did we all get banned or what?

@dawnald (85135)
Shingle Springs, California
May 16, 2011 3:57pm CST
Seriously, it's been a while since I've seen so many quiet days in a row on myLot. One person I never thought would get banned has had her account deleted, others have left voluntarily, and it is just quiet quiet quiet on here. I know I've complained in the past about not being able to keep up, but this is ridiculous. Why are our friends leaving and/or just not posting? What can we do to make the site perk up again? What can myLot do? I've never seen it this slow. Never...
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@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
16 May 11
I am here I have connection problems though as I am in UK and using a mobile broadband connection and my credit is almost at zero. I was not posting because... well... now you are not going to believe this, and I was going to mention it later but... I just had my toenails painted in a PM! I am aware of some who have been banned and of others who are away for one reason or another and another thing too - it is Monday, the quietest night of the week
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 May 11
Toenails painted in a PM? Now that is a new one on me! It's not just today that's quiet, but last week, especially the end of the week too. It just feels like a graveyard!
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@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
16 May 11
I will leave the explanation of the toenails for later as there is a reason for them being done I have found a lot to participate in recently. I have had a bit more time over the week-end and I follow the 'recent' tab and it was moving fast.
• United States
16 May 11
"Toenails painted" Hmm sounds like a topic, I could actually create.
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• United States
16 May 11
I'm still here I have heard of a few being banned recently and some who just upped and canceled their accounts. The ones that up and go and not say to anyone that they are leaving is sad for me because some of them I/we will never hear from them again. It has seems a bit slow, maybe I need to start starting topics,
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• Canada
16 May 11
You start, I'll respond. Need some action around here for sure.
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@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
16 May 11
It is even sadder when those that go then come back and say 'I'm new'
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 May 11
Definitely, you start I"ll respond....
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• Canada
16 May 11
For me, if it's not work, it's the rescued kitty, or housework. Ugh. Not much time for important things when I'm that busy. Even my online work is lacking due to all of this. 6 day work week, kitty here since Wednesday and still in a foul mood. Rescue agency doing very little to help the situation. A new roommate moving in, so everything from the basement has to move upstairs to the room the kitty is living in.
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• Canada
16 May 11
Unknown at this time. That's one big problem I have with it, not knowing. No one on the street has been here long enough, or they haven't seen these cats around until last year. This one started coming around for food over a month ago, that's when I started feeding it and realized that it was injured. I would have found a way to do TNR for the colony, but this one takes priority right now.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 May 11
I've got two foster kitties myself, but they are too small to be adopted out....
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 May 11
My two are very small kittens, so it's not that hard to domesticate them. How old is the one that you have?
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
16 May 11
hi dawnald after having one fifty and two hundred back discussions and not getting them done no matter how hard I try, I notice a lot' fewer new ones c oming in . I in desperation went into friends started and in just a few hours I realized I had down all the new ones that I could relate to, barring cricket and hockey g game discussions and political ones which I never do I had done them all.l guess a lot of my fri ends here are on vacation or out visting someone or like so many out of jobs are out scouring the neighbor hood for new jobs, also some of my dearest my lot friends have left. One who pm ed me to tell me that a guy mylotter had really insulted her on one of my discussions and mylot she felt had been unfair in deleting her commebt I tried to explain that his response was deleted so her comment was too that mylot was not telling her she had flamed anyone. But I think she left and she came here about the time I did, now I feel awful as it was my discussion that she thinks her comment was deleted from. she said she just could not take it.I tried to explain he was the one who flammed not her. He is a real jerk too. I do hope she has reconsidered however.
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@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
16 May 11
Heck that is half of the problem here MyLot should be FUN but too many recently are taking it all too seriously and there are too many 'evil' things happening. If some of those who are in PMs right now would get back into these topics and liven them up then no-one would have time to be flaming anyone else!
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 May 11
I hope so too...
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 May 11
some things really need to be restricted to PMs though...
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@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
17 May 11
Don't looka ME! I posted 3 discussions today! I'm typin' as fast as I can!!! Maggiepie “The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep & bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
@GardenGerty (158131)
• United States
17 May 11
I had better go look for them. There have just been a lot of things going on.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
17 May 11
Did you seriously? I don't have a single notification...
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@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
22 May 11
Srsly. And I've noticed I'm missing a bunch, too. It's start'n to cheese me off... Maggiepie "In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences." ~ Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer & orator 1833-1899
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@ravisivan (14079)
• India
16 May 11
I am really surprised Madam. You have more than 1000 friends. Are you not getting the discussion posted by them in your email. For clearing that it will take a lot of time. I am doing it from the morning - yes I would have typed at least for 2 hours for mylot. with only a few friends. It is not a dull day in my view. Perhaps the compensation members get is very less and people who have got work they will not come to this. People like me who are retired - I enjoy doing it. So my discussions are online and you can enjoy posting your views.
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@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
16 May 11
Hi ravisivan! You are one of the new Lotters that I refer to in my posts above. I see that you are busy but sadly it will take a while before many of the older Lotters see your topics. How about adding an avatar and removing that anonymous white man? It will make youmore easy to recognise here
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 May 11
So many of them have gone inactive, and many of them just respond to discussions, they don't post them.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
16 May 11
Yes. Thanks madam. Thanks for your suggestion. My wife says that I should not put my photo. Then is it alright I put some other avatar and how should I do it.
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@GardenGerty (158131)
• United States
17 May 11
Yes, there are some people missing, not sure why on some. I know why on others. I think it gets this way in the spring and summer stuff out doors or getting ready for graduations and the end of the year at school. I do not know how to really liven this up. Another friend has also posted about friends gone missing.
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@GardenGerty (158131)
• United States
17 May 11
@Purplealabaster--you too, huh? Hubby has mowed the lawn, sort of, a little, a couple of times. If I want it done a certain way I have to get it together and do it. I still have some veggies to plant. Where is grandpa Bob when we need him?
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
17 May 11
Can you come and mow my lawn too?
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• United States
17 May 11
You make a really good point here, GG. I personally do a lot more things outside in the spring and summer, which does take away from my on-line time, especially since my other duties (such as cleaning) do not get any less during this time. In fact, they actually increase, because now I have to mow the lawn as well as keep up with the inside of the house.
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• United States
16 May 11
Wow! I thought it was me. I Finally, finally have a lap top that works so I am online 24/7. I thought I just got caught up and that is why there was little to do. Now I feel like I should review and see how many friends have been here in the last 60 days.
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• United States
16 May 11
Same here!
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• United States
16 May 11
Wow! Well promise me , if you are Ever about to leave , let me know. We always have Yahoo! Good friends are hard to find and harder to keep.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 May 11
Not going anywhere (voluntarily)
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@silentwill (1685)
• Philippines
17 May 11
Well I'm bacck after 4 months of hiatus. Nice to still see familiar names but sad to hear that many are also missing. Well some of them will turn up again like I did. Sometimes we just get caught up into our busy lives and may forget about myLot but of course we don't really forget and we can easily find our way back.
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• Philippines
21 May 11
Thank you mysdianit and dawnald. I kinda feel like I'm a newbie again a bit lost on what's going on here.
@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
17 May 11
Your absence was noticed and welcome back
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
17 May 11
Welcome back. I took a long hiatus myself when I was here a few months...
@ElicBxn (63252)
• United States
8 Jun 11
well, this was posted in the middle of my vacation, so it was rather hard for me to post!
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
8 Jun 11
well how dare you have a real life!
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
5 Jul 11
she doesn't any more...
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@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
23 Jun 11
I'd say how dare you have money for a vacation lol
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@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
16 May 11
I am still here, just trying to gather notes for my paper and then I have to start on a working outline. I know that there are many who have left, whether on their own or not, I don't know, but it sure made mylot different. I know with some recent people gone, mylot will be different.
• United States
16 May 11
I don't know MD, I think back on some who are not longer here, who made it really interesting..Of course she also went against the guidelines a lot, but she was an interesting person...Since I'll be going out tonight, I'll grab my camera, maybe I'll catch something on camera that will make a good post...
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@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
16 May 11
Hi Carmela! MyLot is different every day regardless of who stays and who goes. Our mood affects what happens here. When some go it makes some of us sad for a while but then we recover and see beyond the clouds
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 May 11
Yeah, very different, not nearly as interesting. :-(
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
17 May 11
Zzzzzz Zzzzzz Zzzzzz Zzzzzzzz Zzzzzzz! See. I am making some noise....
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
17 May 11
It's a "I'm snoring" noise!
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
17 May 11
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
17 May 11
is that a "driving the car" noise, or what?
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
17 May 11
Hi dawny! Yes, I have definitely noticed a drop in notifications, especially this past weekend! I thought it was just me. I haven't been around as much myself lately for personal reasons and I just can't ever think of discussion topics still! Don't know who you are talking about that was banned though. I've been here for 4 years and have seen many friends come and go, but there are still plenty of "good friends" like you and many others that will continue to keep me here! And every so often I meet someone new and interesting!
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
17 May 11
PM coming...
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
18 May 11
Hi pa! Great to see you too! Will try to be here more often! Hugs back at ya!
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• United States
17 May 11
Opal, it is good to see you around again. I haven't been able to send an invite to wherever the party is on here, because I haven't been around myself until recently. I do hope that we "bump into" each other more now that we are both on!
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@hdjohnson (2981)
• United States
16 May 11
I've notice alot of people come and go, merely because of the pennies they either get or don't get because of post violators, etc... Most of the people that I've met on here are in so much of a hurry to earn extra income, that they lose sight of connecting with real people and miss out on the whole concept of Mylot. That's my personal assessment of it all at least. Then you have the veterans like yourself, that continue to deal with all the newbie friend requests that only desire to send you spam email private messages and not even looking to connect with you as a person. Like this person I recently just deleted from my friends list. They were new, I could tell from their (0) behind their name. I was once new myself and didn't really understand the whole concept of mylot. So I accepted their friends request. Why did I do that. Next thing I know, I'm receiving a private message from them, saying something to the nature of check out my friends site earning upwards of X amount of $$$. I was like what, no hello, my name is BlahBlah Blah, I'm from such in such, I'm on mylot to earn more income streams, how about you? BTW, if you're interested then, please check out my friends website where you can earn upwards of X amount of $$$ in BLANK period of time.
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@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
16 May 11
" they lose sight of connecting with real people and miss out on the whole concept of Mylot" That is half of the problem right now. The other half is that many older Lotters don't seem to have time for the new ones - and that is so so sad because there are many that are not here to spam but are bringing many mew topics but are not getting the participation from the vets
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 May 11
I don't so much mean the newbies though. They come and they go, and the ones that have something interesting to say often stay. But too many longtimers are disappearing....
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 May 11
Yeah, they don't get participation often, but then when you've seen the discussion topic 100 times already, you lose enthusiasm.
@jillhill (37354)
• United States
16 May 11
I know what you mean.....where is everyone? I really don't know what we can do. Just hang in there and hope it turns around?
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 May 11
yeah, well maybe somebody new and really interesting will pop on and liven the site up again...
@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
23 Jun 11
yeah well I don't know what's going on here I've been gone for so long but after so many people leave, the site will get boring and mylot will have to do something if they want to keep generating income from us little folk.
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@ElicBxn (63252)
• United States
23 Jun 11
All I paid for was the gas - and did all the driving - did also pick up some goodies in one place where the roomie's card wasn't working for some reason
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
23 Jun 11
WE still get new people in who are interesting, but I'm not seeing it as much as in the past...
@mentalward (14691)
• United States
17 May 11
I've been busy playing with snakes. Gee, now I'm kinda glad I'm having this problem with the snakes. It lead to one of my infrequent discussions which helped to break the boredom, at least a little, I hope. I've noticed a distinct dip in the number of new discussions but haven't really been too upset by it since I've been extremely busy working in/on my garden. I still have quite a few veggie plants to get into the ground while still maintaining everything in-between rain showers and t-storms. When it's raining, I've been working on my new business. (I hate paperwork!) I don't plan to leave but I will probably still be a bit elusive for awhile since I have so much going on right now but I do poke my head in every once in a while to see if there's anything that really catches my attention and, of course, for which I have something to add. I'll try to be around a bit more often, though, since it is getting so quiet. I can finally keep up!
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
17 May 11
I may be a bit more elusive myself starting pretty soon. I have things to go through and whatnot...
@blue65packer (11826)
• United States
17 May 11
I have been posting alot on under the news and posting photos. I have been using Mylot's search engine alot,too! That is what I am doing. I know some of my friends are busy or have limited computer use right now. I know alot of people here give up to easily and then there are people who become memebers,get frustrated leave and then come back! Those things don't bother me anymore.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
17 May 11
Doesn't bother me either, at least not enough to leave. But it sure was quiet yesterday...
@saphrina (31552)
• South Africa
17 May 11
Hello Dawny. I still cannot see why she was banned. Isn't this site suppose to be one that we can rant, rave and share? Maybe i got it all wrong or i didn't read those darn rules and whatnot. It is awfully quiet here though. Boring actually.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
17 May 11
Yeah, I really don't get it.
@saphrina (31552)
• South Africa
17 May 11
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@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
17 May 11
Hi Saphrina Missed you
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• Calgary, Alberta
17 May 11
Not as active as before because The demographic I am looking for is presently not here which make things uninspiring, Then I am busy at work and other stuff, I only sleep 4 hours a day so My mind is obviously not fresh as it use to be. I think I knew the person you said who got banned, I think that person tried to be mean to some people because its her way of being truthful, she kinda crossed the line. then she tried promoting a site that is a rival of mylot and telling people that site is better.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
17 May 11
the person you are talkng about wasn't from Germany, was she?
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• Calgary, Alberta
18 May 11
That person is from Germany actually, I think I saw that person telling people to leave mylot in favor of another website. Plus that person started to become some sort of a troll in some discussion she participated in. I wont mention names but at certain point that person is my friend until the trolling incident happened.
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