WHY AM I NOT PAID WHILE IM GETTING ANSWERS TO MY DISCUSSIONS ?

If you joined yesterday, but it has not been 24 hours since you joined, then that is why you haven't seen any earnings. They are only updated once a day and we haven't been paid for Sunday yet.

I am at $8.92 now

haha, I about to say, if you haven't received anything in 24 hours, that's rough. Chances are your first day you won't earn much. I think I earned like 43 cents my first day, but I was still learning. So far I'm at $2.33 and it's been 4 days and I'm waiting for mylot to update in 6 hours to get my current earnings. I'm hoping it'll be close to 4 dollars since I've been making more discussions and replying more.