How many of you overstepped ,this, MyLot rule

Wow, I had no idea. I was just trying to be nice! True enough, I've only posted one discussion and am pretty new here...but I'm glad that you posted this discussion. I would have never known. I guess I just have to say thanks at the end of my original discussion to all that may reply to it. I don't really care about the earnings as much as getting peoples insights.

Hello Anniedup..... The guidelines state..."Do not thank everyone...." This, I believe means....do not just thank everyone. Just writting thank you is not a "quality" response. If you have more to say that would have relevence to the discussion, I believe it will count towards your earnings. Tom

I don't get it though. From my own observations I've noticed that you only get paid one time for each question you ask or respond to. If you ask a question you don't get $$ (let's call it a point for now to make it easier) until at least one person answers it. If 100 people answer your question and you thank those 100 people, you do not get 100 or 200 "points" for that question. You still only get 1 point. Same with answers. If you answer or add a comment to someone else's question you get that one point. If you wind up having a discussion in there and enter multiple answers/comments you still only get that one point. So there are many rumors going around about how much we get paid. I've been a member for about or over 7 months and this is what I have observed. I've done test answers and comments just to see what would happen and nothing has changed since then. If MyLot says no thanking people then rules are rules but I don't see what the problem is if you don't get money for it. Maybe it takes up server space. Maybe "thank you" isn't a strong enough key word for them to generate any money. Good luck. :)

When I saw the e-mail that was telling the mylotter not to thank people for posting I was very surprised. They even said she was doing great in other areas. I was thinking that in other words, she was doing poorly in this area because she was thanking people. What difference does it make to them? It is possible someone complained about thank yous a long time ago when Mylot.com first got started. I have seen people cut and past a simple thank you and after each person who posted, the thank you being exactly the same. Maybe someone who could could not cut and paste at that time was jealous because he or she thought it was too much work to go back and comment or thank each poster. Then they saw this person do it by cutting and pasting and that made them mad. They were probably thinking that the person was making money doing it. That is possible. On the other hand, a lot of people do not read the rules. They may think they are getting paid for thank yous and when they don't, Mylot may get a huge number e-mails from mylotters asking why their pay is so low even though they thank everyone and consider this a post. I usually respond or thank the poster unless they are jumping down my throat and even then many times I do. However, with that thank you, I also offer other words that are not necessarily a thank you but a comment. Maybe I am getting way with it because of that. There are times I just want to write a thank you. Maybe because I do not do the just thank you alone very often that I have not been called on the carpet. Another idea is this. Maybe this lady who received the e-mail not to write thank yous was reported by another mylotter. I have noticed some nasty mylotters who do nothing but say...don't you read the rules? They love to report people. However, Mylot needs to be more concerned with the people who really break the rules in a hurtful way. Like the guy who has on his profile that he likes to sell midgets on E-bay as pets and he claims to be a doctor. I reported him 3 times. Twice they said they would take care of it. They never did. The third time they never wrote back. So what do they do with their time? Chase after people who want to thank others.

Well I didn't knew about that but most of the time when I comment on the responses it about the their opinions.I think that commenting on the responses is a way of appreciating their responses.It is also a way to show that their responses are actually being read by me.Anyways you have done a good job in making us aware of this guideline by myLot.

WOW I didn't know that..I Don't see the problem with it though...if your not getting paid for it then I don't see a problem...now if they were paying for it then I would understand that would be taking advantage of the system. But I like to acknollage peoples opinion on my subjects...to me it not about getting paid it's like you said being courteous. You're showing that that persons opinion matters wrather it was helpfull or not.

I fully understand what you have in mind as me myself do think that to "Thanks" to those who responses to our discussions was kind of very possitive pratice and it should be encourage. My understanding to mylot guideline "Thank everyone that responds or comments on your discussion. This will not increase your earnings."was that they try to tell us that to thanks everyone who responses to our discussion will not make us any earnings and its nothing wrong to doing so if we like to.I do enjoy to read on all the comments I get whenever I start a new discussions and I will thanks them for their efforts in return. I think that's the right way to express our appreciations.I do agreed with you that interactions was the top priority for any discussions....without proper interactions do they still call "discussions"?

I thought this too but it seems what they meant was not just say " thank you" and write a bit more than that . My Lot do want us to respond to our responses and this way people will come back and add to that and get discussions going , I like to answer all of mine too and I think its nice to read and rate them all too , I haven't been able to for a few days and I was feeling quite bad about it . I do think that our earnings reflect the fact that we answer our responses too , I hope that made sense to you lol xx

MyLot is a discussion forum therefore responding to fellow myLotters for their participation in your discussion is a common courtesy, many times I have carried on conversations through the response process. Your friend was wrong, it clearly states in myLot policy to thank everyone that responds, sure it takes time but it is well worth the response always given by your friends you make. I look forward to people responding to my comments and after refer back to discussions I have replied to that interest me. Otherwise, this would be a message board if we could not respond.

If I can think of something other than 'thank you' to add, I will. But if all I have to say is thanks, then I don't. Every mylot user should read the guidelines and KNOW that even if a poster doesn't thank you, they appreciate the response, and in their own way ARE thanking you, by rating your responses.

i used thank every one who responded to my discussions but as my friends list grew bigger i couldnt do it,so now ill put a comment or say thanx to some of them.but never knew were not suppost to as ive seen it all over the place.

I did not know that you should not thank everyone for their responses.I do respond toe ach one who responded to my discussion.It is my way of saying thank you whether or not I say it in words.I also rate every response as positive as a thank you note to everyone but they will not know that I rated them positive.I guess they have that rule so that mylor webpages don't get too crowded with thank you notes.Anywa,I guess we could re-phrase it and add a few more comments to it which makes it not just a thank you note but also a comment.

So have we decided that I am ok if I thank people for their response in a form of more than just the words 'thank you'; not necessary for every response, perhaps just a general thank you after a few comments; and generally people prefer some reply to their comments? I find it contrary to the atmosphere in MyLot when some members just submit new discussions and never respond to any replies in any of them. Thanks for discussing the rules it helps me to sort them out in my mind rather than just reading a list.

in case you haven't noticed, it's also a no-no to post a topic to make reference to another one ;) or to anser a topic without having read all the other answers (like I'm doing right now) what can I say, if you're supposed to earn by talking you cannot expect much more quality in your conversation, it's the same old rule quantity vs quality

In my discussions I will comment only on certain responses to try to get additional responses and keep the discussion going. I will not thank any one tho, I will leave my opnion on a response to get others to respond to it more.

My thought on this is perhaps myLot doesn't want us to merely say thanks without any comment on the response. The response itself will earn something and if one is courteous to say thank you then I do not view that in opposition to the DON'T. I like to say thank you for responding especially if they had something that added to the discussion. Perhaps I am wrong, but I can't see why we should be penalised in our star rating either.

Its sometimes really impossible to respond to all the answers like a discussion with 140 responses will boggle you up. how can you answer all of them if you are online only for few hours. WHat I do is I choose if aomeone has really made a point there, I respond to that and others I simply rate. sometimes its actually impossible to answer everyone. Its better if we also do not expect that our all responses will be answered. Now abotu the rule, many times before they made it a rule people used to answer all the responses by just one thanks , it made their post stand out and among the top discussions too hence they recieved more responses, my lot has decided then that no more thanking, if you are not going to discuss an issue in the thread and I think they are right too.

Well I overlooked this one rule also and even if i wanna thank those who responded and helped me in my discussion, i didnt repeat it again because rules are rules.

Yes, what you say is true! We all want to know that behind this monitor here is a real person who reads what you say! It's perfectly normal to feel this way! This world ( myLot, it should be ourLot ) becomes our world now! Without us they are nothing, they wouldn't exist anymore! So i thing they should make some kind of new rules, rules that are proposed and voted by us and not by them! It's true they pay us, but this community, myLot community had already passed this point, of having just the " I want money" people! I used some others paid forums, but i quit because there you were paid by quantity and not by quality! And all the topics were full of nonsense comments! oh god, first i say rules are bad, then i bring a solid argument in their favor! So your are wright and in the same time you are not! We must have rules because otherwise we are doomed!

I think the idea of interaction to continue the discussion is one thing that Mylot definitely encourages. However, having said that, just thanking the other person for posting means that you are not necessarily prolonging the discussion and that some people do it just to increase their earnings. My suggestion to you would be to indeed thank the other poster, but also offer your opinion to them as well on what they had posted to you. That is a true way of continuing the discussion anyway.