Has this happened to you?

No your right for feeling this way.I noticed 2 people who always respond to mine are always doing it shortly after to me.They word some words differently,but it the same.I do feel ripped off,but learnt to ignore it because it seemed that they couldnt find something to discuss and decided to reep on me,hehe.Im careful of them now.Its like 5 minutes after responding to mine that they post their own little "twin"and i dont respond.Its friends(so called)hehe:{

As far as I know it has never happened to me. I know I have seen several times what seems like the exact same post within hours of each other before though. That stinks that they did that.

That happened to me several months ago. Go ahead and report it, telling mylot what you just told us. It's in the guidelines not to copy similar discussions or to look for similar discussions and not repeat them if a person sees them.

I don't know if this has happened to me or not, because I don't usually check the posts the person makes after responding to my discussions. But that's not a good situation, the person "stealing" your ideas. But did he/she just used yours as an inspiration for a different post or copied everything? I don't think you're being silly, I would feel the same way if somebody had stolen my "work". Oh, I have a question to you: since you're a 10, can you copy and paste?

Hi vicki, I have had this happen a few times and frusterating is not the word! Wow! It gets me upset lol. I once did a discussion and the next day another person had the EXACT same title, the EXACT same photo with it, BUT the only difference was her child was 2 years old and mine was only 15 months at the time! OoOoOoO big difference lol. Thanks for letting me vent and sorry that you got ripped off too! Your Friend, PurpleTeddyBear!

That make sense. Many people wants to post as many as they can. When he/she running out of idea, then stealing/twisting other's idea is one way to make him/her keep contributing so that his/her cents keeps growing.

You are not being silly and you should report them. This is cheatiing and If you don't report them someone might repport you as ciopying them and your discussion could be delteted. Go to the ! and a box will appear and just say that this person coppied you discussion. Do it as soon as you se something like that so people will not be able to respond to them then loose their pionts and earnings. It's the right thing to do.

That happened to me several months ago. Go ahead and report it, telling mylot what you just told us. It's in the guidelines not to copy similar discussions or to look for similar discussions and not repeat them if a person sees them.

I don't really understand the rules, since every time I look up a subject I see a lot of repeated subjects. So I try my best to start very unique subjects, and I think I succeed in that regard. Unfortunately I hardly get ANY responses ... Now I have a doozy for you. Way back when I was a new member I replied to a discussion (sorry, I don't remember the topic) and supplied a link to the web page where I got the information. I always check the discussions I respond to the next day to see any reaction. The VERY NEXT POST was the pasted article of the link that I sent previously! And the discussion starter PRAISED that poster for giving so much information ... and not a word was on my response. Since then I tried to type as much as I can (I still have less than the required 500 posts.) But I hear myLot does not like direct quotes like that, at least without attributing the quote to the source.

Well, this is not right really and I am sorry it happend to you Vicky. And maybe I am weird as I never check for discussions, because I know how angry I might get if something similar happened to me. I have no idea what to do in yoir case either. This is so NOT NICE to do... TheFortunes

Yeah, I notice similar topics here in mylot. This is really something for the admin to act on. Other members will just modify the question, adding something to it but the thought are all the same. It's unfair you know. I hope mylot will do something about this and this problem has been around for a long time.

know what you mean and yes I had that same thing happen to me. I search every posible word in my discussions to see if its a double and one time I did that and opened a new discussion and not 1 but 2 people opened their own discussion exacly the same as mine (the both replyied to mine) one changed the title a bit but the idea was the same the other one changed only 1 word.

No, it never happened to me. And I think it's horrible thing to do because it only proves the sole reason for this user is to make here money:/ I don't like it and even more, I despise this kind of attitude. I only start a discussion when I find an interesting topic myself. Well, it's true that reading some posts gives me an inspiration but I never rip off someones thoughts:/

I haven't ever noticed that happening to my posts. But yes, I would feel a bit ripped off if I did see that happen. Instead of putting thought and effort into a post, they just knock off someone else's work. Pesonally, I'm here to share ideas and chat with other people - not try to get as many posts as possible.

You are not being silly as this is plagarism and is against the rules of mylot. If you witness this again you should report it to support, that way the duplicate thread will be removed and the person's rating will go down. If they do this enough to the individual, they will either get the point, or be banned from mylot.

such a thing never happened with me till date,but someone stealing your ideas is really bad.i don't understand why people do this but what they do should be offensive.it feels bad when someone responds to your discussion and then makes a new discussion on the same thing, exactly the same.you are not acting silly instead this is an important news that you have highlighted because no on normally notices these things....

Actually it has never happened to me but has happened to one of my friend's discussion.I saw that three of the responses of his discussions,however,were not exactly the same,but with the same situation and making the same sense.I wonder if people do not know how to write or have no creativity then why do they come to this site?