How does MyLot.com evaluate thousands of posts each day?
By barbaraeyre
@barbaraeyre (326)
United States
July 4, 2007 10:29pm CST
This is my 4th day at MyLot.com and I was curious as to how they evaluate thousands of posts each day in order to calculate your earnings?
Since the amount of money you make is based on quality and such, how is it feasible that employees of MyLot would be able to evaluate thousands of posts each day for quality and image uploads in order to calculate your daily earnings?
I can't see any computer program doing this. That would open up a can of worms. How many would be angry cause their earnings is determined by a script? How would a script be able to determine the quality of a post?
So, the question goes out to those who have been here for a good while. How DOES MyLot.com process thousands of posts daily in order to calculate your earnings daily? Magic? Computer script? Employees numbering in the thousands? It's all random?
Thank you in advance for everyone's ideas, opinions, and thoughts on this.
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7 responses
@istanto (8548)
• Indonesia
5 Jul 07
mylot NOT evaluate post manually. of course and I truely believe 100% mylot using script to calculate how much your earning daily. The secret is on DRS (Discussion Rating System) alogarithm and mylot decline to share it into public for security reason.
@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
5 Jul 07
I am giving your response a (+) rating as you gave the same answer as I was going to give. (I can't give myself a (+) rating LOL)
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@barbaraeyre (326)
• United States
6 Jul 07
LOL me too, giving a +!
Thank you all for your responses. I'd figured I knew the answer, but I wanted to make sure.
I appreciate everyone's help.
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@kprabhu (439)
• India
5 Jul 07
Ya!this is nice question that runs on every ones mind!i once if you read the Terms and Messages of MyLot you can partially understand what is going in my lot earning system!i might think its automated system that runs always i suspect each time when you post response the automated system's vocabulary checks and rate for your comments and also it checks the word count and also feasible matches to the responds!to checking the image is the not a matter to find its quality of image and its pixels! i might think its to be a perfect automated system that runs every day!but the question is how many servers are resides world wide!
He Further said to them: "Be careful what you hear. The measure you deal out to others will be
dealt to you.with more added;" - "Mark 4:24".
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@barbaraeyre (326)
• United States
5 Jul 07
I, too, think it would have to be an automated script doing this. I can't see else it could be done with nearly 100,000 members here. But can a script tell if your postings are coherant and relavant? Thank you SO much for your response! And a good quote from the Bible!
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@VINAYBAR (364)
• India
15 Aug 07
I'd reckon it is a combination of many factors.They look for quality,quantity and originality.In the sense,your post has to be reasonably long,must have different words and must also not be of a repititive or of plagiarised nature.Plus,I'd reckon they look at the relevance of post with respect to the discussion.
@curvychick77 (1084)
• United States
5 Jul 07
Mylot is a special place, I'm sure they have a lot of people working here, who read everything and who decide what is appropriate and what isn't. I've often wondered how they do it myself, but I'm sure they have many ways. Anything is possible, even if it seems a bit unbelievable.
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@barbaraeyre (326)
• United States
5 Jul 07
Hmmm - elves you think? *grins* It does certainly make you wonder how they do it. And you're right - MyLot is a special place. I'm glad I joined!
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@beauty_ph (2749)
• Philippines
5 Jul 07
I must ne something like that automated programmed robot for reading and evaluating everything here in mylot. Some stuffs are the ones who works to create the program and to perfect it. Reading or evaluating posts or images can't be dome manually. Since mylot it powered by yahoo, I think what mylot have just just like what we have in yahoomail regading bulk messages. I hope this will help you figure out more. LOL.
I too is longing to explain everything to myself. Because I also do not know how they pay us. Well I am happy to have more than $16 now. LOL. God bless!
@nina_alan (53)
• Indonesia
29 Sep 07
I admit that mylot is a magical site, two thumb ups for the designer of this site.
@MySpot (2600)
• United States
31 Jul 07
That's a great question!
I believe that the evaluation process is largely due to the users ratings and responses. I'd imagine that our participation could determine which posts are quality or not.
As far as the earnings are concerned, it's definitely an automated system because as the last poster said, myLot has a very complex algorithm in place.
I'm sure they have actual people employed also who police the site and mediate, as most populated sites do. We, the users, can play part in reporting abuse too and you should see it when someone is cheating by stealing others' discussions and responses... we really come together, as a community, to rid ourLot of those type of users!
