I Made $10 Yesterday By Responding To One Discussion On MyLot!!

LOL! I was trying to grab everyone's attention, and it seems to have worked far better than I had ever imagined - lol! Sometimes I just get frustrated repeating the same things over and over again, especially when it seems that nobody is listening, even after they ask the question. I have been really tempted to do something like this for a while, and finally I just could not resist the urge any longer. Yes, it does depend on how important the discussion is, especially in the off-line world. I think that if it is important, then it is not only frustrating but also very hurtful when someone does not bother to listen to what you are saying. Like you said, though, if it is just random social babble, then I must admit that I have been guilty of this crime.

I didn't notice the discussion at all I just followed the scent of a beautiful purple flower

I never seen a Purple devil in my life ----how would it be Does it have two horns which help her to attract some scape goats for the Good-bad meal for the night

This box is quiet informative for those who never heard of Quakes and Quacks

It is a scale used to measure assquakes, I presume .

ROFL @ 'rectum scale' hmm...it'll be interesting to know what the rhyme was used for...

@ PA: But of course! LOL @ hexeduser: I guess it would depend on how you look at it. Here's the discussion about it: http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/2327541.aspx Check it out...if you dare! Then you'll find out what PA's talking about! LOL

LOL! I heard that you liked to be on the top, so you just had to beat me with earnings, too, huh? Yes, I have done the whole blurting thing a few times and gotten various responses. For some reason, though, talking about stripping nekkid and jumping in the swimming pool usually will get a guy's attention immediately, especially if there is no swimming pool in sight! Regarding the newer users and people that only read the title, I have actually had several responses with people that were angry at me for this discussion. Apparently I was wrong all these months on here, because I have now been informed several times that we are not supposed to be trying to grab a reader's attention and get responses on here, and it is bad if we do.

"like to be on top" is somehow a double meaner to me or maybe I'm just imagining things It's good that newbies find this discussion so they could be guided accordingly because I'm sure Purple will take good care of tehm

That's why.. I always appreciate your discussions and others too. I think discussions that can be prolonged especially with good topics are concrete and solid. You are so right; that's where all the earnings come from..if only some wouldn't waste so much time on asking and start to participate, hee-hee. But if they are new users and not so sure, it should be alright, because after some time, they will know it..

We always have super darn good conversations, Zed! I see it happening here, and of course it happens off-line, too. I do try to answer questions most of the time, and I listen to the answer to my questions when I ask them. I just don't understand why people ask for help or advice or whatever and then do not listen to the answers. If it is on here, perhaps they are just typing anything to try to make money, but then why wouldn't you type about something that you really care about and want to discuss? Obviously people do not realize that is how you earn money on here no matter how many times you try to tell them.

how do I earn money on this website? I'm new here. Could you guys help me out here?

Sunny - It is frustrating when it happens on here, and it is frustrating when it happens off-line, too. The worst part is when they presumably want your help with something and yet will not listen to anything that you have to say. How can they expect your help or an answer to a question when they will not listen to anything that anyone else has to say? Hex - Flattery will get Sunny everywhere!

I don't envy that purple...

Now you're flattering her

Thank you for the compliment. Yes, the title especially was satire partly about how people think that they can just create a million one-line discussions on here and never respond back to any comments and still earn a bunch of money. Then, these same people keep asking why things get deleted and complaining about how they never earn any money, but no matter how many times or how many people try to explain how things work around here these people never seem to listen or want to understand. It was also about how people off-line will ask for help or guidance or whatever, and then when you try to explain something or give your opinion or perspective or explain why something is the way it is, they zone out and do not listen but will still expect you to help them out whenever asked. Worse yet is when you have to try to find different ways to explain the same thing, because they do not want to hear or try to understand anything other than what they believe. What storm has this discussion created in your mind? Are you now thinking about how people both on-line and off-line seem to do this? How do you handle people that seek out your help and then don't want to listen to what you have to say? Do you have friends or family that seem to zone out when you have something important to say? What do you do then?

I like how Alexx worded his statement here. Its not like my creative(wacky)response

What a coincident here!..... It is my $10 response. I am near to my minimum payout. Finally this response of me will lead me to my minimum payout... so it is technically a $ 10 response..... It is ridiculous to complain on anything without knowing properly about the environment. Most commonly they make more complain who are not aware of the guideline. What is deleted here has sufficient cause for deletion. It is not a profit making business. Basically this site is for fun with little renunciation. What we earn here from this site is an additional benefit. And on the people who don't want to listen other are actually not fitted for discussion. I really wonder about them, why they come here if they have nothing to discuss about. Discussion are exchange of thought and views. It not necessary that we need to be agree with all views expressed here. But need to listen. Need to justify. Because discussion makes the knowledge perfect. Those people who think that only they are correct and zero tolerances to other comment are really blunt people. So I think they are against the environment of discussion. It is really storming discussion. Because the tittle of this discussion carries the hidden desire of people to be rich in second. Every one want to get more.... even more than the capability. Really it is not bad if we would awarded $ 10 for every response. Ask the question yourself .... Is it bad? ..... But it is not possible. Is this not a storming tittle. I am innocent in expressing my thought here........./..

Well we need to start a support group for women who's husbands don't listen to them when they speak!!!!! who wants to be the president???

LOL! This seems to be a very common disease that appears to affect more husbands than wives ... either that or the husbands zoned out half-way through my discussion and forgot to respond to it complaining about their wives! I have had that happen a time or two as well. I will tell my husband a whole story about something that happened, and he will add little comments as if he is listening and understanding what I am saying. Then, when I am finished speaking (not even waiting for an hour or anything so that maybe what I said slipped his mind or something) he will turn around and ask if I ever heard anything more about "thus and such", which is what I just finished explaining to him.

I guess its an epidemic among husbands. I'll make sure that when I become a husband I will not zone out...most of the time I need to be more sensitive now to prepare myself in the future so I wont be affected by this incurable epidemic of zoning out

I think I would be afraid to ask that, though, because with my luck they would just answer "yes"!lol[b][/b].. I think if that happened, I would start to roar with laughter and bore them some more.. I like to play games sometimes, it makes life so much more fun. _Derek

LOL @ "I have 'tested' them by saying something completely out of context just to see if they say,'yes'"! My oldest daughter used to try to slip in those types of questions when she thought that I wasn't listening just to see if I would agree. Then, she figured that she could do it and get away with it, because I did say yes. Fortunately, she only thought I wasn't listening, so she never actually got away with it! I also like how you ask them if you are boring them, and that gets them to listen. I think I would be afraid to ask that, though, because with my luck they would just answer "yes"!

"hey! you are not listening to what I say. Am I boring you or something?" you sound like my history professor My classmates seems not interested in history so they just mind their business and chat with each other while she is talking. Every time she gives that line I smile because I seem to be the only one listening

I have a bad habit of tuning people out, which started with R, but now I find myself doing it with the kids too. I need to slap myself. :D

Dawn - I can give you the $10 in cash, but I suggest waiting until the ink is done drying on it first! I thought that I was the only one that had someone that could read my mind and complete my sentences, but I am glad to hear that I am not alone here. The thing is that they somehow always manage to complete what I was saying totally wrong, and yet they never learn that they have absolutely no idea what I was about to say. I have tried saying "Hmmm ... that was an interesting twist to the story that I had never imagined" and "I think you need a refund on your crystal ball" and various other things that are not as nice, but alas it does not help.

not too hard now...

When a person has a disease or disability, then it is an entirely different story. It can still be frustrating having to repeat things over and over just to get your point across, but at least it is understandable. When someone is asking a question or wants your help, on the other hand, but will not listen to the answer or what you have to say, then that is a completely different issue. Thank you for the congratulations. I am glad that you do not read the disclaimers ... I will have to put more in our discussions, then, because I can have a lot of fun with it if you do not read them.

I know what you mean : two days ago I spent a moment to find and give two good links to a member, and the comment was showing that he did not looked at them . I think he/she (I don't remember) does that all the time. A friend explained me years ago that you can fill in ignorance but stupidity is a full . Next time invert your disclaimer and title : it can make a fun discussion too .

how about the title itself is the disclaimer

Rosegardens, I am very sorry that you feel cheated. It seems that I have offended a bunch of people, which really was not my intent at all. As to the handy man that you hired, you handled the situation much better than I probably would have, especially if he had been talking over me and making fun of me. I probably would have done exactly what you thought about doing with the hammer. That is not only rude but also completely inappropriate, especially when you are paying him to do the work the way you want it done. I mean, it would not be alright for him to treat you like that no matter what, but the fact that you are paying him and then he treats you like that makes it even worse, in my opinion.

Oh my are you sure that handy man you hired is not experimenting his techniques in your house?

Goodness, please do not feel badly about your joke and my response. It is meant only in fun. I do not really feel cheated. The guy doesn't ask much money from me because he is aware of my financial situation, so maybe he feels justified in what he does. Even so, if I have more money I will give him more than he asks because he at times can be a blessing. That is, when he does a job the way it should be done. He can be a complete jerk at times as well. I have learned if he tells me how he is going to do something, or the best route to go, and it is not what I want then he does not do the job. He will always do it the way he wants it done, even if it is wrong or looks bad.

LOL! You obviously have not met certain members of my family. They talk so fast that I don't think that their own brains can process the information before it flows out of their mouths, and you would wonder the same thing to if you ever listened to some of the things that they say! Seriously, though, you do have a good point. People process things at different rates, so perhaps the "mind wandering" is really that they are following a train of thought and will be back momentarily or maybe they are just processing and trying to evaluate what you are saying and determine whether or not you are making sense or have a valid point.

Wow another additional information. Where did you learn that? Forgive me manila I'm really a sucker for information. I can't help it I love learning new things

U have a good sense of humour :) I think the accepted rate that we hear/listen is 240 words a minute if memory serves correctly ... maybe you can time your family members ;) best wishes! Eric

I agree with you ... I do not like to be ignored either, especially when someone asks you a question or asks for your help and then does not listen to anything you have to say. Why bother asking if you aren't going to listen to the answer? I also have to agree that different tactics work better with different people. I do not think there is only one way to handle the situation, and it depends not only on the person that is ignoring you and the circumstances surrounding the event, such as whether or not there is something happening at that moment that they can't control that has captured their attention. Still, it can be quite frustrating and sometimes even depressing, especially if you are trying to say something really important and can't seem to make yourself heard.

You've got a point bluemoon. There are really attention seeking people and that maybe could answer the follow up question of Purple Purple- I'm beginning to really love this discussion because I'm learning a lot and many mylotters have wonderful inputs. I can see the transition from my wacky responses to this mode(I can't describe my mood hence the word mode)

Maybe some people would do something to attract attention, even asking questions without expecting to get an answer back.

Thank you for the compliment. I have encountered situations on here where no matter what you say it seems that the other person just does not understand, and sometimes I wonder whether or not they are really reading what you are saying. Sometimes I think they are so focused on trying to type as many responses as possible, because they think that is how to earn on here, that they lose sight of the fact that we are supposed to be discussing things. Have you encountered a similar situation either here or elsewhere? How do you handle it?

You think it is impossible?

the word impossible is not in my dictionary. Come to think of it I only have a few words in my vocabulary

I had a feeling I should have discussed it with my doctor. The movie Knowing made me think of doing that when the character said, "No, he's not deaf, sounds just get jumbled sometimes." And I had tinnitus (ringing in the ears) for years, but never had a problem. It just gets bothersome in really quiet environments when the ringing gets to be the loudest. I made a note in my books to ask about that - thank you for reminding me again.

That really is a difficult situation to be in. My mom is legally deaf, but now she can hear with the new hearing aids. They will even reduce the background noise for her, so that she can differentiate the sounds better. Even so, she still has trouble in crowded places, especially when there is a lot of background noise and many people talking, such as in a restaurant. I have automatically learned to speak slower and enunciate better, because otherwise I would never have been able to have a conversation with her. It is sad that everybody will not do the same. My hearing is fine, but I have a friend that tends to mumble a lot. His wife does not listen to him, so he has become accustomed to just mumbling to himself. Whenever we are talking, though, I will tell him that he is mumbling and he should speak up and share what he is saying with me, too. He likes the fact that I call him on this, because he doesn't realize that he is doing it and apparently many people will not tell him but also do not understand what he is saying.

I see there is a third reason why people sometimes zones out or looks like they are zoning out. The ringing in the ears could really be very annoying. A victim of chance, ingrained in personality and now a medical condition. I'm learning as I go through each and every box

selective amnesia that sounds like my roomie Kathy. she tells me to wake her when I go down to eat. so I stand over her and yell, kathy time to go down to eat. She goes yeah yeah Im not going. So when I come back up after lunch, she is angry. You did not tell me y ou were going downstairs. I am going whats wrong with her? I did tell her and she said she did not want togo. I remind her and she goes, did I say that,I was asleep. I repeat you told me you did not want to go. the woman sleeps all day then cannot sleep at night, and she wonders why?

LOL! I like that! If I were you, I am not sure whether or not I would have been angry that he was not responding to what I was saying, but at least you knew that he was definitely listening and understanding, which is a lot better than I can say for some. We used to say that my dad had "selective hearing", too, but it turns out he had a valid excuse as he really did have hearing loss. Of course, back then I don't think it was as bad as it is now, and it was probably more of the "selective" than the actual hearing loss.

Selective hearing I like that I wonder what's worst between selective hearing and "false selective amnesia"

I forgot to where did the other person post it but I'm pretty sure that you both have the identical discussion. I understand what you're going through purplealabaster. The idea was the same hexeduser22. I was just checking out and I found two identical discussions.

I haven't seen a copy of this discussion yet I hope they really have not plagiarized this good discussion

Did somebody really copy my discussion or were you saying that to grab my attention just like I got yours? You now have my full attention. So, did someone really copy my discussion, because unfortunately this really has happened before. I do try to capture people's attention not only with my title but also with my discussion. I did not create this discussion just to get a bunch of responses, although obviously we all like to get responses to our discussions. I was just frustrated with people on-line and off-line that ask you a question and say they want your help but then do not listen to what you have to say. Sometimes I just feel like blurting out outrageous things to see whether or not they are really paying attention ... sometimes I even do it!

LOL! I think that you do have a point, Letran. The title of the discussion might not necessarily be a lie but more of an incentive or a goal, especially if I manage to keep responding to all the comments that I have gotten already on this discussion. I do not think it is a violation, however, because I was not really discussing earnings here. I guess that we will find out sooner or later, though.

Yes you are a screw and PA is the screw driver What am I saying?

Am I missing something here?? Screw?? Screwdriver??? What's going on????

My topic is not complete? Now I have to figure out how to invest that large sum of money? Forget it, that is too much work. I guess that I will just give all that money back and continue on with what I have been doing up until now. Besides, that bill left suspicious marks on my hands ... I do not think the ink was dry on it yet!

I guess that $10 bill got a disclaimer on the side too. "This bill is not for public use"

So you admit that you draw a bill with $10 and you wrote on it "from myLot"

Wickedspies - I do not think that it is against the guidelines as I was not really posting about myLot earnings, although I could be wrong about that. I do hope that it does not get deleted by accident, especially since GoAskAlice has stated many times that the discussions get read and reviewed before being deleted. LOL! I like how you say that you will be rude back and even respond for them! I have done that a few times myself, and sometimes that does work to get their attention. MysD - I think you need to speak up, because I didn't hear you ...