid here. I tend to believe we get paid by the replies to others discussions they make. but no one knows for sure on any of mylots ways of figuring earnings.
@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
15 Feb 07
This has been happening to everyone, I think mylot is having a good clear out at the moment. So until they have done all that, we will find that the earnings are going down, I wouldn't worry to much.
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
15 Feb 07
Yeah. I'm just going to keep on posting and hope for the best. Good luck to you also.
@raveemenon (1071)
• India
14 Feb 07
My lot is the best forum i have ever seen . they are honest and prompt and also evaluate the postings. now what would have happened to you is that they evaluate the postings at intervals and make the adjustments. As some body has told here they paid extra last month. But my worry is whether they would be able to continue the payments like now once their membership goes above a lack or more. But i feel this is the best site. all other site where instant earnings are shown are all closed or become funny looking jackpot forums like DUNO or pay poster. web master forum is the only other i have seen reasonable but still lags behind my-lot. you have here good members and quality postings. I got very useful information here and it was nice to earn that way while widening my horizon of knowledge.
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
14 Feb 07
Yes. I agree. I like it here and will just have to get adjusted to the way they do things here.
@aretha (2538)
• United States
13 Feb 07
i don't understand alot of peoples went down and some went down alot but mine went up it makes know sense i would like to know. i hope you are feeling better my son has been really sick to
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
14 Feb 07
Thanks. I sure hope I feel better soon also. It is Wednesday now and still coughing. I can deal with that for a while. The other symptoms I had, kept me down.
@aretha (2538)
• United States
14 Feb 07
no he is better but the doc had him on 4 different over the counter meds but by the next morning he was 99% better and by the sounds it was the same thing you have. i really hope you are feeling 100% better soon
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@LittleMel (8742)
• Canada
13 Feb 07
That's what happened to me. My earning average was down although I posted the same number or more posts. If it is quality discussion then why my star is up from 8 to 9? I posted a lot of long responses, not only 2 lines. If I did then I usually add comments as additional, so overall it wasn't short posting and the comments didn't add to my number. I've heard some people said myLot wasn't really a good site but at the time I was new and didn't believe them, but I guess they are right. I will leave this site at the end of the month and will let my friends know before I go, just to make it fair for them.
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
13 Feb 07
Yeah. I have a backup site I use also for earnings. It is a forum also and alot quicker and easier to use and your earnings show up instantly.
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
13 Feb 07
Yeah it seems alot of good things come to an end before we know it, so it is always nice to have a backup in place.
@LittleMel (8742)
• Canada
13 Feb 07
I can't blame those people to refer me to other sites, they DO have a point and now I see it. Good for you too.
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• United States
15 Feb 07
I had the same thing happen to me. I lost $11.00 and was really upset. Mylot doesn't even tell you why. So, I don't have a clue what is going on anymore on this site. Sorry you lost earnings too. Blessings, M&M
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
15 Feb 07
Hi. I seen where you lost money also. I would be upset too. That is something else. Maybe will get a bonus sometime down the road, who knows. Things seem to be getting way slow around mylot for some reason.
@ESKARENA1 (18261)
15 Feb 07
this has been happening to a lot of us, from what i can gather its to do with the quality of answers we are giving. They have now started taking money away for those responses that mylot do not think of as quality. blessed be, keep on posting, blessed be
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
15 Feb 07
Hi. I try to give quality responses but I guess sometimes they aren't considered quality. Good luck to you also. Keep on posting.
• United States
13 Feb 07
I lost 69 cents too,a day before they pay me.But my post are still the same.I think that i might have respond to some discussion that they deleted.
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
14 Feb 07
Yeah. It just looks to me though, that if a post got deleted then our number of posts we made would also go down too. It's confusing LOL.
@adnanmd2 (830)
14 Feb 07
ya dude .. even mine..!!
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
15 Feb 07
I'm sorry to hear that. Maybe the earnings will adjust better later. good luck.
@sizzle3000 (3036)
• United States
13 Feb 07
I have not experienced this on this site. Have you writen to the one running the site? Maybe they gave you too much money in error and fixed it. Then again they could have made a mistake taking the money and they will put it back in a day. Write them and let them know you know. I keep track of all that I do on line. I write down each and every little thing to make sure that I am getting credit for every thing I do.
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
13 Feb 07
I haven't written mylot about it yet. I will wait and see how things go first. It could be readjusted later or something. I will just wait and see how it goes.
@saintz87 (439)
• Singapore
14 Feb 07
I have a question opposite of yours, despite not logging in MyLot for 3 days due to my projects, I have managed to up my earnings by more than 1 dollar. I am trying to clarify what has been happening, my posts were the same, but my earnings increased. It am suspecting if my previous responses are the cause of all this increment. I think that as people rate us, our earnings will fluctuate between up, or down based on the ratings. I hope that is just a myth, because I am worrying if one day, someone were to rate me down because I did not agree, or answer the way they want, my earnings will drop gradually. Morever, I think if we were to offend someone unintentionally, they will try all cause to rate us negatively. That is what I seem to be concern about now. What say you?
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
14 Feb 07
Same here. my earnings went up the other day and then yesterday they went down for some reason. I rate people positvely or I don't rate them at all. 99% of my rates are postive and the other ones I just don't rate either way. I'm not sure if we will ever figure this thing out. all we can do is try our best and go on with it. Good luck. I hope people are rating each other like we should. i also hope someone is not out there rating people badly on purpose.
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• United States
14 Feb 07
Mine went dowen one day also if they are going to penalise us shouldt they at least inform us why??someone said it is if somone reported an answer !if they ask a question they should be prepared for an answer they dont agree with or even like this is an oppen forum and all oppinions should be welcomed even ones we may dissagree with dont you think?
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
14 Feb 07
Yes. All opinions should be welcome. I'm just wandering if someone is out there making bad reports or ratings on people on purpose? It just seems to weird and odd. One day I got a bonus in earnings and a few days later I get deducted from. Too weird.
• India
13 Feb 07
I Am new to this place.......so i dunno much bout it........
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
13 Feb 07
Hi. Welcome to Mylot. I hope my post didn't scare you. Mylot gave me a bonus once but I was just wandering if I had done something wrong to lose earnings here. They do pay, so don't worry about that much.
@Willowlady (10658)
• United States
13 Feb 07
Sorry to hear that you were sick. Glad that you are back. Management has been tinkering with the earnings like they tend to do from time to time. Their algorithm thingy that changes often went through and did its thing. So earnings were adjusted. Just the way it works. I keep track of day to day earnings and calculate averages and this is nothing new. I ended up pretty good. Am glad. Am sad for the ones where it went down. The responses must be more like your discussion opener here to keep a consistent higher earnings. Good luck with this and I hope to see more things from you!!
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
13 Feb 07
Hi. Thanks for responding to my question or concern. I am still freshly adjusting to mylot and their ways. I did get a bonus once but this time there was a deduction so it kind of threw me for a loop. I hope to get back on track here also and I am glad to be back with you all.
@msmamaof2 (367)
• United States
13 Feb 07
Yes mine went down about 20 cents. I don't understand.
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
13 Feb 07
Okay. Some say now that mylot is cleaning up posts that we may have replied to that they considered to be rubbish.
@mari61960 (4893)
• United States
13 Feb 07
That stinks to be sick and come back to find you've lost some earnings. I wouldn't worry it's just the cleanup of bad posts I think. Mylot has told us our earnings will fluctuate until the time they actually pay us. It's that "secret algorithm" that they use...lol They don't always take money away.. sometimes they add it. I ended up with about 12.00 or so more all of a sudden just before the last payout. Now that was a nice suprise.. hang in there we may get it figured out someday..lol
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
13 Feb 07
Hi. Yeah, I got some extra earnings once. I was just scared that maybe I did something wrong. It will all work out in the end, I hope. I'm hanging inthere with you LOL.
@072006 (1276)
• India
13 Feb 07
hey friend, dont worry about it, as you can see there are around 69000 user on mylot, so on every day all those memebrs have someupdation in their earnings, may somewhat less or more, but mylot people have to do this for every user , so you really can imagine how lengthy and tidious work is this, so as it is getting done by some peopel there, so at daily updation there you amy find some changes like less or more in balance, but when mylot will process your final payout, your earning will be finaaly updated again, so be happy, and best luck!!!
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
13 Feb 07
Hello. Yeah I am happy with what I get but it would sure be nice to get an explanation sometimes as to what is going on LOL. I feel like all we do is speculate and guess LOL. Good luck to you also.
@rlshaw (871)
• United States
13 Feb 07
I'm sorry to hear that you have been sick and you earnings got axed... Mine did too... It makes me very sad... Yeah my posts didn't go down either... weird... Hopefully we won't get axed again... happy posting
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
13 Feb 07
Hi. Thank you for the condolence. I think we will still be okay. I just got worried when I seen that. I wasn' sure if I had done something wrong. All we can do is try and try again LOL.
@smartpk (193)
• Pakistan
13 Feb 07
some time it happenes with anyone because it a natural that anyone from us can be sick but don't worry do work more in next few days and compete others. And your concern wit posts it can be update in next day because system is workin quiet properly an defficiently.
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
13 Feb 07
Yeah. I'm just going to hang in there and hope for the best. I just wasn't sure why this happened because it is the first time it has happened to me so far.