Our MyLot Members
By hoghoney
@hoghoney (3747)
United States
October 16, 2007 10:07pm CST
Hello all,
I have just been poking around here at MyLot tonight and I thought I would wonder thorugh the User By Location, Top Referrers, and Users By Ratings. It puzzles me about some of our members here and if you look to the bottom of your home page where it says MyLot Population it will say that there is 110,301 members to date. Now, I spend some time going through the User By Ratings and guess what I found. It says that there is 2206 pages of us members and how many post that we all have but what puzzles me is the fact that out of the 2206 pages 744 of them are of members that have joined and only have one post, WOW that is alot of them being that each page has 50 members on it. So if you were to start at page 1452 to 2206 thoes are all of the members here that only made one post and that is 37,200 members, again I have to say WOW!!!! Now I did run across two members that caught my eye and that members name is nemer24081960 and nemer240819601960, now the first thing that came to my mind is that this is the same person or they joined with the first name and then made them a referral with the other one. SO that now just tells me that 110,300 members and 37,200 one time posters that leaves 73,101 of us members here that is keeping MyLot alive and kickin so congrats to us 73,101 members that love it here, we should be darn proud of our selfs. Do you take time to check out these parts of MyLot and just wonder about why these ones joined and never made an effort or if they never come back why dont MyLot just delete them out. Are you as puzzled as I am. Hugs All!!!! +
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22 responses
@gradyslady (4054)
• United States
17 Oct 07
Not all people are active, some people have 0 responses. And if you get banned from the site, you're still in the population but I don't think you show up in the search results. I'm not sure on that last part, but that's just what I assume.
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@trinihd (996)
• United States
17 Oct 07
Yeah, good luck...! That could prove very time-consuming and not necessarily rewarding. But it would be interesting to find out. I think some people may get discouraged or some people simply forget to come back to a site. I know that has happened to me....even the lure of earning cash is not enough sometimes, especially when it's not like a staggering amount. I think that might account for the people with just 1 post who never come back....unless of course they really are new.
@gradyslady (4054)
• United States
17 Oct 07
The score next to your name does too mean they aren't responding, that's how I have 2246, that's how many I've responded to.
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@hoghoney (3747)
• United States
17 Oct 07
You know I look at some of them and some most of them joined made one discussion and that was it. I seen a few that had joined a year ago and that was the last time they were logged in. I just think it is neat to go through them every now and then.
@raijin (10345)
• Philippines
17 Oct 07
i believe the admin didn't deleted those banned member's accounts because of the number of other posters who'd get affected, when they delete the account and also that banned member's discussions. It'll have a major reaction on all of those who replied and who came across with that certain user's posts, like a domino-effect. But I believe there are some that takes time, since I saw one member here who used to be active but later found out that he was caught cheating the system. After a few months, we just found out the mylot deleted everything on his profile, so it caused us all deleted posts and ratings went down because of it.
@raijin (10345)
• Philippines
17 Oct 07
I just made those banned and inactive members as an example, no pun intended. I'd like to look at it in a more general view, that provides the same explanation to all those who joined this site.
I also have 3 referrals, two of them didn't post after registering and one left after posting 6. I also don't have any idea why they don't delete it, but whatever their motives are I guess they would prefer to keep it by themselves.
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@hoghoney (3747)
• United States
17 Oct 07
Oh I didnt say anything about banned members, it just caught me funny that 37,200 people join here for what ever reason and made one post and never posted again or has ever been back. Heck I have three people that joined under me and have never made that first post and one of them I know who it is and I tell her all the time about how silly she was to join and then not do anything here. It is like when we go to the new user discussion and we all welcome them here and that is the only discussion that they did and never come back then we just wasted our time for someone that really did care what we replyed to them if you think about it.
@aseretdd (13730)
• Philippines
17 Oct 07
Wow... you did a lot of computations with that... what prompted you to do this survey or research?... i wanted to do it but i can't find the time... so you were able to beat me to it... nevertheless... i am glad that there are still a lot of active mylot members and i hope that those who are inactive will find time to participate more often...
@worldwise1 (14885)
• United States
17 Oct 07
A very interesting discussion, hoghoney. I think you have really stumbled upon something-the fact that some people know how to get around the system! I am one of the proud myLot members you refer to that enjoys coming here and posting discussions. I agree that admin should do some checking up on these one-time contributors and start eliminating those who are inactive. That would at least level the playing field for the rest of us. The guidelines should be set so that anyone who is absent for a long period of time would be automatically dropped.
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@hoghoney (3747)
• United States
17 Oct 07
Yea it is just silly on their parts to join and never come back, they just dont know what kind of fun they are missing do they,LOL. And I agree with you about the guideline. You would think that MyLot would want to clean up their files so that they could have more space for the ones like us that enjoy our time here.
@BYOLA2871 (4371)
• South Africa
17 Feb 08
that was awesome men ,you have done quite a good job though i had thought about this before but i never got around to doing that,for example i did make a post to south african members a while ago and surprised that none responded is that to say that there are no active members from some countries?to those that have been active here keep it up
@BYOLA2871 (4371)
• South Africa
13 Mar 08
you are welcomed back,hope you ahd a good time while you were away from mylot,well things have been happening so just get into the groove we have some new members too
@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
18 Oct 07
I also believe that People are still on there that have been banned I have seen them as they where on my Friends List so really the Number on here is not correct at all
Also why is that Person getting away with it
Well never mind but yes I agree congratulation to the People that do keep the Site going even though they are not thanked for it as such
Hugs to you Sweetie
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@hoghoney (3747)
• United States
19 Oct 07
Hello Gabs, how are you doing. Well like I put in my last post, this really was not about the ones that have been banned. I was just thinking that if these people that joined and only made one post and left to never come back, just image if they were active how many more discussion that we could post to everyday. If all 37,000+ were to make one discussion a day we would never run out of things to talk about.LOL. BIG HUGS!! Have a great day!
@twoey68 (13627)
• United States
17 Oct 07
I was in there playing around too the other day. I went through my pending friends requests and deleted any where the member hadn't been on in more then 6 months. There are alot of members that haven't been on in a really long time. I do wonder why MyLot doesn't delete them.
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@hoghoney (3747)
• United States
18 Oct 07
yea I think sometimes you just got to clean house and wipe out the cob webs. I have alot of friends that have not posted in over 6 months and sometime I think about deleteing them off but then I think well they might pop back in abut then there are a few that just are not here anymore and I might clean house again this week, Hugs!
@Bunsdk (242)
• Denmark
17 Oct 07
I did some random checking around just as I started to see what kind of community this was. If ppl were active, if it looked like there was a lot of "cheaters" and such, and I found that there was as you noticed a lot of one timers.
But numbers counts, so thats possibly why they havent deleted all those.
I created my account a loooong time ago, and Id say, it took over 1½ year for me to actually pay attention to it and start being active. But all earnings I had from back then were removed when I started again.
@hoghoney (3747)
• United States
18 Oct 07
Well we are glad that you found your way back to us here, MyLot is really a great site to be on and there is so much to keep you busy. You know I spend alot of time here and the money I make here even pay my internet bill every month for me so it is like getting free internet. Soon you will find yourself doing even more at time goes on. Have a great day and Happy Posting.
@carolscash (9492)
• United States
18 Oct 07
There are a lot of us here that actively participate in this community. I like this site and really enjoy the posts here for the most part. I never have a day here that I can't find something that I can respond to. I am glad that the site has so much traffic,but it would be nice if we could get all of those who don't post on here off of those lists. I do occasionally check those out and I would like to be at the top of the users list, but I don't think I will ever get there as I don't have a lot of time to spend on here most days.
@I_LUV_U (2519)
• India
14 Nov 07
Hi honey,
LOL, I appreciate you for all those calculations. I think most of those members who left mylot with a low post count such as 1,2,3... felt discouraged by the response they got for their first discussion. Just put yourself in that situation, how would you feel if nobody or only 1 or 2 in a community of 1 lakh population responds to your discussion.
Obviously, they all must have expected more response seeing the population of myLot.
When they discovered that there are no carers for them here, their pride and self-esteem was struck, they thought that the population displayed on the homepage is false and self-created, therefore they gave the verdict - THIS SITE IS A SCAM - they left. This is one case.
The other is, they might have been cheated by their referrer, who might have described this site to be the best one, with all the sugarcoating required to motivate the innocent to join under him.
When these *cheated* mylotters logged on to myLot with their lot of unavailable expectations, they are all obviously dissappointed. To add on, even myLot would have added more fuel to the fire, by deleting their introductory discussions like "Hi I'm XYZ from malaysia, what's your name?" which happened with me a long back.
Likewise, several interpretations can be given for this.
I personally believe that most of them left this place with sad faces.
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@hoghoney (3747)
• United States
16 Nov 07
Thank you Luv, I had some of the same thoughts going through my mind like that also. I at least would of came back and gave it a few days and made my own oppions about the site. and then I felt that some of them just joined to see what it was and just was not into this kind of thing here.
@seahorse4445 (639)
• United States
17 Oct 07
Well I must say I do join sites and if I don't remember to bookmark them i forget about them unless they send me an email. I do like mylot though
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@Pompon (1757)
• Poland
17 Oct 07
Hmm... I think it would be good if people who don't post anything in 90 days would be deleted. I mean one post in three months isn't much and if they can't do that it's their waste. And hey, someone mybe want to have the same nickname but it's blocked by an unactive user and then what? :P
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@foxyfire33 (10005)
• United States
17 Oct 07
I have noticed that also and wodered many of the same things. What gets me is that I only have 1905 posts right at the moment which should put me at the very bottom of page 11 of that list or #650 of 110,318. How exactly is that possible with out a lot of inactive members? It would be great to think that there really are 70,000+ happy members here but it just doesn't seem possible as quickly as I'm moving up through the list....considering there were 75,000 users here already when I started.
I do wish mylot would go through and delete the inactive ones...on the list at least. Sure it looks good to boast 110,000 members but it'd be nice to know where we really stand here.
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@hoghoney (3747)
• United States
17 Oct 07
I agree with you and while I was poking around I forgot what page number I was on. And it would also help when we do post to discussions of new users and then we see where it was started months ago it just makes me think that do I want to post to this one or pass it up because that person wont care what I wrote they are not here to read it. But yes it would be nice to know where we really stand at.
@lucky_witch (2707)
• Philippines
17 Oct 07
Well, I guess we should expect that though mylot has the biggest (i think) population in forum sites... there would be members who is not active in making post and responses. Some just even sign up then forget everything about mylot. Few are those like us who see mylot in different manner... as a way making friends, sharing, learning and earning money.
@xiebocong (30)
• China
17 Oct 07
I'm a fresher to mylot also, I have been here for three days,gradually i find it is very interesting,here i can communicate with people from other country,talk about our common interest and hobby, my spare time is becoming more and more profuse and I think my english will have a big improvement also.
@hoghoney (3747)
• United States
18 Oct 07
there is like no end to them, I started out looking at one page at a time and I though dang and them i went to 5 pages at a time. I was so glad to get to the members with 2 posts,LOL and lord knows how many there are of them. gald to see ya at 32 keep posting and you will make it up there with us on the first 100 pages. Hugs!
@quanto50 (140)
• Sweden
17 Oct 07
Increasing community.. let them increase ina way they want. it is good to be many than less.. magnificent ideas would appear.. who knows .. may be they would advice to some of us .. may be they would have brilliant ideas to sole our problems..
I think when the community gets larger its intelligence and it scope also goes up so that there comes more efficiency and progress.
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