Me "our responses do not pay you" we type,we get paid,you type you get paid"

Hello Sweet Hatley! Having come back from Arkansas I have 1600 email alerts. I have slowly been going through my notifiers and noticed one particular member in the 2 1/2 weeks I was gone started 172 discussion. Oh my as I started to open an couple of the earlier ones I noticed absolutely no responses what so ever from the discussion starter. I wonder if the members got frustrated because they too slowly stopped responding. Though I am sure the discussion starter earned something for starting so many certainly a great deal of effort wasted for not responding to them. Sad because when this member started I guided appropriately and told the member that commenting was very necessary since the member was very concerned about earnings. I guess the member still did not believe me and has wasted a lot of efforts. I did not respond to the discussions because I noticed they were very straight forward questions which were already answered. I can't keep up with members of this sort and though I have done my most effort to help sometimes they just do not listen because they are earning a tiny, tiny bit for starting. Imagine if they actually listened. lol Since earning is a concern the member will not give up but since all the effort is being put forth in starting discussion at some point the member will feel like a great deal of effort for so little. I say that they get a tiny something because they are actually typing for starting them. So as I always so to those that they will earn next to nothing because having commented they would have earned a great deal for all the commenting/typing.

Sad to say, I have started deleting people from my list that only start discussions, especially when it is eight or ten or more a day. Usually they are not discussions, and I cannot relate to them, and they come across as being just a rehash of something they read on the internet. On the other hand I have seen some very good responses from some new people that gives me a lot of hope for good discussions coming up.

I absolutely agree, and I've turned off a few people who start a lot of discussions, and while they respond to their OWN discussions, they never respond to MINE!

ive seen old members do that too. they start tons of discussion and never get back to you. then after a hile they will start whining that they did not reach the payout. i can not understand but i dont complain. i myself try to help newbies like they can not start a discussion with one line question only, still they do it. i teach newbie that you need to have quality post and atleast 4 to 5 lines for it to be an earning still they will not listen. i dont know if they just ignore or they dont comprehend. mylot is a great site, you truly earn here, but you will earn if you work hard. it is like any other work... you work hard you earn. hope this discussion of yours be another eye opener of mylot members who wanted to earn but does not like to get the part of hard working. have a great weekend hatley.. hugs

You know,I can see your point here. Fact is,most of us can't be on mylot all the time and in my case, if mylot doesn't send me YOUR response, I don't go look for it. It's a simple time factor for most of us. I love mylot. You have become one of my best friends,,,even on such a personal level that I send you other things... Now, I would love to discuss and respond, discuss and respond, but I can't always. Yes, quality is better than quantity. That is one of the reasons I try to answer fully. I do get a lot of "oks !", or, "thanks "..........now are these really discussions? Not on your life they are not but it's a penny or two , right? I still am not sure how mylot actually pays... I have friends I talk to on a daily basis in my regular email. I make nothing from those conversations, but trust and friendship. Now, IF and I mean, IF mylot sends your response to this one,TO ME, I will answer it as fully as I can. There are times when I don't get the responses back.........and I read a lot of members complaining on this as well as I do. Mylot must not be able to keep up......I think mylot is great and just last week when I had a bad mail, I was able to turn that person in and even got to talk to Alice for the first time. I am not against a full fledged conversation where all of us, adults, I would hope..., do talk out a matter and come to a conclusion that is best for all concerned. I truly care for you and if I don't answer your response, PLEASE consider the fact I did not get it thru mylot.... And, on a brighter note, you can always contact me on my regular email. Have a great night........I'm up only cuz I dropped my cell phone in my dog's water:( ...............dah????? I hope I haven't ruined it ......... But, it's plugged into a charger and it is working so far.... I luv ya and hope you will continue all you wonderful discussions and I actually get them.... hugs, quita[b][/b]

Hello Mrs Hatley, I agree with your point its always quality that matters in the end. It is the basic of this site that you earn for you type and i earn for i type.There are many people who starts discussion and sit back to see the responses but they forget that they don't earn for it they earn when they comment back for those responses. I know the fact that it takes lot of time to comment back so i don't start much of the discussions rather like to respond to other's discussions. This happens as it happens with me too that we start discussion and stuck sometime in some offline work and could not continue the discussion at that time but i never forget to comment back as it can be delayed.

Thank you very much for the information. You have reminded us of how to participate on mylot. We do not just start a lot of discussions and leave but we have to come back a comment on the responses we have received. Hopefully new users to mylot would realise this soon and make life easier for other members.

They are probably a newer layer of idiots that didn't read the FAQs. I think quantity is where its at too, Hatley. I think we should have about 10,000 people on here and they all know what they are do and discuss back and forth and post ofcourse. We could reach payout each month.

Yes you are perfectly right to say. Quality of the discussion is important. I do have friends in mylot that they start a discussion without any good topic and they start a lot of discusion forcing people to skip discussion.

That's very nice reminder, my friend. Indeed, those who are active and like to comment back on the responses that they get always earn the best, too. Since now i have more time to be in Mylot, i have even started to comment back to some of my very old discussions, 3 years ago. I just hope the person who will receive my "BR" will still be active in here. After all, i like members who are active giving responses rather then active making many discussions without giving any comment. In fact, i had been giving responses to a few members discussions, who seems no interest to give comment back at all...

When I read a discussion, I then read what other people wrote before me if any. I rate them as I read not only the person starting the discussion but all the people that replied. I am really not here for the money I just enjoy reading and seeing what others wrote. I then reply with my answers of what I think. I have a husband that gets up at 4:00am even weekends. he will fall asleep in his recliner by 9:00 am. He wakes to get his lunch, comes back to his recliner and falls asleep. I get u p and make dinner he wakes up and watches some tv before dinner. We have dinner he watches the politcal channel and is in bed by 8pm. I however get up later because of medications I am on but once I am up I am up til I go back to bed to sleep which is usually around 11pm to 1AM. So trust me I value mylot to discuss and respond to. He is absolutely NO COMPANY to me. I do everything by myself. He however expects everything to be done and has admitted he is a extremely lazy person. so discussions and responses are my interaction with others unless I just go sit out at the bay, or just go window browsing.

Thabk you Ms. Hatley for bringing this up. There is a particular lotter that I know who starts up multiple discussions and never, even once, had replied back. It has now been annoying every time I see him/her start another topic. Sometimes this lotter would start a new topic so I would like to respond. Yet once more s/he wouldn't comment back. I hope s/he realizes that earning in this site requires us to discuss rather than just start a discussion. Pardon for my rumbling. It just seems like the perfect topic to air this out.hahaha!

Hi Hatley, how are you? Thanks to your discussion which is the reality here in mylot. The real essence is participating, commenting, discussing back and forth are the key word to earn here, same as mentioned in the title of this discussion.

Even though I have been here on mylot for quite some times,but I am still at sea.So far I have started fewer discussions but commented almost every responses,I think It is demanded by etiquette.Most of what I have typed are responses,usually I don't add comments to the responses of mylotters who started discussion,Because its posting quantity isn't calculated.I am not sure if it makes sense.

Woohoo! Hatley, my dear, you just made it so EASY for newbies to understand how MyLot works! Now everybody will be out there (I hope!) responding to each others discussions, instead of starting numerous meaningless subjects. Perhaps we'll start to see discussions like we used to have here back in 2006 and 2007, really intelligent, thought-provoking discussions. Lately, there hasn't been much that grabs me--perhaps I'm burned out on discussions that ask nothing more than a yes or no answer, rather than a "yes or no, and why did you choose that?"-type discussions. Makes life MUCH more interesting when you have to USE your brain!

I totally agree! I get so tired of the ones that post tons of "discussions" we respond to them and no one or just a couple of people get a counter response. This does not a discussion make people! Hatley you are absolutely right the person posting the discussion does not get money for our responses. However they get more for good threads which means they must enter act with counter responses to ours. I understand that they wish to make as much money as they can, really I do. The thing is they can not make money doing it the way they are like you said. If they do not interact with the ones that post on their discussions then no one gets to know them and they don't have as many people that will just post a responses because they know and like them. They will just have the responses they get, not many and people get tired of not getting a reply when we take the time to give them a good response and they do not acknowledge us at all.

I agree Hatley, it's courtesy to respond. I have a friend who never responds to my comments. I think I'll stop bothering.

Hi ya Hatters I couldn't have put it better myself. It is a pain that someone seems to have started such a rumour and I mylself get fed up with newbies starting endless ammount of nonesense discussions that make little sense!!!!

Hello Hatley. I never knew it worked that way. Thanx for reminding me though. I definitely agree with quality though.

HI Hatley, I am a new user of my lot.It has been a month I have started discussions in various topics.I am receiving very few responses.I am also responsing in different discussion.You could hardly believe that I am unabale to make 1 dollar for a month.Some used to say my writting skill is not so bad.I dont know what to do or how I can improve myself.Could you suggest me some tips?