How NOT to make money.

Happens a lot. I have to wonder if they even read the response at all. I do try to always respond with the hopes the member understands and becomes successful. Sometimes it happens and sometimes it just doesn't happen. Shame as some discussions are quite interesting at times and they truly are missing out.

I know that a lot of times I try to get "the last word" in on a discussion I start. I don't always catch it, but last week when I complained that my responses were down, I had a lot of long discussions where we would go back and forth to see who could get the last word in. I earned a lot that day. There are times that I have no comment on what a person said and I don't think it is good to just say ok or something just as short. If I can't make at least a sentence or two, I usually don't say anything to a person. I usually say something unless there is nothing to say. I don't like it when I say something and don't hear anything back, at least if it was a substantial comment. If it was just something short, I don't expect an answer. But they should respond to at least some comments!

Well, obviously they did not read the guidelines so they don't know that it is important to check back and to respond to their discussions. Also it appears that they don't know the meaning of "discussion".

I think that they may have misunderstood how myLot works and thought that they could just post a discussion and start to rake in money. Unfortunately that is not the case and they end up quitting myLot because they aren't earning much, while by simply commenting in their discussions and being somewhat active in them can make a great difference.

I like the title of your post! I have always found this behavior frustrating, and I tend to not respond anymore to members who are not giving any comments : they can at least comment one or two boxes ! I have played the big bad wolf with some members, being hard and saying "now, come on, and give some comments to your responders !" and, except one girl who understood and is now commenting her discussions, I never saw another one going down of his "no money" tree. What happens is that they get soon a bad rating with this method, and disappear quickly from myLot, because they earn less and less with their behavior. Some are really making drudge works : I started a discussion Sunday, after I realized that some members were only rewriting successful discussions -- those who are getting more responses --. Their discussions are often deleted as duplicated, and they do not earn nothing, nor their responders. I am trapped every day in one or two of these discussions, when I have not seen the original. It is even more frustrating when you have given a long and detailed response. It is impossible to have any fun like this and I cannot understand these members.

Ahahaha! That's very true! I also participated in discussions like "How can I earn money online?", where there's a list of suggestions from other members but the asker didn't even respond to any of the comments. So, we're left wondering if that person really wants some suggestions or if he has already found the answer he's looking for. There are also some people who kept asking the same question (he may post it on another day or so) but won't even reply to the comments or suggestions to the 1st discussion he created. It's like, "Are you really interested or not?"

Thanks, lady! You stated this a lot more eloquently than I would have...and hate to admit it, I think sometimes my feelings get hurt...making that effort to give creedence to someone's discussion..and then be ignored! I didn't mean this to be about me..but that is the honest truth, so now...even those that are my friends here, that start discussions and don't reply...neither do I respond. Y'know you don't keep putting your fingers in the fire when you know you will get burnt! Take care...and Cheers!

If they post a lot, assuming the discussions don't get deleted, they will still earn, but they won't make too many friends or get too many visits to their discussions...

that is the very reason i worry when i cant get back to all my responses in time but many that have been here longer then me tell me its ok as long as i eventually do. ive seen this happen many times though with some and i just think maybe soon they will get back to it. so dont think im not going to respond. i might just be late. heck ive seen people respond to my response on theirs so long after that ive even forgotten posting on it.

I know what you mean marguicha. I haven’t been starting any new discussions lately because I have been short of time and, because I see the need to comment on my responses I would rather not start a post if I can’t make the effort to comment. I think it is common courtesy to respond and, as you say, nothing will be earned from the post if the poster doesn’t bother to participate in the discussion. Then they complain they’re not earning!

I find it somewhat irritating, but mostly I find it sad. These individuals not only lose on making money from their participation, but the lose the opportunity to make friends. And that's priceless.

How true that is. I think the problem is mainly that they want a "get rich quick" option. You know some little do hickey that is going to get them around the bs that everyone else is doing and get them more money with less work. They don't want to work for it. I see so many posts about how to earn money, but the person goes on to say "i don't have any money to invest in a business" or "i don't have a lot of time to invest in a business"...frankly you don't want to earn money if you can't invest at least your time (and a little cash if needed for domain names and such). All of the answers to their question require them to do some work. Which is not the response they want. I've all but stopped answering these questions. They really aren't worth the time. Happy Mylotting

It is really annoying to participate in this kind of discussion. I mean, you will give your effort in replying to their question and yet they will not bother to reply to it. You don't even know if they accept your suggestion or they just want to post those question thinking they could earn here in mylot by having many responses to their discussion (which is not the case). What is more irritating is that most of the posted discussion here are posted by this kind of mylotter. They post discussion and yet never even bother responding to any of its responds.( I consider is as a spam)

I am new to this so I have been reading through alot of this information and trying to do the best I can to learn and partisipate in these discussions.

i always try to response back to responses of others when i start a new post, a new discussion. and i feel sorry if i couldn't do it if i have other things do it which prevent me from getting online. i know how discussions are and how we could earn from our own discussion.

You said it already: it's their loss. If they can't be bothered to read the TOS, then not bother to respond to any comments they may get, they shouldn't be making money. Anywhere we go, anything we do, we have to learn the rules, decide whether or not we can live with those rules and decide from there whether to stay or leave. But, I think these people assume that anything written under their original discussion (which, by the way, are not at all original since that subject has been brought up too many times to count already) will make them money. Since they have not bothered reading the rules, I don't feel the least bit sorry for them. If I have commented to their discussion but they have not responded to my comment, it's no big deal to me. The wonderful thing about myLot is that there are so many really great discussions to move on to and that's exactly what I do. If this is someone who never responds to anyone's comments but continues to create new discussions, I would definitely make a note of his/her member name and make sure NOT to comment to any in the future.

hahaha , Intresting yes that,s the fact , but so many people participate too , I think we all scare of SCAM , so many people try to make money but maybe it,s to slow to earn , we stop at the middle and gone ( same like what i got now :(

Hi there ,friend. You have a very keen observation there, my dear. But, it is true. I also wonder a lot of times what happened to the poster. did he ever get an answer or not? I followed this kind of thread since I , myself is also curious to know the situation and how our friends here dealt with it and if they are indeed effected solutions. But sadly enough, sometimes, there's no other way to find out but read another similar discussion because the discussion I chose to read, did not progress in a manner that would benefit my situation.

Hi marguicha:; That's a nice name. It describes pretty well what they are doing when they don't actually answer their own questions. That's the reason why I only start a new discussion when I really want to know the answer and when I think it's a really interesting subject and of course, I value the answers of my friends so I usually chat with them. That's the way we can enjoy (and earn money at the same time) using mylot. ALVARO

I absolutely hate when anyone posts a discussion asks for replies and then is never to be heard from again.I have made it a point never to respond to anyones discussion if i see a long list of responses and yet not one word from the thread starter. I happen to have someone on my friends list who quite often posts one discussion after another and yet,there is not one single reply to any of this persons responses and this has been going on for quite sometime now.So, even though this person is a friend, i will not participate in any of his/her discussions.No one expects anyone to reply to all of their responders,but, to totally ignore everyone who takes the time to leave a commment,in my opinion is quite rude and pointless