now im really confused

My best word of advise is to just keep doing everything. Keep posting new discussions, keep commenting on opions,keep responding to discussions. Give full length answers to resposes. It is good to post as much as you can on that topic, it helps not just you, but also mylot and everyone else, who is viewing what you are putting. Keep mylotting.

As you can see from all the responses that you have, people are different. All the advise from every one is excellent. It is now up to you to try different things that will work for you. In the beginning it will be hard as you are restricted with what you can do. As time moves on and the number next to your name in brackets grow, you can find more ways to earn. Every day for you will be different. Each response you give will always be different as the discussions will be different. Get yourself familiar with guidelines for discussions because they will give you a guide on what to do and what not to do. Even they will help you to recognise disscussions that you may need to keep away from as they have violated the guidelines. Keep active and post away. You probably find that you will have more fun just posting away that you might even forget your earnings will be increasing each day.

They have their own criteria of award. How much per post they pay is something difficult to say but s long as you concentrate good content, you can get reasonable amount and you need not worry on this account.

Well first of all, I've only completed two tasks and they actually took a while to be approved. I want to say it took like a week or so. And secondly, you're paid different for each response. Your responses should be well thought out and as long as possible. We are paid for the amount that we write but also for the quality. Posting just a few words as a response isn't going to get you much, but a paragraph answering someones discussion question will. I never exactly understand my earnings here, because like you said, they vary from day to day, but I do know that the more you write, the more you'll get paid! Happy Mylotting. :-)