Commenting on discussions is not only polite, but can earn you money too.

Yes, a lot of the new users tend to think that they don't get paid for commenting. This may be because it doesn't increase their post-count. I always comment on all my discussions and if someone replies to my comment, it really starts a good debate which is what mylot wants us to do. It wants us to start good topics which will get positive and negative response which i turn trigger intellectual debates.

i do know we will get paid for getting comments, posting discussion, posting replies and so on.. even uploading picture.. but.. do you know how many post will eventually get you $1? i think it's alot. .because i posted 60 post yesterday.. and i got $1.19 .. i think that's a little bit little.. because 60 post is not little.. it requires lot of hardwork too.. i think it's because no one replied my discussion.. my reputation here is going down.. maybe because i posted the wrong discussion earlier.. people think i'm trying to manipulate the system.. it's wrong.. i will work for mylot until next month.. then i'll see if there's any changes.. if not.. i will just leave it :(

I also do think we get paid for responding to peoples' discusssion and not to our own personal discussions. I have tried responding to my discussions and in all honesty, my discussion rating did not go up so i decided against responding to my discussion

Hi friends, thanks for starting this thread. although i used to give comments to my own discussion and others discussions i replied but that number was less. i hope to increase my commenting more as it makes the discussion more meaningful and interesting. i think mylot pays for commenting also although that amount may be very small but they do.

I hate how people are constantly saying that we DON'T get paid for commentingg on discussions cos it can make the discussions pretty lame if people don't like to reciprocate in them. The other day I had very little activity and when I cam eon to check my earnings I had ONE WHOLE CENT. Obviously I realised I could work out what I done for that cent. I had commented on a comment someone had left me for my response on someone elses discussions. DId I explain that clear enough. I had previously responded to a discussion, someone asked me a question adn I logged on and answered it and that is all I done. It was a one liner and I got a cent. I think this is alright considering it was such a short response that took me the total of 5 seconds. So YES we do get paid for comments as you have pointed out. We get paid for our contributions to myLot and building up the community. Money shouldn't be everything anyway. I can't understand how people say they are just here for the money but yet the get paid a dollar or so for a few hours work. I get paid $12 an hour and I am a waitress!

yep, mylot definitely pays for making comments. A few days ago I didn't make any responses or start any discussions - all I did one morning was make a few comments to one of my discussions. I earned $0.09. This seemed like about 3c for each comment - I rated as well though - but that is very easy and quick to do. One day i earned $1.02 with 30 responses all of them which i tagged, rated and i also commented to some of my own discussions. Another day i made 40 responses with the same activities and made $1.70 in total (it was 86c then the rest was carried over onto the next day).