Is myLot Deleting Jokes?

No I hadnt noticed that I always put mine in the joke catagory and try not do to many a day! Mine seem to be all there . She might being doing to many a day!

ive lost a couple of credit points lost when ive responded to jokes. I dont think mylot likes them. A quality discussion should give the oppertunity to develop it, an exchange of jokes doesnt have a great deal of milage in it. Best avoid them is the advice i give blessed be

I hardly think they are deleting jokes. I get a bit miffed when people say we shouldn't be posting jokes and recipes because you can't respond to them...I don't see any problem. There's also the fact that "jokes", "sharing jokes" and "cooking" all appear on the lists of interests. If they don't want us to post about these things why aren't the interests deleted?

I haven't seen it, but since jokes are against the 'rules', I wouldn't be surprised.

There seem to be jokes from the same few people recently, and these jokes take up most of the list sometimes. I wonder if they are being deleted because it is deemed spamming. To be honest, though, I don't bother with recipes and the like, and I have only re sponded to a couple of jokes in the past, purely because I felt they actually deserved a response as they were very funny and were worded so a discussion could begin

I think so because it is not a form of discussion.

well i really don't know that this is true or not cause i have never posted one and never have seen one on mylot thats why don't have idea about this topic.

Heather I had the same today and they where from Monday to so I think you and I might have got to the same Person But I think it looks like they are deleting the majority now

I have a friend who said his account was removed for too many jokes. I think a joke can be a discussion, but it is not always. That is why I do read them, but do not often reply to them. They have to be set up in the form of a discussion for me to want to spend my time there. I do not like to see my responses deleted.

It could be that they are deleting them .. or maybe just those who post whole heaps of jokes all the time .. or they only post jokes. I have responded to a few jokes and now you have me thinking that I will have to check and see if they are still there .. or whether they have been deleted or not. That will be annoying if they have .. but will teach me not to respond to them as well. I have seen some jokes which I think are a little bit inappropriate ... plus there was one discussion where someone started and named a person they said was doing a cut and paste of everything ... jokes, meanings and so on. Said this person had been reported to mylot ... so maybe that is what has happened. A few jokes shouldn't be a problem and nor should recipes ... as long as that is not what it is entirely about. Some people do go overboard with these things of course ... thinking if it is long then they will get more money for it but I am not sure that it works that way. One of my friends made a comment in one of their discussions that they had a whole lot of responses to a serious discussion .. and the responses from quite a few people were all long jokes. So maybe some people abuse the system .. and get banned or have their posts deleted because of this.

I messaged Mylot about this a few weeks back, because I assumed joke posts are equivalent to plagiarism because they aren't in the person's own words and are generally copy and pasted from some other site. We could all sit here all day and do that and what would become of the quality of this forum. But, I wasn't quite sure if it was a violation because the rules are vague. I just figured it fell under no plagiarism rule. Anyway, the feedback I received back is as follows: ____________________________ Hello JC1969. You have received a private myLot message from myLot_ContactUs! myLot_ContactUs (0) 4/4/2007 Thank you Jan for expressing your concern for this ongoing problem in myLot. We are aware of this problem and we have taken action against the users that have been brought to our attention. Like you said in this message, with the help of the myLot users we were able to weed out the abusers before, but we still rely on the users in this matter as well. We do not see all the discussions that are being posted, so we encourage everyone to report these joke discussions as abuse and state in the abuse report that this user is posting jokes in the majority of the discussions. Our moderators will then look into the matter and take appropriate action. Again, thank you for the message and we hope to get this problem solved shortly. Let us know if you have any questions or concerns regarding this matter, and please report all of these discussions as abuse. We definitely appreciate all the help we can get. Have a great day. myLot Staff __________________ Hope this clears it up for some.

I also responded to a few jokes which my friends had posted because I wanted to support them, but they were deleted by myLot. Some of them weren't even the short riddle type of thing, they were long and amusing but I guess it against the guide lines so now I don't respond to them.

i think it is not a good thing..................

that happend to me about 6 weeks ago,have no idea why this happend,i emailed mylot about this and never recived a repley back

i think so because my lort is strict on this type of things

i think so because my lort is strict on this type of things

I think they are. I've heard others say the same thing and I believe someone commented that MyLot said that Jokes were not what the site was for, they want discussions and conversations. Not sure though as who the heck ever knows from one minute to the next? LOL

Joke is not discusstion, it needn't been followed by posts, if lots of posts followed, it must be the spam as "LOL,haha, so interesting "etc...it will case lots of spams..so cherish your words, and give us your point of view..

I have been reading about this in a few different discussions and am assuming that yes, these joke topics are going to be deleted. It is a lot of lineage that generates very little 'discussing'. Because I now know that they will be deleted, or might be delted, I am steering clear of them. I'm sure if his is a new policy it will only be a matter of days before so many are deleted it will become common knowledge.