Quality = Quantity??

It's not quite as easy as you might think. What you say implies either a program that can read and decide how much quality resides within a post, or several dozen MyLot admins reading every single comment and deciding how much credit it would get. The first option is out of the question, since a computer cannot decide such things, and the second one is expensive for the owner. You can let the community decide exactly how much quality a post contains by adding different levels of rating each post, however that would lead to "good friends" rating themselves to the max for who knows how many lines, or for who knows what answers similar to "Indeed." or stuff like that. There is basically no way of properly crediting people for discussions. My second suggestion is the only plausible one I can think of that can actually work, but I'm not sure someone would pay people to read and rate comments... then again, we do have MyLot that pays for posting... who knows, right?

I think quality lies in the details. If an answer can be given with a one liner, it's quality if it's correct. Adding a little extra meat to a response of discussion is always good though. It gives people room to respond, and may even inspire them to share their views as well. When someone leaves a reply along the lines of "I like that too.", it leaves a lot to be desired. Why not go into why you feel that way? Sure limited communication in any medium just tends to leave people with a sense of emptiness after the exchange. I never understood why people wouldn't be more open to share their views in online communities. Flooding the place with quick posts will only lead to a tsunami of "Why?" questions, asking you to elaborate on your thoughts. Doing that on myLot of all places seems counter productive. Making quality posts will yield better results than typing 4 word responses a few dozen times a day.

edxcast You hardly ever can make a really interesting and easy to understand discussion in just two lines,you flesh it out and you will get more responses as we will understand what you meant and can respond.I know that two lines pays very little and a lot of times it is written in haste and a lot of those get no answers at all. a good discussion has to make sense if the poster wants us to read and reply to it. quality has to do with us being able to understand the discussion and more words usually will do that.

You know you make a valid point. If you read the information it does state that you should have a minimum of 4 sentences. Okay, so if I were to write; "Hi how are ya?" 4 times, does that count. Do they believe that would be a quality discussion? It is interesting when you think about how we as individuals validate quantity and quality.

When I am on this topic my view is Quantity of Quality is the most important.

I think many of us that say quality vs quantity mean that they need to write more on one response and elaborate on what they are saying versus starting a bunch of nonsense post that are single liners that they never send follow up responses to. Certainly you can make a good quality post in a couple of lines posting a complete thought with some elaboration. But on the other hand someone could post 5 lines that are completely off subject and that make no sense at all. We encourage quality so that their rating is higher and that they will be a respected member here on myLot.

Well, I think it's difficult for a system to judge the quality, as it's quite subjective. Unless mylot hires some people to read all the posts (which is impossible!), otherwise the system has to judge the post based on the quantity, i.e. the length of the post. Like what others said, too short reply is usually not a quality post, as it's not easy to express your opinion in just a few words. Also, mylot has a feature which is for the discussion starter to mark the best response. This is to let the discussion starter which post carries the most values, in a way of judging the quality of the post.

My personal opinion on this topic is, that mylot wants discussions started and for us to respond to them if we have something to add to the discussion. What makes a discussion=the exchanging of ideas back and forth, or questions and responses. So I deduce from this that if you start a discussion with some length that gives details it allows a person to come in with a response, the longer the response, the better able someone can come along and comment. When multiple mylotters are commenting back and forth in a response box, you now have a discussion going, which equals more money for all participating. So think about it a discussion is started that is 2 sentences, not much meat there, so comments generally will be short and not enough meat in the discussion or the response to actually get a discussion going back and forth. I hope this makes sense. So to the new mylotters out there if you start a discussion and get responses try and go back and comment to your responders and get a discussion going and you may be pleasantly surprised to see your earnings going up. The comments get smaller but the discussion continues. As always just my 2 cents worth!!!

I posted a question "how do you make more money on mylot?" Quality posts. Its all about quality.

The quality of the discussion and posy has to come first. A lot of posts are pointless if they have no meaning behind them. The quality must outweigh the quantity to be of the greatest value.

I don't really know how they measure quality in our posts. I just post whatever i think is right. I read discussions and then i try to understand it then i post everything i know about a topic. Sometimes i search the net about the discussion first then i post it.

Wow! Good point there! Quality is definitely not equal to quantity. One can make a direct to the point statement in less than 5 sentences. I guess what admin is trying to do here by asking 5 sentences as minimum post is to discourage MyLotters from typing few sentences without making any sense. Oh well! Since this is their site, might as well follow what they ask. Besides, it will help you elaborate more with your responses.

I don't think you are totally right, edxcast. Indeed, writing "lata" does not mean quality, and sometimes it is exactly the contrary. You can have more impact with two words than with ten lines . There is a category of myLot members knowing that perfectly : the taggers -- I don't want to call them "trolls" : tags may be humorous --. Any member can tag a discussion, and some are not doing anything else. They don't earn anything here, but they mark like that their interest to myLot, and tags are important when you search a discussion. MyLot has more than 200000 members, how many are starting a discussion or responding daily : 1%, 2%, ? And in that number how many old -- let's say with more than 5000 posts -- members ? They are rare ! A casual observer can see two different strategies among them, that we are not supposed to discuss here. One is prolix with new members, and the other less wordy, but both are payed each month : length of a response is not the only parameter. Happy myLotting.

Good day mylotter, I understand,there are instances that we can explain our view,idea and knowledge in a few line much clearer and better. but mylot requires that our response should be descriptive as possible..meaning to say in my opinion;our views,idea and knowledge on a particular subject should be express the whole detail if not to be substantive in facts.. And of course response should be related to the discussion.Otherwise,it will have no essence,even the response is long. Quality + quantity is BETTER..

I agree and disagree at the same time. 4 lines of gibberish probably will not make you much. I agree that you can say 'more' in 2 lines than 5 lines. True. But what if the 5 lines are not really understandable or even the two lines. That is where quality comes in. It is not a matter of how many lines you have posted, though the longer you make it to make your points clearer the better. The truth is, you have to make yourself clear. You need to get yourself be understood in what you are trying to say and it has to be about the topic. You can go on and on about how the world is round and not flat for pages and pages. That will not get you any credits if you post it under ...hm....'My bf/gf is cheating me'. That is where quality comes in. Just saying you are right or I agree, or I disagree, does not make a discussion. You have to say something about the discussion and make your own points which ever way you feel to make it quality. Sorry for my gibberish. As you can probably deduce, I am not much of a writer.