Acceptance (Here on mylot)

i have tried other forums last january. but it's only in myLot when i felt really welcome. i don't know why. in other forums, i feel secluded... like i am on my own. all i do is response to discussions there and that's just it. here in myLot, i feel i can be myself. i can express my opinions well and get interactions from members, too. i feel like we're a huge family here. the atmosphere is full of a certain thing which connects us all. we even extend to helping each other when it come to personal matters. myLot is so different from other forums. the connection from each member to another is overwhelming. there are even friends here which i really get deeply connected, too. and one day, planned on meeting them as well. myLot is not just a discussion site.. not just a forum. but a community to people who wants to gain friends all over the world... we get to know each other through the discussions, comments, responses and even healthy arguments. happy myLotting joey!

You are so right Joey. I felt right at home here. I also feel that I have made many friends here also. I just know that many of us would be friends outside of mylot if it were possible. We live all over the world, so most of the time that is not an option for us. We are a welcoming, friendly group of people. Every now and then we run into someone not so nice, usually those types don't stick around. We have a chance to get to know each other, we get to know each others personalities. We have youngens and oldens here and we all get along with each other. Mylot rocks!!

I am only on here and gather, and frankly I like gather better it is still friendly and the people pray for you and support you and do all kinds of nice things for you.

Those people with 100000 post counts need to get out more, no offense. This isn't a competition here. I'm sure everyone has a place they can fit in.

I know what you mean, joey. When I was just a newbie, you are among one of the earliest friends who requested to be on my list. I was overwhelmed and thinking what was there in me that they like to be my friends. I really worked hard to build my reputation here and we both know its not easy. I've been through a lot here and the lessons I learned is certainly not something that I will easily forget. I once joined a site same as mylot. I lasted for a day only because I felt that it was too dull and boring. There are no camaraderies among the members there. Mylot is really different. No matter how long you stay away from here, you still keep coming back.

thisis the first online forum I have ever joined, so i don't have anything else to compare it to. On the other hand, after being here, I don't feel the need to go looking for anywhere else. any topic I can imagine discussing is either being discussed, or I can start it myself. People here seem to really love giving their views and i have already gotten new insight into things that concern me. I wouldnt want to be somewhere that people just disagree, or just say, yeah, me too. I like that almost every reponse here is thought out and meaningful to the person that is making it.

That is something I also reacted on when i first joined Mylot. Immidiately i had friends and most people that I have camed across here are friendly and helpful. Like u say this is not the case in so many other places online. You get treated as an outsider the first couple of months or so =)

I'm not the type of person that is easy for people to accept. When I signed up with forums online, I didn't expect much from the members at all, but two forums surprised me and one of them is mylot. I think it's only fair that in these 2 forums, I would be more flexible with new members.

This is the only site of this kind I've been a part of, and it's been a great experience for me. I've felt welcomed from the beginning. It's nice to know I can introduce topics, and be heard, and respond to others as well. I've found that 'sometimes' in the world outside of forums such as this, it's easy for people to ignore me, and others, as only the very popular are taken seriously, and people aren't always treated as equals. It's also great to connect with people from around the world.

I think you'll get treated accordingly to how you reply or to what you post. And therefor, if you write good stuff you can be accepted well, I find I was accepted rather quickly. I usually tend to leave after a wile cause I feel somewhat ignored, cast aside or the unequal treatment, but here it seems once you've earned it, if you keep behaving of course you can maintain it fairly well. Sure there might be a few misunderstandings here or there, but I find it highly amazing that there aren't more as this site is so culturally rich. I find it's the only place I've found that everyone tries to get along the way people do here, and it's a great feeling to be a part of that!

Nice topic Joey. i really think that the mylot community is more open in accepting then other communities online, that i know. For me, i know that i do not really care about the number of the posts that a person opened, just about how he writes and what he says. I do not have a big friend list, but i can assure you that each one that is on my list, is a person that his writing character appealed to me. You can see there people with 10 posts and others with 4000. I do understand why acceptance takes a while, but i am happy here people are given a chance and are accepted according to their quality and not quantity.

Hmm.. I find your comment a bit strange. Particularly, you mentioned that people with higher post counts like to put the ones with less down. I am not aware of this occurrence myself and have certainly *not* been doing that too. I know of several others with high post counts but are very helpful too. Might you have a bad experience with someone in particular? Please don't generalize it - your post count is not that low too lol. :PP