'I AGREE' answers are driving me nuts! What about you?

These suggestions are great. But how we make all of our posts 50 to 100 in responses? That would mean pushing it for sure on a lot of the posts. But this is a Good succestion on making a limit more on what is accepted. I know even on some that reply to all of their posts to keep them going as well should spend more time going over them as well, and not just always answer Thanks for Posting.

I think that sometimes answers can be short and still good, but in the case of just saying that you agree and adding nothing, it's a bit ridiculous. However, I heard that you still get more money for posting longer responses. It's not entirely based on points.

Oh yes, I'm frustrated by it. Especially because I try and post topics that provide chances for actual discussion and lengthy responses, and it bugs me when people just say 'I AGREE!' when they probably didn't even read the post. I'm so tempted to post a subject line that's a yes or no question, and then write up an actual discussion that has little to do with the title and see what the responses are. They've made steps in that short answers aren't given any earnings, but I think if they actually placed a minimum limit it would go much better. In short, I agree! ;)

If you are going to start out with "I agree", you'd better tell me why you agree and may what you think differently about. I like the idea of a word minimum. I am very wordy anyway and wouldn't have any problem making it. The only thing I can think of, is to keep giving them negative ratings.

I'm new here so I don't have a lot of experience with this. I did start a discussion that pulled in a good number of replies and being the type of person I am I wanted to reply to all of them. Turns out a good number of them were either one liners or fairly irrelevant like: "You are right, but you must give yourself to God". This of course had nothing to do with the actual topic. This bothered me because even if I don't reply to all of them I still have to read, or at least skim through a lot of junk. This isn't fair to someone who made a genuine effort to engage others in at least semi-intelligent conversation. You end up loosing time that could have been devoted to others with a similar interest. The problem seems to be that the people who do this believe they will gain something from it. Even if mylot does pay them for these short posts, they are not receiving much at all. So in the end it is quality not quantity that pulls in the big bucks. And, quality attracts people to your discussions, which means more talking i.e. more money. Those who do this type of thing simply have not, or are incapable of thinking it through all the way. Something we can do other than just reporting it the proper channels is to make more discussions like this one. Then others who might agree with us but had not thought about it yet will be pulled in. They will also say something and something will be done about it. We just have to keep are heads out of all the crap and not get to irritated by it. And, continue to practice what we encourage others to do.

i totally agree its like pplre just responding to the topics with a one line answer to just earn points for their accounts. Me on the other, hand, I like to actually consider what I write before I write it.

A minimum word count may be a solution but the best way to deal with them is use the ! button and complain. If enough people do that myLot will get fed up and penalise them.

I have seen it alot too, and I think mylot is trying not to pay for those type of short responses. I know that I answered a topic with one sentence the other day, that was all that was called for, there was nothing else to say, but I didn't get paid for it. And yes, mylot is a great community, but there will always be people who try to take advantage of the system and try to drag down the community, it's like that everywhere.

I think that a minmum word amount for responses would be one thing that the administration could do to combat these "users" for want of a better word. I also think that Mylot needs to monitor carefully the people they allow into this community. I have seen so many responses/discussions that arent in English (granted they do get deleted) but these users often write responses such as "thanks for good topic. god bless" or one I hate even more so than that "dsfig" yeah ok buddy, we rate, we repost but it seems to get us nowhere, perhaps Mylot needs to look into the idea of having forum "moderators" that have the ability to delete useless responses like this and ban certain users. Just my opinion.

I would hate to be forced to write a 50 to 100 word minimum responce to any type of discussion. While I concur (there! I didn't say "it"!) with you that nonrelevant comments degrade the quality of discussions, I sometimes don't want to wax eloquently about a discussion topic. Mylot has published new guidelines outlining payment heirarchy in regard to nonsencical comments: blather gets zero; coherance gets better pay; top writers get best pay. I say let the guidelines pace you as you desire.

It was a lot worse not to long ago and mylot has done some clean up on the forum and in time I believe it will get where it needs to be. For now don't let it annoy you. I am finding most people under 500 post this same question or one simular to it and I have to laugh. winks it'll get better

Well here is an I don't agree answer. The amount of money given for posts on mylot is too small to warrant long answers. 50 words is a significant amount, and to write this many words for the earning of 1 cent or so is clearly absurd. Maybe if mylot were to have a definate scale where they gave say 1 cent for every 20 words or so and the total words were counted instead of the total articles, one would not mind, but as it is there is no clear formula for earnings, but it is fair to say that the money is really not worth the effort as it stands at present.

i agree, lol just kidding but ya i think it's a great dea to have a place like this where people can express their knowledge and talk and share with others. but for some reason people have to come in and do stupid short answers that drive me nuts too. i know exactlly how you feel.

I'm new to this, and I completely agree! I'm so frustrated - I've been here for two days and really enjoyed being here at first. But then when my friend started a discussion that was very thought out and thought-provoking, someone responded with a one line answer that had absolutely nothing to do with that post except that it mentioned another movie - no comment on the movies he suggested at all. How absurd is that? Someone takes the time to write all of that and looks for responses in agreement or disagreement, and instead, someone mentions a completely different movie. I guess if I don't notice some sort of improvement, I'll leave the community. :(

The majority of members would agree with the principle of what you suggest, because we all know that Yes or No type of answers do nothing to enrich the conversation and merely constitute spamming in order to gain ratings. Fortunately the practice is declining and Mylot are gradually removing blatant abusers. I would not agree with a minimum number of words, because this may force members to add pointless embellishment to their responses in order to reach the target. A single sentence can sometimes be adequate if the comment is complete and pertinent to the topic.

I agree! ;) hahaha just kidding. That bugs me, too. I think if you don't have anything constructive to say regarding a topic, then you really shouldn't say anything at all. I think some people do it not realizing they're not getting paid by number of posts, but by quality of posts, and they wonder why they only made 1 or 2 cents that day when they made 50 posts and all the answers were "I agree" or yes and no responses.

The short replies like what you said are really terrible to bear.some detailed views may be in contrary to what we say are always welcome.i have liked many responces which were not to my agreement but i had to change my viewpoints due to effective posts.

I do agree there should be a minimum of 50 to 100 words for any type of discussion.As far as I know any smaller then two line dont bring you as much earing as if you were to type more lines.

I pretty much ignore those one or two word answers. It would be nice if someone at MyLot were able to track down who is putting down those short responses and warn/suspend them, but there are so many people on the internet community that it is virtually impossible. I'm pretty new at this, so I'm just going to go under the assumption that people with longer responses end up getting paid more. I'm not sure how the feedback mechanism works on here, since there appears to be some sort of +/- system (I wouldn't even know how to find my own if I tried.). If the one/two word responses bother you, I would definitely report them through the feedback. Mike

Hey, you are absolutely right, I agree....haha just kidding anyway... I have been here just for a while, not really long enough to understand the whole kind of thing in Mylot. But sometimes I do see a lot of people saying the same things without any supporting sentence or only with a few words after that....especailly saying I-agree-with-you stuff....haha