An instrument to check the quality of a discussion.......... Huh..i dont believe
@LearnToEarnMoney (90)
India
February 4, 2013 6:09am CST
Somebody told me that the science is advance enough that sites like mylot and a few others have intruments to measure the quality of one's discussions. For me its a fake news as the quality can not be checked my an instrument. This is something we have to feel ad we have to realise about how good a discussion is.
It is just like you may find someone good looking and the other person does not find the same because of the feeling and the same thing is here. cience has mind but not heart and feeling comes from heart and not mind.
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@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
4 Feb 13
Welcome aboard!
MyLot is run by humans and not by bots and when they started this site years ago, they told us that we earn for our QUALITY participation here (as you will know if you read the FAQs and Guidelines). It is the admins who decide what is quality - and the admins are human. The one responsable for interactions with us and for most of the deletions can be found here:
http://www.mylot.com/GoAskAlice
If you care to take time to check through his activity then you will become aware of what is considered as quality here and what is not (and therefore removed).
Isn't phsycology also a science? 
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@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
4 Feb 13
The definition of a discussion is the exchange of views between two or more people.
When a user starts a topic and then never gets back to comment and further the topic with those who respond, it cannot even be considered as a discussion and the user who started it is not earning for it either. It is merely a question with some answers and that is not what myLot is for at all.
We only earn for our own efforts here and usually those who respond do so expecting to be able to come back and comment again to the comment that the starter of the topic adds. When that is not the case it can be disappointing...
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@marguicha (223720)
• Chile
5 Feb 13
You are right, Di. And what`s worse, when I remember the name of one of those mylotters that don`t comw back, I don`t answer their posts anymore. I will not talk to walls if possible
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@Mavic123456 (21893)
• Thailand
4 Feb 13
Yes, but who among us can exactly tell us what quality post is. This discussion might be a quality post to some but for others this is no sense at all.
Quality control are done manually having specific standards, size, shape, weight and all. I know someone who does the quality control of different items for international and local market distributions.
Yes, you are absolutely right a good looking for me could be a beast to someone. Or a good looking for me, could have rotten attitude inside.
@sweety_81 (2124)
• India
6 Feb 13
While, we have heard of use of "Artificial Intelligence" - devices with miniaturized computers, or robots programmed to use some of the components of human brain thinking. Yet, they can only have limited human type thinking capability. They cannot judge everything. So, an instrument made for judging the quality of one's posting would have many flaws.
@Mavic123456 (21893)
• Thailand
6 Feb 13
yes, most probably if mylot is using Robotics to evaluate the quality of posts, then it could be in the quantity not really the dept. there could be so many variables if to come up with the accurate robots to do such. Though there are many software now used to determine whether the texts are plagiarized.
@chiyosan (30183)
• Philippines
4 Feb 13
there are a ot of things science and tchnology can do but for sure we would know what quality is when it comes to discussions and articles because as you have said machines and programs can only do so much. Alot pf things must still be done by a perspn.
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@cupkitties (7421)
• United States
4 Feb 13
"feeling comes from heart and not mind"
Feelings or emotions are chemical reactions produced in the brain.
I've never heard any such science being used here to decide on our discussions quality. I can see where someone would think that, but they do use people and it's likely that they have rules to which have to abide by when it comes to making those decisions.
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@jenny1015 (13366)
• Philippines
4 Feb 13
I agree! While there could be machines and softwares to detect a lot of things, still knowing what is the quality of any discussion such as here at Mylot could only be done directly and decided by human intelligence.
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@tiffnkeat (1673)
• Singapore
4 Feb 13
I guess we could call them instruments - eye and brain amd hands to connect to the internet to open up the discussions.
Even throwing a coin (could we also call that an instrument) can decide if a discussion has enough quality?
Who's that somebody who told you? A scientist with a secret product to sell to the world? Is it proven? Is it cheap? Is it ...
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@sweety_81 (2124)
• India
4 Feb 13
One can create software algorithms with some rules to check the usage of good words, or may be grammatical correctness in the discussions or the responses given by different users. Yet, they cannot create such instruments- looks like someone is out there to sensationalize the things.
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@Lucky12 (767)
• United States
4 Feb 13
You really don't need an instrument ot check anything. the site is run by humans and some sites yeah they may use something like that, but I am sure mylot is using their own team of people to help them with that. Most things that people use check for other things like when you are writing articles and stuff like that. Here it is ran by humans and you are paid for quality participation. Good Luck and welcome to mylot as well.
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@IntrovertShy (2780)
• Marikina, Philippines
4 Feb 13
For me, it is not good to have an instrument use for checking quality discussion. It is because there are not perfect. Sometimes they don't detect a quality discussion. Human is intelligent than those instruments used by human to check quality discussion. So, its not good if they used it.
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@Nursefrai06 (2498)
• Penrith, Australia
5 Feb 13
But if these instruments did exist, where would they be basing their check for quality? On grammar errors? On the flattering words? On how long the responses are? Hmm. I dont think any of these are measurements for quality discussions. The instruments mentioned are not reliable.
