Should I leave myLot?

@callarse1 (4783)
United States
May 11, 2007 5:45pm CST
I am sick and tired of: a) People requesting to be my friend, but only have one-line discussions listed in their user page. b) reporting people who are copying and pasting discussions. c) myLot doing nothing to the users that abuse the system. I keep on reporting one user and her discussions are STILL up and alive. People keep replying to them. d) my friends not replying to my discussions when I respond to theirs. e) people acting like the money here is more important than discussion. Evidently that is why there are so many cheaters. So, what should I do? Should I say goodbye to myLot? Should myLot stop paying us so we don't have so many cheaters on here? Why aren't my friends responding to my discussions? Am I that unpopular that I have stupid ideas? Thank you for answering. Pablo
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18 responses
@mememama (3076)
• United States
19 May 07
take a break, that's what I have done :) I was sick of getting attack for my views, like I posted something under attachment parenting, and some people got huffy about it when they know nothing about attachment parenting. Someone just got into the cloth diaper section and posted some stupid things about what they don't know-I swear the internet is full of idiots!
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@callarse1 (4783)
• United States
19 May 07
Hehehe, yea, I did take a break on here. Don't worry, some people post silly things on here and I just ignore them. I haven't been posting on too many discussions that I don't like or that I feel break the myLot guidelines. Have a nice day. Pablo
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@easy888 (10405)
• Australia
19 May 07
Hello.callarse,I can understand your feeling,I have alot of people requesting me to be my friend,they may also have one line discussions,i will not deny them through as i do not want to make them unhappy.My replies have been copied by someone but other members helped me to report him and the problem has veen resolved.I have to agree with you mylot may not do enough to the reporet system. I have a lot of friends which do not reply to me ,but it is not really important as I am here to have fun,as long as i can find something good to reply and i get some good replies occasionally,i will be happy. Money may be a motivation but it is definitely not the only one,it does not make a difference if i earn 1 dollar or 60 cents in one day,but i will enjoy the time when i am here. There are alot of people copy and paste other's discussions and replies,it is something we cannot control,mylot is already the best in terms of quality of discussions as i have been to other sites before and found out how 'good' those discussions were. Anyway.good luck.
@callarse1 (4783)
• United States
19 May 07
Yea, I agree. I am not here for just for the money. I love discussions so I could chat and chat all I wanted, right? Well, you are right we just can't control everyone, but I do report those discussions that are one liners and copy and paste. Pablo
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• Sri Lanka
21 May 07
Just look at the world around you. How many bad things do you see. Terrorism, thuggery, robbery, murder, corruption, extortion are just a few. So what will you do about it. Are you going to leave it. Either you have to fight it, or you have to ignore it. The best thing is to leave things to the authorities and set an example by not joining the imperfection in the world. The same thing goes with mylot.
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@callarse1 (4783)
• United States
21 May 07
Yea and I report the bad discussions for the authorities on here ;) Pablo
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• Singapore
12 May 07
Hey that's not fair. I do try to answer your topics if I can. *hurt* :P Go take a break. I am not too much into myLot too.
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@callarse1 (4783)
• United States
12 May 07
Yea, you are very nice. You are always replying to them which is very wonderful. Thank you so much, don't feel hurt :D Pablo
@4cuteboys (4099)
• United States
12 May 07
Well I get irritated with the copy and paste cheaters too, how annoying. I report them. As far as one liners, I just ignore them. No way you can police all of them. As far as your friends, maybe with the warmer weather now they are just more busy or outside more!!! I answer yoru discussions when I see ones that I can contribute to! Bekki
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@callarse1 (4783)
• United States
13 May 07
Well, some of my friends don't own a computer so they access at an internet cafe so that is why they aren't writing. In addition, some of my friends I notice only log in about once a month, so it takes them a while to respond the my discussions. Hm, I try to report everything if I can :(, but it takes forever with my connection, so I don't try to overdo it. Pablo
@Augustta (1850)
• Poland
13 May 07
Pablo!!You will not dare!Why??Here is a international forum not your real friend from childhood!!Be careful,don't make me take first plane and come at you to hit you little...lol...What is so big problem??Why some people is pissed you of?... Don't be weak,you are one of my brilliant friend in mylot,and if i lose you i will be very sad... As about one liner friends...be serious,not all people take in serious,you should smile and let it go...ok?...and why you should raport someone??people!!!!wake up...you are not in kindergarden to "raport" someone...rolling my eyes...just learn this"let ot go"... ...and come on to hug you!!ha ha augusta
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@callarse1 (4783)
• United States
13 May 07
Hehehehe, thank you for your post. Grazie, gracias, obrigado. That was very nice to you :). Pablo
@jwfarrimond (4473)
12 May 07
Well, you don't have to accept everyone who asks to be your friend. You seem to think that if you reply to one of your friends discussions then that puts them under some sort of obligation to respond to yours. I don't think that's the case, I'll respond to one of my friends discussions if (and only if) it's of some relevance or interest to me. Is not relevant discussion the whole reason for all of this? I think that if a comment is not relevant to the discussion and has only been made in order to score a point, then it's just a waste of time and will always get - rated from me.
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@callarse1 (4783)
• United States
12 May 07
Thank you for your thoughts. Yes, I was thinking that, too, maybe my discussions are not included in their interests so they don't want to respond. Plus, I realize that some of my pals don't log in frequently, they log in once or twice a week so they can't respond to every discussion I have. Pablo
@hezoid (2144)
12 May 07
I think you should do what you feel is best. If being on Mylot is making you sad and upset, then go. No one else can really tell you what's best, it's you who knows what's best.
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@callarse1 (4783)
• United States
12 May 07
Yea, that is right, and I think you all made me feel happy today :). Thank you very much.
11 May 07
I dont think you should leave mylot, you obviously enjoy it and yes i too am annoyed with all these friend requests and what not but i look past them and i enjoy talking to people about a big selection of topics and you seemingly enjoy this too so why give up something you love? Stay i can sense that you do so i say STAY! :)
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@callarse1 (4783)
• United States
12 May 07
Thank you for your words. To be honest, I reject people who add me as their friends and then have only one sentence discussions. Thank you for your kind words. Pablo
• Canada
12 May 07
If you love mylot then of course you shouldn't leave it! If you don't like some people ignor them and don't have them as friends. I am wondering about the rules? How do you mean people break the rules?
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@ellie26 (4139)
• Malaysia
11 May 07
It is not a good idea to leave mylot just because you feel that you are being let down. I too have many friends that dont respond to my discussions. They have their reasons why they are unable to reply. You have to remember they have their own friends as well. It is not that our discussions are not interesting or we are not popular, it is just that the timing is not right. Dont give up easily and keep on mylotting. Cheers.
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@callarse1 (4783)
• United States
12 May 07
Thank you for your kind words, I didn't realize that their timing may not be right. You are very kind for giving me those nice words :D
@mari123 (1861)
• China
12 May 07
it is foolish to have such thought,most of members have little responses to their discussion,you see most of the discussion subject have little responses,but we are like to go to mylot to discussion with our friends,earning money is not the frist aim,and also the responses are depend on your subject quality.
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@cancatis (406)
• Brazil
12 May 07
Hey callarse! I guess the best thing to do is to encourage the good people to participate more and to report and rate everything we see. We must remember that we all have our share on keeping it clean. It's like on WikiPedia. The quality content-posters watch and take care of their interests pages so the vandals can't ruin everything. MyLot is a GREAT site and we should keep it like that. Reporting and rating are what have now so we should use them, right? Also, for your "friends", rate them -, report the discussions and delete the "friendship". That will help your window to be cleaner. ^^ Cheers!
@callarse1 (4783)
• United States
12 May 07
Thank you for your advice, and I will be following it, thank you very much :) Pablo
• United States
11 May 07
I am very new to myLot and am still learning the ropes. You sound like an experienced and honest user, though, and I hope you and those like you stick around to teach us "newbies" the ropes.
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@Marie2473 (8512)
• Sweden
12 May 07
I do not let things like this bother me. I do what I like to do, wich is discussing and meeting new people. I usually answewr friends discussion, but i can not reply to them all, coz they all do not interest me., I report users that i see abuse the system, and I do not accept friends that hasnt replied to ATLEAST one of my discussions before requesting to be my friend. I do love mylot and I try to take it for what it is. With this many members there is always gonna be people trying to cheat the system and trying to annoy other people, but as long as you are doing your thing - dont let it bother u!
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• India
12 May 07
never do that cuz maybe not in a month not in two , three or the whole year but atleast in 5 years youll earn 10 $ lol but keep that in mind if you have nothing to do just pass your time here thats it ;)
@us2owls (1681)
• United States
12 May 07
Why leave something that you obviously enjoy because of other people? Don't let others drive you away. Just respond to discussions that interest you - start disucssions on things that you feel are important to you and if people answer - so be it - if they don't then go on anyway. I never think about the money aspect. I respond when I think my response fits and if I know something about it. I never think about how much money I am going to make. That in itself is a good way to not be posting rubbish just for the sake of posting to earn. I haven't reported anyone. I figure let them get on with it - they will eventually get tired of it. As long as they aren't bothering me I am OK with that.
@taurean83 (505)
• United States
12 May 07
Leaving My lot for these small reasons is not a good and mature decission.We are here to kill some of our time by involving in discussions and get to know more peoples What other peoples do is not our concern and it should not be.Cause it is not our work to look around for other users what they are doing as if they are repeating discussions,abusing,not using my lot properly ,cheating and vise versa.Why are you bothering yourself it is not your task to think about these things and leave this place for no particular reason.I do not think you should leave.