Banned Members With High Ratings...

Wow! Kelly, I think you really brought up a very good point. I was thinking along this line recently too but you are more perceptive than me. The thing is, when a member is banned, no one knows except the admin. The profile page will remain unchanged and there is no marking that a member is banned. (Though we can see if there is a recent login to prove that he is not banned. But it could be pure inactivity.) While I feel that more should be done, I am also hesitant because I feel that some are banned wrongly. Right now, just looking at the discussions deleted, we can already feel wronged. Sometimes we have discussions removed when we feel that we have not violated any guidelines. Likewise, in the case of accounts banned, I think some would be innocent victims too. And to make matters worse, there is no easy way to seek redress. It is likely that the messages sent to admin will not be replied too. Kelly, I must confess to you that I am having the jitters. Every new day when I fire up my browser to www.mylot.com, I wonder if I can log in. It is as if I am gambling everyday not knowing when myLot will ban me - even though I know I did nothing wrong. Look at what happened to you know who - someone who is recently banned. I cannot think of any reason why she was banned and I just saw another discussion by another high profile member speaking up on her behalf that all her discussions in the new account were deleted. I really have no idea... did she really do anything wrong or..? Everyday, I fret if I will be the next. It is hard work here. When will I be "retrenched" without any compensation package? I shudder to think, honestly.

Mylot banned many people without actually explaining why they did it. They just blocked there accounts and prevented them from being able to log on using their accounts. Yet, they left the discussions here. In other words, they just prevent them from participating using their accounts but then keep the discussions so it keeps getting responses and then generating revenue which does not go them by to mylot. There account remaining here to adds to the total number of mylot population so people would thing their are more than 90,000 members when in actual sense there are far less members than that. This is not fair at all. I think if they ban people, then they should remove all traces of there accounts from the site.

I don't have much idea about who got banned. But i think that they shouldn't be shown in the rating list. they should be shown in a separate banned list. it should be done. but i am still curious to know about who got banned.

Hello,kelly,it seems that there have been many members being banned recently,i have just checked the user by rating page and i am thinking some of the top rating users might also have been banned as well. Firstly,i think mylot should let them know the reason behind the ban,secondly,if someone is banned,only the posts which have violated the rules should be deleted,mylot should also check other discussions to see whether they have followed the rules or not,if they do,there are no reasons for mylot to remove them.

This is pretty upsetting, as there seems to be an increase in people being banned lately. Discussions from banned users should definitely be locked, but not removed. MyLot got it's revenue-generating opportunity when the posts were written, no reason to penalise the innocent users who responded there. I have recently received the ability to copy and paste, but I doubt I'll use it, except as an editing tool for my own writing. It just doesn't seem safe to do otherwise. I wonder if myLot tracks a user's copy & paste frequency, along with its other user stats? I wonder if there's a certain threshold, by file size or something, if you copy and paste more than this amount or something bigger than xx number of bytes, or something like that, your account gets red-flagged for review? Does anyone know about this?

i say, remove the post, then take away thier earnings, then lastly add their name to a Hall of Shame.

Personally, in my Opinion, in a way, it would be interesting to see who some of these users are and have their accounts not be able to be responded to even if they have been banned. And they should NO longer be shown as a Top user even if this is the case. These are some of the people who maybe there for a while even were some of the high money earners to now make this site not pay as well either. In reality, I am not sure there is a real reason for them still showing... But blocking people from being able to respond to them and have them no longer being listed as Top user could definately be a start. Maybe this is something myLot needs to consider and help us out here a little.

Psycho's can be very popular people, which makes them think of themselves as more dangerous and liberated when in fact it makes them more agitating and isolated, truly.I don't care to look at their residuals, but still wouldnt want anyone else to loose points because of it.

If they banned the members, I think they should just remove the abusive post and freeze the remaining post. Members who respond should still receive credit. It's not there fault that someone get banned so they should not lose their funds.

The only solution I see on this is, report those of which you think violates the guidelines. I cannot say that those banned do make quality postings too, but it seems that mylot is already implementing strict rules. I remember one time about a certain user who was very famous here back then, who suddenly disapperead. Took about a couple of months before we all found out that the user was a CHEATER, all of his posts got deleted with more than a thousand and there was a major deletion in our number of posts. The best thing to do is, PM mylot about this matter..

I had not heard that any members were banned. If they were breaking the rules, were warned and continued to break them, I think they should be banned. I have seen some people who copy and paste the article as their comment. I have seen people post a single sentance or two as an article and I dont usually reply to those articles. I dont know what the solution is but hopefully mylot staff will figure it all out.

I think if the discussions are violating mylot rules then they should be deleted, points lost or not, they shouldn't be left for others to view and certainly shouldn't be showing as counting towards a member's points that has been banned - it makes no since to leave bad discussions in the system.

I am really confused what 'abuse' these members have done to deserve to be banned temporarily or completely. It's a pity that those who responded to their discussions will also suffer the same fate. I suggest that mylot should not penalize innocent mylotters and they should still receive points for responding to banned discussions. On the other hand, I would like to know the reason for such a move, and if the move is justified. I guess since this is in the guideline, mylotters should really follow them, I mean the guidelines. I am relatively new here, so I hope I don't violate any provisions here because I don't intend to be penalized...

thanks for bringing this important matter to our notice we all must follow the guidlines of www.mylot.com and enjoy our staying here, hope I can to well and stay here for a long time with you guys thanks

Wow this is some great inside information you got here in mylot yea , prehaps mylot could actually publish the list of members that got banned for violating the guidelines and their ip address yea ....

Any procedure should be done with great care. Not right to ban folks that have been good all along. There should be a standard that is applied just like the daily one that is used to keep us on our toes. A reason should be given for the banning. Legitimate and by management and not the invisible moderators. If really banned then their account should be removed from records. All moneys should be paid as is only right. I know they don't do that and warn that they will keep it. I don't agree. They take our numbers for other things so do it here also. The site should only list the currenly active members. That is the best way for showcasing this as an active site. Will look and see what others have to say!

I feel any member wose account was deleted should be removed totally from the list and the population stats as well. I was banned awhile back then reinstated. I started a new account just for the purpose to see what had happened to the original. Well that new accouint is still there even though mylot deleted it. Get rid of deleted members accounts and accounts that have been inactive for 3 months or longer I say. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~

Why does users having higher ratings than you bug you??? It does not affect your earnings or anything else I can think of, except perhaps egotism. The number of points or star ratings (reputation) of other members does not influence how I feel about my friends or myLot. I personally think too much importance is being given to users numbers. It is not a competition, you dont win a price for being the "highest" in anything. I dont even check to see who are the highest users what is the point? All I care about is how I feel about myself and my integrity here at myLot. I have never cheated or been guilty of plagiarism. So as long as I know I follow the guidelines I feel just fine but I dont waste hours of time that should be a fun time policing to see if I can "catch" anyone cheating. Of course if I come across anyone flagrantly cheating or abusing the guideline I will report them but I will not go looking for them. I dont see what satisfaction you can get from that.

I've wondered many of the same things. You and lordwarwizard brought up many good points already so I won't repeat what has already been said. I do want to say that it would be nice if we could be a little more informed of another users status here, perhaps by "marking" their profile like you mentioned. Here's the thing that gets me though. Many times "users by ranking" seems to be confused to mean that those with a higher ranking are the top users. Really though, it is just the number of posts. Anyone can post a lot but it doesn't mean they're any good. I'd like to see users ranked by reputation instead. I think that would be a better way to actually show what users to learn from. I also think that banned members should be removed from those lists if nothing else because it doesn't seem fair to have banned members "higher" than members that are still here doing the right thing.

It would have been better if mylot intimated the banned members the specific reason for such ban. Also they could periodically publish a list of banned members with reasons therefor. The accounts and profile pages of those members banned should be removed from the database. Especially from the list of top ranked users. Now the users are at dark as to many of their friends. No way to understand if they are still there with the site. Thank you for the discussion.