MyLot Earnings Could this be True?
@whiteheather39 (24403)
United States
November 25, 2008 6:48am CST
I was talking with a friend about myLot and how you could earn from posting and I said that it was encouraged to post quality responses to increase your earning. My friends husband overheard us and said he did not think that anyone in myLot admin would have the time to read every response and critique it for quality but that they probably had some software in place to count keystrokes (as they do where he works) and that would be the basis for computing the earnings!! Do you think this is true or possible? MyLot guidelines tells you not to post just one word responses.
Which could not take many keystrokes so what do you think?
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62 responses
@medney1988 (560)
• United States
25 Nov 08
that makes more sense than someone reading all these posts. it would take a lot of people to go through everyday and read to see the quality of responses. they probably only deleter the threads that people make complaints about because i find it hard to believe that they read through all of them to make sure they are appropriate
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@AnythngArt (3302)
• United States
26 Nov 08
I agree with you that they probably don't have time to focus on individual discussions on the whole, but I wonder then, how do you think they come up with the star quality? I do think proper English gets into the mix, but I am not sure how. Maybe they take a sampling of the posts? How is it that a person moves from one star level to the next if it is all computerized? Just putting it out there. I don't have any answers.
@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
26 Nov 08
The star quality is computed on a percentage of how many plus (+) or negative (-) ratings other myLotter give your responses or discussions.
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@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
26 Nov 08
medney1988 I agree with you. They would need a huge staff to do everything manually.
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@Khayam (346)
• Romania
25 Nov 08
I think there might be some elements that define a good post/answer.
- keywords density. A certain density of words can offer a good pattern of the post's relevance
- length of the post - arguably, there are many chances to offer better information in a longer post
- viewers/readers/markers - the notoriety of a post, the feedback of the readers are important variables (best response, rate discussion, etc)
@mansha (6298)
• India
25 Nov 08
I agree witrh khayam, I also feel thast these three along with member's comments and reports and rating help to choose the best response and density of certain words may be the thing not only the key strokes and if you type rubbish you are bound to have that response removed from your discussion. many have tried cheating mylot before they could succeed only for a little while and not long enough to claim their earnings of the month.
@AnythngArt (3302)
• United States
26 Nov 08
This was a great reply. How do you think they do the star system?
@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
26 Nov 08
The star quality is computed on a percentage of how many plus (+) or negative (-) ratings other myLotter give your responses or discussions
@breezie (1246)
• Canada
25 Nov 08
I agree. I don't think that they have people reading every post, but they may have people checking out some of them. Both the page veiw numbers and the keystroke idea seem believable, but really I have no idea. I have just given up on trying to figure out the way payment is assigned on this site and just enjoy posting here.
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@kerriannc (4279)
• Jamaica
25 Nov 08
Whiteheather your friend can be telling the truth. The things that have been happening here in MYLOT can conclude this. There will be discussions here that if persons does not report it then it will never be deleted. There are discussions that are will put together but because persons become malicious against the writer than it becomes deleted as well. This conclude me to say that he is correct in his explaination to you.
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@anneshirley (1516)
• Philippines
25 Nov 08
I do agree with the husband because surely there's no way you can monitor everything here in MyLot! With just few seconds, new discussion is being made and so is new for old discussion. I for one, sometimes can't follow through with what's new and what's not. There's no way that a person will sit here, read then rate each discussion. I am familiar with the program you're husband is talking about because it is also one of the part time of my brother so I believe him.
@Eskimo (2315)
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28 Nov 08
MyLot has posted several notices about how earnings are calculated, it is by a specific algorithm which looks at all the discussions and responses, and calculates out how much each is worth. Mylot will not give out any other information about this algorithm, apart from the fact is it updated periodically.
My earnings do fluctuate quite a bit from my discussions and responses. I think it would be difficult for MyLot to look at every single discussion and response.
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@sheenshaukat (2617)
• Pakistan
3 Dec 08
Yes, this may be true, as the world has been changed and many of such jobs are performing the software of computer. But we should remember that no software could run by it self. Administrative power of human brain is necessary for it. Here I believe that this work is done by the administrative staff with the help of some software.
@kdhartford (1151)
• United States
25 Nov 08
I think that you are partially correct. Not only do they use keystrokes to measure quality, but they must also have another program that measures the grade level of the responses and how many syllables are in each word. I also think that they may also use a program to determine how many words are in each sentence. I think that they can measure quality in many ways. I for one am the master of the concise and clear answer.
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@jewilim (495)
• Philippines
25 Nov 08
I think there is one way to find out. You could post a very long paragraph of nonsense in just one whole day. I mean just pure nonsense which is very long like posting song lyrics here or bedtime stories and see how much you would earn from it. hehe. I think then we would really see if either quality or quantity is really the basis of computation of our earnings here. I think the basis of computation of our earnings here is not transparent enough for us to be able to know where we really need to work on to earn more here but i think someday someone would eventually figure out how our earnings here are being computed. hehe
@ESKARENA1 (18261)
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26 Nov 08
Great idea, but i think you will find the self styled mylot police would report it and have it removed, doubt anyone would allow it to happen
blessed be
@SydneyHazelton (4586)
• Singapore
26 Nov 08
While many people at mylot believe in getting quality responses, I believed that it could be based on the number of words. But your husband has a valid point there. There could be other ways to compute earnings without readign each and every post here. If there are 150,000 active members and they each make 1 post, that is already 150,000 posts to read. I don't think mylot has that many staff and still can pay us. How do you count keystrokes anyway?
@liquorice (3887)
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27 Nov 08
Yes, undoubtedly they have some software which counts the number of words or characters to measure the length of each reply. They may also use a spellchecker or grammar checker if spelling and grammar are also components of myLot's secret algorithm. (Who knows? 
)
I'm sure that no organisation would be big enough or have enough resources to have someone read each discussion and each reply (and each reply to a reply etc..). They wouldn't have any money left to pay us, and would probably no longer exist! I believe, and have also been told in the past, that the qualitative criterion, such as whether a response/discussion is well-written, relevant, makes any sense (
), meets myLot rules and regulations etc.. are based on the ratings that we get from our fellow myLotters. How many pluses and minuses we get.
)
I'm sure that no organisation would be big enough or have enough resources to have someone read each discussion and each reply (and each reply to a reply etc..). They wouldn't have any money left to pay us, and would probably no longer exist! I believe, and have also been told in the past, that the qualitative criterion, such as whether a response/discussion is well-written, relevant, makes any sense (), meets myLot rules and regulations etc.. are based on the ratings that we get from our fellow myLotters. How many pluses and minuses we get.1 person likes this
@messageme (2821)
• United States
27 Nov 08
This may be true, but is that saying that even though you have a very valuable response but just because it's short you don't get much credit for it? Some responses can be summed up in one to two sentence and could be the best response but just because it's short you don't get the credit.
I could repeat this over and over and get more credit for it just becasue its long...that don't make much sense.
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@liquorice (3887)
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27 Nov 08
You made a good point; it is possible make a valuable response using just one or two words! However, one known factor with myLot (and there are many unknowns, lol!) is that we earn more by posting longer responses and discussions. It's often recommended that each post should be at least 4 or 5 lines long.
myLot uses a special algorithm to calculate each of our earnings, and the components that go into this special formula are a well-kept secret only known to myLot staff! As well as length of post, there are undoubtedly variables that relate to the quality of our response; things like does it give good information?, does it make sense?, is it relevant to the question? (That would discourage us from giving answers where we simply repeat the word "banana" 40 times, for example!)
So no, repeating something over and over again won't give you more credit. The credit we get is based on some combination of length of post and quality of post.
Happy myLotting!
@MAMANG_MALDITO (48)
• Philippines
27 Nov 08
Ghee i been a member of this site for weeks now and not taking mylot seriously. But after some realization, i am begging to like my stay here. Thanks for bring up this topic. i am learning so much from this post.
@Thoroughrob (11742)
• United States
25 Nov 08
I can see how that could work. The also can see how many posts you made along with how many keystrokes and could figure it out that way.
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@livewyre (2450)
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25 Nov 08
I am sure they employ both automated and manual systems. Firstly I would expect an automated system to make rudimentary 'judgments' about post 'quality'. IE. to detect no of keystrokes (sufficient to reach the magic 4 lines of text). I would also expect there to be some rudimentary checks for occurrences of expected format/vowels/recognised words etc.. Further to that I expect there are administrators who would manually trawl the forum flagging up abuses of the system.
I would think that the automated system would allocate a value to each post (in cents) which could easily be manually approved which would explain the delay in payment updates. Just a guess, the approval of payments could be just automatic but delayed of course...
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@bamakelly (5191)
• United States
25 Nov 08
I have been on this site for a little while now and I believe that the quality answers that are descriptive and have length in them have helped me and they should help you too.
There is something like an algorithm that is somehow what makes this thing tick. It picks up on your key strokes in one way or another in my opinion.
I would just stay dedicated here and make your posts worthy and give them quality. If your answers are helping people then then that helps you also.
One word answers aren't going to cut it and you will see it in your earnings. 
@kiran8 (15348)
• Mangalore, India
25 Nov 08
I am almost sure that is the case.How on earth can we expect a person to go through all the responses and then decide on what is good and what is a better response.They are sure to have a software that is able to detect depending on some guidelines that the admin has set in.I think you are right about short answers..i have a feeling they do will not be considered...and i was wondering if we are replying for a second time in the same post? does that qualify for a payment?
@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
26 Nov 08
You can earn a maximum of 2 points if you post a response to someone's discussion, 1 point earned, and then also make a comment to another myLotters response another point earned.
@kiran8 (15348)
• Mangalore, India
27 Nov 08
Thanks a lot for that information.It is very difficult to make out exactly what you have earned for your response, since it is shown not even the next day , but the day after if i am not mistaken.I am sure the length of ones posting does matter.If it is short may be you get nothing..
@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
26 Nov 08
....and to post a long/length to your post you have to make a lot of keystrokes...and if the post are not being read and counted by a person it can be done with software!!
@bicoycoy (10)
• Philippines
25 Nov 08
uhm im new here so i guess i would need to gather more information about how to earn much more. but base from what i have read from your replies, MyLot seems to scale a lot of answers or replies from its "quality", and by quality it would affect a lot of factors. the factors may include the number of keystrokes as much as 15 characters per response so it would not be classified as spamming. next would be the sense or the main point of the reply, for no matter how lengthy a response is if the point is not that clear it may be a bore so it would not count and may not be taken into consideration, the facto of the matter is it should be direct and clear. :D
im still new so i would be glad if i can find people who share their opinions about this topic :D
