Mylot should Welcome the New members with some Bonus.....What do you think?

I completely disagree. It would be simply pandering to greed and, as others have said, would merely encourage people to join primarily 'for the money' (as enough people already do). I always regard those sites which offer a 'sign-up incentive' with suspicion: they have money to throw away, already? It doesn't, in fact, become 'real' money until one has earned, usually, ten times as much ... in other words, it is not a real incentive at all. It just means that what everyone really earns on the site has been reduced by the amount used to attract new members. MyLot already has a number of sensible restrictions on newcomers and it might be better still if people had to make a certain number of responses to discussions before being allowed to post a discussion of their own. People who come here with the main impression that MyLot is a good place to earn an easy buck generally have a very hazy idea about what 'discussion' and 'participation' and 'quality' mean. I'm glad to say that many of them DO learn eventually but, unfortunately, some come here still and insist that MyLot should be something which it is not.

Hai friend, Many here have objected against you view, They have their own reason. But In my view its good, Giving bonuses will surely encourage the users to be active. if Mylot give a small amount as initial bonus,then that bonous will be a driving source for the user to participate in mylot activities and reach payout. And Mylot loss nothing if the user discard, simply because, mylot pays the money only when user reaches 10$. Ihave seen many user in mylot who just joins and then never lookback, if there was an initial bonus, that bonous amount will attract the user to be active in mylot. So its a good Idea in my view.

Why should we entice them here by offering a bonus and give them the impression that they can come here and get easy. quick money for doing nothing? We don't need a whole lot of new users who are not going to add anything to the pages of myLot therefore, in my opinion, offering them a bonus is worthless and the wrong way to go about promoting myLot.

Hello, Ramaswamyvtkv. I'm afraid I don't agree with you. MyLot already gets its share of people who are in it for the money rather than the discussions, and offering a joining bonus would only make things worse.

hmmm... not really a good idea. there'd be a huge influx of people joining just for the bonus.

I think having bonus for the new members had a nice idea especially if we wanto refer our friends and we encourage to join them at my lot.Though earning money here really takes time effort and determination but i don't think people here just want to earn money.I think they had just enjoyed responding to other people and earning at the same time.It's not really hard to earn money if we are just happy on what we are doing.

hi lost my response so copying to clipboard no no bonuses simply because if they did that then they would c hange other things until it wou ld not be the unique mylot but just a c opy of every other site. no no bonuses just the honest true mylot where we get paid when we do quality posts and where we cam make friends from all over the world.I really think that for so many of us the charm of mylot is its uniqueness and its homesty. We get paid for posting quality posts that further our discussions. WE are u nlike other sites and thats the beauty of it. I think if people join because they want to make discussions they will soon get the feeling of enjoying being here. and thats a great bonus too.

After reading this discussion, I am surprised that quite all responders are against this bonus. Personally, I think that a true gift is a good incentive to join a site. I can give an example : I joined Microworkers at opening in June 2009. The site was offering $2, but this money was only available to set up a new task, and you needed at least $3 for a new task. I don't invest in a site when I join, I thought it was a scam and I forgot it. In 2010, I read in a forum that the $2 to sign up were transfered in the main balance. I am organized and I keep all my user names and password when I sign up. I logged in again and found effectively $2 in my main balance : I gave the site a chance, and I am still an active member. The main problem at myLot is that a new member has a 0 reputation rating when he joins : with a 0 star you earn 0 at myLot, and the beginning is difficult until a new member gets some positive ratings and a star. A $1 bonus in the main balance would be a fair compensation for a new member. Anyways, only people really interesting by myLot would stay active, and we know that 90% of new members are no more active after a month. But maybe more would stuck with a small incentive ? I follow you on this point.

Great idea but I don't think that would be fair with the company or site owner and it would only make mylot vulnerable to some scammers. Why are we here for? I admit almost all of us, needs online jobs and extra income and i really think that we should work hard to earn...

Hello Ramaswamyvtkv, I think the sites that give such bonuses don't have too many people interested in joining them. MyLot is not this type. If somebody wants to join, they don't do this for the bonus but for the quality of the site. I think it is fair enough: if you want to earn, you must work. Don't forget that there is also the oposite of what you proposed: there are sites that have a fee for joining.

Hello my friend actually and if the new comer here realize and found the bonus here they will enjoy - what I must to point out? Bonus or Rewards for simple task like use openly everyday the "search engine" seldomly mylot giving a rewards very open. There are many things to do, go to task and make small requirements then you get rewards to be added to your earning.. But upon sign up mylot have already share to us what opportunity they have, just particiapating and commenting such topic you earn... that is the uniqueness of mylot...

That would be nice hmmmn, really nice!!

Hi Ramaswamyji before replying to your discussion i want to know did you join MYLOT with getting bonus in the start???.. even i also did not.then why we advocate giving bonus to the new members. I think this should not be done because i have many referrals which are inactive today remember if they would have got $1 too they could not have got it because minimum payout is $10. Then whats the use of these members when they hardely get involved in the activities.We should not only think of increasing members on MYLOT but we should have the members who could contribute to MYLOT.You can make people join in MYLOT by giving them the lust of $1 but you cannot make them active.

I agree to you post ramaswamyvtkv. They should have bonus rewards or incentives for new mylot users like me...It may encourage more online paying site users to use mylot. That a good idea!!!

Personally I would not think this would do much for encouragement as from what I can tell, either a person will want to do what it takes to be active in here, or they will not. I often think that it is really up to the New people coming in here to take the time to want to be active in here and want to be active here. Since you need to have $10 to cash out in here, what good would $1 be for the New people unless they are going to stay active to reach payout, except for take away from the money they would be paying the active people here instead. Maybe if they offered an incentive more when you do reach payout might be a better thing instead? But only if you have been active.

I think that if the site started doing this alot of the members that have been here for years would bolt, delete their accounts and re-start their account to get the bonus. It would be unfair to the ones who have been die hard members for so long. I for one wouldn't like it.

Yeah, that is a great incentive for newcomers to this website. But we as senior mylotters might get jealous, if they have bonus for it. Why not we have bonus too, since we are so loyal to it, and we been here for so long. We might also ask for a bigger bonus.

Haha! Why, of course I totally agree with your suggestion. I don't have much referrals here and I don't really expect more to come in, but it's always nice to receive extra bonus when registering to a new site. I'd love for new members to receive that.

I do not think so. Here is a site which rewards you for your efforts. Getting a bonus for bringing a friend into myLot is rewarding the effort. Signing up is no big deal. So why the sign-up bonus?