Mylot Quality

We can determine the quality of our posts. As long as we stick to the Guidelines set by Mylot, then we can have a quality post. Post from the heart , not as if you are a robot, mechanically answering the question, to make it of quality. What you are saying should make sense according to what is being discussed.

Hello there... Please don't mix up with disagreements & quality... Someone might not agree with your opinions, but at the same time that someone will admit that your post is full of quality, based on experience & study. Quality of a post depends on study of the matter at hand, experience if there's any, a neutral view which will enable the writer to see both sides of the coin and most importantly interest in the matter at hand... Just my thoughts...

"Quality" can mean many different things in different contexts. In general, it refers to something meeting certain standards which may or may not be well defined. In the context of MyLot, we have two things which add up to 'quality of participation' and each can be looked at separately, though they are really two sides of the same coin. There are 'started discussions' - by which I mean the presentation of a topic in order to start a discussion. There are also 'responses' and 'comments', which, of course, are an integral part of a discussion and without which no discussion could actually exist. The definition of 'quality' is slightly different in the two situations because of the slightly different function of each. A good quality discussion topic should do the following things successfully: - It should be descriptive enough to clearly outline what is to be discussed and it should contain sufficient information on the topic so that a reasonable opinion can be formed without too much extra research. - It should actively encourage (by the way it is presented) original, relevant, descriptive and intelligible responses and it should not be possible to give a satisfactory or complete response in just one or two words. If you study the "Don'ts" in the Guidelines, you will see that nearly all of the things we are asked not to do would lead to discussions to which no very useful or constructive responses could be made. A good quality response or comment should be, as described above, original, relevant, descriptive and intelligible. It may express an opinion which is not that of other people in the discussion (and, indeed, discussions tend to thrive on differences of opinion) but it should, ideally, be reasonably respectful of others' opinions. A discussion, as a whole, does not truly become a discussion until the 'discussion owner' (the person who started the topic) replies to the responders with good quality comments which materially add to the discussion and even encourage further comments. It is noticeable that some of the best discussions may continue a 'thread' (a response followed by one or more comments) with many comments back and forth between two or more people. In summary, then, quality means being descriptive (without being unnecessarily 'wordy') and intelligible, relevant and original. If opinions are given, they ought really to include some kind of reason for the person's stance because it is easier to discuss reasons (and to continue a discussion) than just a flat statement of opinion. The person who starts a discussion, therefore, has a responsibility to himself or herself and to those who respond to be able to continue the discussion. Those discussions which start with an interesting topic and receive a number of good quality responses but which are never replied to by the person who started the topic are not 'good quality discussions' (even though they have all the potential of becoming so) because they are never encouraged to continue. When posting either a topic for discussion or a response or a comment, always think about what kind of reply you would expect someone to make to it. If it doesn't encourage or leave the way open for a quality reply, then it is probably not of sufficient quality itself.

hi girl_thinking Its we the mylotters who decided the quality of a post we all rate each other's post here which help mylot to decide the quality of the post our post quality can't be determine by one person i guess From the FAQ's http://www.mylot.com/o/faq/faq17.aspx [i]myLot members should rate discussions, responses, comments, and photos based upon quality and usefulness. We are very excited about the DRS and encourage everyone to use it. The DRS is factored into our proprietary earnings algorithm, so this will help us properly reward valuable contributions to the myLot community.[/i]

I got you girlthinking , that's why if you will notice I seldom post a discussion, I don't want to post a discussion that I already know the answer, I want to post something that I could be learn from the responses as well.

Very good question.. Many people are here only for money.. they only like what their friends say & ignore much better responses. I guess myLot administrator should introduce a new feature, where only top leaders from any interest leader-boards will be assigned the job of marking best responses from disqus' in their area of interest.. They will be called captains or group leaders as long as they stay on top of leader-board & will be replaced by new leaders from time to time. This way mylotting will be more competitive & interesting & most importantly.. fair..

and those where the grammars can truly be painful to read are not included. i would like to agree with you that this can be subjective. some topics can only appeal to some, some may even be boring to some.

Personally I think its how long your discussions are as far as sentences written and how many responses given. I try to start discussions that will get alot of responses. I hope this helps good day.

Apart from speaking rules and regulation here on mylot, each person should know what are the elements of good quality of post. I can know and see by reading that a post had fulfilled the qualification of good writing. I can see whether the discussion resemble good quality or not with the way you're writing and building the post. There are rules standard that are recognized by other people and I am sure the admin know really what a good post is looking like.

I completely understand what your saying. And I don't know how to classify things as of quality when to each their own basically. Your correct that many people some thing is quality work and someone else might think it is garbage. I just do the best I can with each response I make. I try very hard as long as it makes sense to me what someone has written to write back something worthy (according to my own standards). Everyone has their own standards I suppose. I think in general we should make more than a one liner response and make sure it makes sense...

I think that ones that qualify the quality of the response and discussion and I think if the response have logic and defend a way of think is a response with quality, it doesn't matter if responder have different way to see the life, if it have logic is quality.

In the FAQ section it has been clarified what kind of content is unacceptable. Other than that every type of content is a quality content. It is true that different people have different perspectives regarding the same discussion, but then no one has to judge who is right and who is not. Mylot is a platform where you can put up your discussions, raise your opinions, look at the things from other people's point of view and learn new things. I am finding this discussion really interesting and looking forward to the responses on this discussion.

I agree totally but I believe they don't test our quality rather than our length! A reply could possibly be paid a couple of cents to have 500+ characters, or maybe more because of more lines of text. I don't understand how they would achieve such a super system here on myLot but short quality responses are probably considered to be small earnings, unless a lot of people positively rate it and it receives a best response label!

Girl_thinking always thinking about different things in an open mind . LOL~~~ Long time no see my friend ,and about what you want to know ,I think there are no best methods there but have a reasonable way . Maybe your discussion can do them a favor and promote them improve their ways .