Are you earning as much as you could be with myLot?

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I have been a member of myLot for around a year now. I am not active daily and I don't do this to make money, although I do like watching the pennies add up! Who doesn't? So far I have 56 posts and my earnings are at $1.94. I think I posted 1 or 2 pictures and have about 3 active referrals. At the rate I am going I should be at the minimum $10 payout by the time I reach 300 posts or somewhere thereabouts. Judging by what I have read, this is pretty good as some of you have posted over 300 and are not near to payout yet. But it is also not the best as I have read of some who accomplished far better. I have also noticed that there does not seem to be a known guideline for how to maximize your earnings per post, although there have been some suggestions on how to boost them, such as posting relevant pictures with your topic. I have given this some thought and I can not see how myLot could afford the time or financial expense of reading through each individual post and rating it with a monetary value. Screening for spammers is easy, as the myLot community is quick to purge any offender. So how do they keep track of the most valuable posts??? How do they know which ones are worth $ and which ones are just average??? I think it has to be the ratings. When I read a post that is just perfectly thought out and executed, I get a sense of satisfaction from reading it, and the first thing I do is to rate it with a positive. If I read a post that says pretty much what the 10 posts before said, I continue to the next one, no rating. I only give a negative if someone is being abusive or inappropriate. Obviously, myLot would want to reward those posters who make the readers feel satisfaction, ignore those that are redundant and do not contribute value to the discussion, and penalize those that abuse the system. So it stands to reason that they use the ratings to give monetary rewards as well as take them away (in the case of negative ratings). Similarly, they would use the best response chosen for rewarding as well. I would guess that those who earn the minimum payout in short order are also those that achieve best responses in their discussions. So to summarize, If you want to earn quickly with myLot, go for quality, do your research, and stick to what you know. Before responding to a discussion, make sure that what you are contributing has not already been said. If everyone spent a little more time articulating the best thing to say, instead of just trying to say as much as possible, we'd all be a lot happier with our myLot experience. Excerpt from myLot FAQ's "Discussion activity earnings are calculated based on a proprietary model that rewards quality responses, relevant discussions and images." I would like to say finally, that if this topic was already opened, I apologize for the redundancy. I did look for one similar but did not have all day to review the available topics.