Should myLot impliment a minimum character requirement?

I think they should implement a minimum character requirement for compensation, but not necessarily for posting something period. I think they might be headed that way by reviewing the newly announced guidelines. Anything that can be done to promote more conversation / discussion / debate is a good thing in my opinion. The more that can be done in this area, the quicker this will seem like a community.

Having a reward based on character length would lead to abuse as well. People would quickly start copying and pasting huge chunks of text into responses; then we're going to see a LOT of junk. We do have the rating functionality for each and every response. Perhaps if everyone rates (+ or -) all the responses that they come across and read, this would help to give incentive to people to post more responses of substance.

That might be a good idea but the negative side could be that some people may take advantage and type a lot of words which don't necessarily mean anything or which doesn't even make sense, just a whole bunch of letters. I think some questions such as "where do you live?" and "How old are you?" would be at least mostly illiminated but there would still be people using more words to get around it.

mylot payment equation would definitely have incorpporated the minimum number of characters Thats the reason you see a lot of people complaining abt bein paid less than others in uk or us.......the call centre country guys simply dont understand just postina one worder one line doesnt work ..they need to discuss ....its not an objective reasoning test

A minimum character limit could help.. but what is really required, is probably some discipline from all the users towards what they post.. The bulk of the posts are choice questions.. as in whether you like/hate/love X or Y and why.. Other posts are in the realm of when is someone's birthday.. what's the first letter of their name.. and the like.. While I'd like to earn money, I feel it should be a meaningful exercise... my 2 cents...

O Lawdy Miss Tawdy. If I were paid on that basis they would probably go bankrupt in a week. Once I get going I can't seem to stop. I try to be as succinct as possible but sometimes it is very difficult. Even in my comments on the responses I usually wind up writing a short story of a condensed version of a story like Reader's Digest. But I do think that you are right in that there should be a way to encourage people to think and write more. I'm sure of those who are writing yes or no and the like could write some interesting responses if they tried. We all have something to say on just about whatever. When I get comments with something to say I do not rate them either on my postings or on those of someone else's. Only time will tell. What gets me most is those same people sometimes come up with a fairly good posting and then forget, neglect or don't take the time to to indicate that they have read any of the comments.

Maybe who knows? A Dee do. smile You are right though sometimes people only respond with two or three words. God Bless

I don't think so, and yea they should ...

heah good thought I should say... In many cases it is even rightful on the part of myLot to put such a restriction, because the main purpose of putting up such a forum is to bring in more of meaningful discussions, not to just spam the forum, i mean whatever you call it, noise etc. But you know, there are some really good discussions, where in you get to know people, or you acknowledge responses, and other such activities, where in the minimum limit cannot be imposed...

yes i agree with you people just say hi or hell and tht becomes a reply

I don't think you get paid for typing "Thank You for your post" or any replies for that matter do you?I have given up on posting topics to try to start discussions. Nobody ever replies.