Number of responses vs number of comments?

This is not quite accurate. The number in brackets (your "User Rating") can be taken as, more or less, the number of discussions in which you have been involved. It increases by one for: 1) Every discussion you start which receives at least two responses OR a response and a comment. 2) For the FIRST response that you make in any discussion (but not for any subsequent responses you make) 3) For the FIRST comment you make to a response other than your own in another person's discussion (but not for any subsequent comments). There are occasions where it may increase by 2 for your participation in one discussion (if you respond to a discussion and also comment on someone else's response). What is important to understand, however, is that you earn for ALL of your participation, whether it increases your User Rating or not, depending on the quality.

Maybe I am wrong but I think this discussion falls under that don’t in the guidelines were it says at the second from the bottom. “Post anything that inaccurately explains the Mylot earnings algorithm. Our Mylot mathematicians have worked long and hard on our elaborate payment system and we wouldn’t want any of our users to make them feel inadequate by breaking their algorithm in minutes.” http://www.mylot.com/o/guidelines.aspx I understand however that people do want to have some idea of how things work so they can apply themselves to earning the largest amount of cash for the least amount of work. Now not everyone thinks that way, they just want to know what the best thing to do is. Rather than figuring out how earning gets looked after though maybe it would be better to focus on content and good topics? Just a thought here, I don’t mind someone telling me I am wrong in this. Rate me as poorest if this comment is out of line. Knowing how things work in the earning department is good to know but I think the best approach is to have united approach with Mylot community and make money together. Better questions for another discussion might be. 1) What kind of discussion would make the most money for the Mylot community? 2) How can I maximise my income here?

hio abhi the current system is fine with me as we still g et paid for all our comments and our responses anyway so the number in the brackets just shows how active we are in participating and does not affec t our earnings particularly.

You know I just participate and you will be fine. I mean here we just talk to others and make discussions. I hope that you have fun mylotting here and just participate with everyone else.