Why is mylot banning people?

June 8, 2007 8:06am CST
My sister racheldarcy wasn't able to sign into her old account for a while so decided to start a new one. She now can't use that one either. She doesn't know why she has been stopped from using the site. She says she was warned months ago about not advertising affiliate sites so she stopped doing it. She was swondering if people don't like people advertising this type of site so give her bad responses and that is why she has been banned. Will she ever be able to sign up again and keep this log in? Does anyone know?
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13 responses
@prasad1961 (5597)
• India
8 Jun 07
It may be for umpteen reasons for to mylot can ban the members. But in your case make a request that Two accounts from single address and single IP address to mylot for them to know. Until then they think 'michelledarcy' and 'rachelldarcy' as one and having two accounts. So keep them clarified about the facts. See for more at guidelines.
8 Jun 07
We don't have our accounts from the same op address or the same email address or even the same home address so I'm sure that isn't the reason.
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@cdparazo (5765)
• Philippines
8 Jun 07
I know for one that mylot has banned some accounts who uploaded a lot of pictures. They had to check i think each account if there were some abuse as to uploading of pictures.
8 Jun 07
She did upload her maximum picture quota everyday so that is probably the reason. I wonder why they didn't give her a warning first though, as it isn't stated in the rules that you can't do this.
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@ricknkae (1721)
• United States
8 Jun 07
but when she updated pictures, did she always make sure she had the copyrights of the pictures or that they were not copyrighted, because it is mentioned in the guidelines in the photo section... so maybe that was the reason
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8 Jun 07
The photos she uploaded were all hers, but she did upload some of the same photos in different sections so that could have been the problem.
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
8 Jun 07
I was banned for 6 days due to an investigation of possible abuse of the guidelines. I was unfortunate that I had never even recieved a warning or notice that I may be banned etc. That was the worst part. That's all I ca say about it as mylot frowens on this type of talk because it evidently got a lot of members concerned and they flooded mylot with PMs about this topic. Anyhow this person you refer to had to have violated one guideline or another and therefore was banned or possibly under investigation as I was for almost a week. I dont know what else to say. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~
@AmbiePam (93739)
• United States
8 Jun 07
How weird. I've seen some of her old discussions and I don't believe I ever saw anything offending to the guidelines or other mylotters. I can think of other users who are in much more need of banning than she is.
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@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
8 Jun 07
Ok, this is the 2nd time I have heard about this. They seem to be able to send alerts for other things, if they ar going to ban people for something - either temporarily or permanently they should send out an alert saying what is going on and why. I myself do not seem able to upload pictures, they just don't get uploaded. It might be my browser, I can upload to my profile but not to a discussion.
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@easy888 (10405)
• Australia
8 Jun 07
Hello,michelldarcy,I am not sure about the exact reasons why your sister is banned ,but i just read a discussion about this yesterday.Mylot has received huge numbers of photo abuses thses days and they are now having individual investigations on the members who have many photos in their profiles,may be your sister has uploaded a lot of photos on her profiles and mylot need to suspend her account for a while,her account should be reactivated if she has not uploaded any forbidden pictures. Hope she will be fine later.
@Marie2473 (8512)
• Sweden
9 Jun 07
I guess the best way is to ask Mylot why she got banned since they are the only ones that knows for sure. I have seen people being banned for links, pictures, bad language and so on. I am sure that they have a reason, even though it might not be right and then u ahve to object to it.
@cuddleme01 (2725)
• Philippines
8 Jun 07
that is so sad to hear michelledarcy. the best thing to do is to contact mylot about it. Who knows they might restore her account back, for after all there was an error.If the opposite happens well, that's really sad..i just hope everything will turn out fine with your sister and mylot.
@yanjiaren (9031)
8 Jun 07
Oh no I am so upset about this..she is banned again? I ho-pe she can come back I really miss her, she made a new one and put me on friend's list..so she can't use that one at all now? Oh no..I am really upset now..
@LittleMel (8742)
• Canada
8 Jun 07
I think I read that in mylot rules not to post referral links sometime ago. So she might not be banned because people are giving her bad responses or mark her negative. but you said she stopped doing that, so I wonder what was the reason for banning her this time? Another friend of mine had problem using her old account, so then she created new one and after sometime the old account was activated again. Maybe there is still hope for your sister's account.
@ryanphil01 (4182)
• Philippines
9 Jun 07
i have one friend who has started here in mylot two weeks ago and he just got banned the other day. he did not receive any warning or notification from mylot that he cannot join anymore mylot. he tried many times signing in the site but to no avail. i advised him to contact mylot admin and ask any explanaton from them why he was banned. accordingly, mylot does not reply him 'til now. now, we both ask the same question on what would happen to the earnings one member has accumulated in mylot? that was unfair of him, am i right?
@okwusman1 (2247)
• Abuja, Nigeria
9 Jun 07
just advice her to always follows the rules and guidelines that is the solution to her problems with mylot.
@shanyuo (251)
• United States
9 Jun 07
the same thing happend to my wife a few days ago, she notcied she posted a question about perfume and one person answered and it got taged for poll type question so she figured this person hit the !.. The next day she got an e mail from MYlot saying her account was being reviewed, she has noticed that the past few days her ratings has gone down. She is still unable to post and I wrote them an e mail and gave her e mail address to see what the hold up was..