~What Exactly Do We Get Paid For?~

After people posting about getting paid for certain stuff, I've gone to mylot to get a straight answer a while back. And it is one of the few times they have responded. We don't get anything for best responses, or rating other people. But we sure help our friends out when we rate them. With so many people randomly clicking the negative options on people's posts, it is nice to have a person rate others fairly. We do get paid to post, but say we reply to a poster who left US a response? We don't get paid for answering them. We get paid for that discussion and the amount of people who respond, but not for our replies too them. Also, we don't get paid for every discussion we answer. This was explained to me in great detail when mylot first started lowering the rate of pay. They gauge if we get paid by the 'quality' of our response, as compared to other people who have also responded. Yeah, doesn't sound right, but...

We do not get paid to rate other users. That is just a courtesy thing, and lets myLot know this person has some value as a mylot member. (that's my interpretation). The more detailed your discussion starter or response is the better you get paid for it. It seems to pay more if you take time to put tags in too. I can't think of anything else right now.

Thanks for asking those questions, I think it will help other members to understand what exactly we get paid for. I also spent a lot of time on here yesterday and when I had first logged in I was at 0.16 and now today I am at 0.95 which I was also surprised and very happy about.
You give excellent responses as you have replied to a few of my discussions also. From what I understood before is that we get paid for quality responses and the longer the response the better the pay for it.
Good luck and have fun!
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We earn for starting discussions, adding responses as well as adding comments. Also we get paid for uploading photos to the discussions as well as in the interest groups. But we get paid a better amount when we have quality discussions and responses etc. More does not mean we get paid more but a good quality discussion does pay better than 2 sentence ones etc. Good luck. Have a great day/evening.
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I think we do get money for rating, but I am not sure. I noticed if I go and resolve a lot of unresolved, the next day my pay is higher than normal. I also like to rate positive all the posters in a thread I post in. I just noticed that there is a highest rated thread thing happening here and I participated in one and I noticed higher pay the following day then too. But it's good to get a big response to a topic you start, even if there is a hundred responses, at least thank each and every one of them because it will be worth it!

hey thanks for asking such good questions. I am new to this so this is really helpful for me.

I have been using Mylot for sometime don't let hte numbero f posts Fool you haha.. But I know you know we get paid for posting responses and Discussions and uploading simple pictures. I think we get paid for some comments towards Discussion as well. As for ratings I think so too, I heard one mylot user got paid close to a dollar by rating most of the time. So you can give it a shot and see what happend but Im not all that sure.. Well yeah take care and keep posting..^_^

We get paid for reading ads, basically, that's why mylot exists.

I do think that we get paid. I have given up on understanding how we are paid and how it is computed. But I do know that we get paid based also on the quality of our responses. If we get the best response, I guess we get paid higher than normal.

I think it is a bit of a mystery how MyLot actually works out what to pay each person, as I've seen it discussed many times without any real answer.

My understanding is that MyLot earns money from the advertising on the site. By posting discussions, responding, rating, posting photos etc, we both both attract and become targeted traffic to the site, and also increase search engine rankings. In return, MyLot shares with us some of the advertising money it has earned, in order to keep us returning and generating more money.

If I'm right, then even if we knew how the earnings were calculated, it would still be a different amount each day depending on the site's revenue for that day.

I'm only speculating here, so please don't quote me!