There is a lurker among us!

Yeah, some people just have nothing better to do, I guess.

I don't know - haven't really noticed that with this guy. My star dropped about a week ago, but he'd already been on my list for a while by then. So, I don't think that's his game - but I do think there is a game being played. The question is what kind?

Odd. This is supposed to be a fun place. Why would anyone just randomly give negative ratings to people on their friends' list? Just for the heck of it? What a waste of time to be here then. Some people are just weird.

I don't mind adding people, but I always take a look at their profile first. Kind of get an idea what they're about. When I added this guy, he was new (as I had been once) and only the few discussions. But, I noticed this last week that he's had no more discussions, so I checked his profile again and was shocked to see how many "friends" he'd accumulated. At that point, it was 12 thousand something. In a week, he's added TWO THOUSAND more. Something's up with that, so I deleted him. Just not comfortable with it.

hi dear cn i knw abt ur self

I have no info that you don't have. If you joined a month ago, I assume he was the first or second person to request your friendship? He was ahead of me on my referrers requests!! He MUST have some kind of way to automatically add new members, as he has not signed in for 4 weeks now and my friend joined on the 19th, just over 1 week ago. I have thought about checking further and I guess I will now. I was gonna start a thread like this one but saw this so I am here instead of starting a new discussion. I will post any info I get, but I don't know much, just what is written here. He has many videos on youtube, and they are of a young guy so, I assume he isn't lying about his age. But that doesn't mean he can't be administration. The fact that he is doing it on other sites though leads me to believe he is not, thank you for that info, jerzgirl. Please add me as a friend.I will let you know if I see anything interesting. I love a challenge! SO off I go to search!

I have contacted him by e-mail. I don't think he is a danger and STRONGLY believe he IS NOT responsible for the down ratings or deletions or any thing else he has been associated with. He just has a 'robot' or app that adds new members to his friend list. We know it doesn't do any good to add friends here if you are not active, but I think he has his own reasons for doings so, and I don't think they are sadistic or harmful to us. Make your own minds up though. This is my opinion after looking around the net. He does belong to a lot of sites but doesn't add friends like he does on here on all of them. I myself have a LOT of accounts on sites that I have made a couple of posts on and then never returned, as I am sure we all have done, no big deal, right. The only reason he catches any ones eye is the # of friends alone. I think there are a lot of worse things he could be doing on mylot. I can't see that he has broken any of the guidelines.

tammyr I am a little confused about your post, I know you have more information. but is this person bad or good or? was he your friend? I am just curious in trying to understand. I am a new member of a month. I seem to be accepting the post and programs well, so, I guess the question is, what has he done so bad? thanks

There is the possibility he's doing nothing but collecting "friends". Maybe it's a contest with someone to see who can get the most. But, one would think the other person would be on here doing the same thing. I mean, it doesn't make sense to collect friends here to beat someone who has a lot of friends in MySpace or Facebook, right? So, just to play safe, I deleted him. I can find him easy enough - I've seen him on most of my friends' lists. I can look to see if he begins writing anything soon.

Was cooking and eating - I'll check your message.

I did PM you asking for his name, so that I can check my list.. If you can let me know..

hey he/she had given explanation. Follow the link http://www.mylot.com/ryepdx/

Oh! its my fault having scold him/her. I cant able to believe he/she makes own program that works in internet too. I hereby want to say that he/she is very great. Sorry for scolding her/him. I have scolded him/her very much for this unknown behaviour. Sorry yar. :)

I advise u to read that. I have put a special interest in these discussion. [B]Nice discussion[/B]

I know - I read his explanation and commented on it earlier.

why can we add friends which doesn't exist on the mylot ?

I had a hunch it was him. It's good that he explained himself then.

He may just be a mini-nut who likes to prove he can do it. But, the fact that he CAN do it without even being online, that as soon as someone joins, his is the first friend request they get, means he has a program that monitors the site. And this isn't the only site. So, just what is he capable of?

jerz, I had that happening, as well as the letters I typed going in backwards! I removed firefox and re-downloaded it and it seemed to help with the typing problems. The freezing up still happens from time to time, but if you use the drop-down list of tabs, you can switch between them from there. I wish I had a better solution but it is the best I can offer

Thanks tyc. She's right - that's how. I don't know that he's a risk, but if he has the technology to know when people sign up to be the first one sending a friend request, what else can he find out? He's doing the same thing all over the 'net.

NO of course not jerzgirl. We should all be leary! Always. In my first response I said I was going to start a topic along the same line. I deleted his request long ago. When people started talking about him being the troll, I looked into him. I wanted to know if he posed a threat to mylot. I kinda like it here and would hate for anyone to do any thing to threaten the site! If he had plans to do anything other than add friends, maybe he had done it before? Quite frankly, (i.e.:here goes my star!!) I think a few on here should be ashamed to have blamed so much on someone they obviously had had no contact with. Speculating on the reason for all the friends is one thing.But,vViruses and -'s and deletion, I mean come on? I'm sorry, I was taught not to jump to conclusions, and not to judge without your own info. So I found my own info. I got to know ryepdx by reading and searching about him. He was very easy to find, (which is kinda scary) I watched several videos, read some posts, and blogs... and did not feel this young man deserved to be talked about like he was with out being able to have his say. So, I gave him his say. He wasn't able to post here or in a discussion, so he put a letter on his profile. Now don't get me wrong, I am not mad or have any ill feelings towards any one over this. Really. I am quite happy in fact to have met him. He is a polite, bright young man. I treasure friends no matter how brief or how long I have them.

I just noticed something when i just went to his profile page that his friends are no longer there. They may have taken action on this. I'm curious to know if he has disappeared from people's friends list. I never accepted his friendship so I have no way of telling if he has been deleted from everyone's or not.

I don't think I am wrong to have had concerns, even if he has proven to be something else. It was something that, in today's world, is a concern for most of us.

lol He IS on your list # 6 from the top actually. Starts with rye and ends with pdx.

Guess I missed it. LOL

Thanks, I read it a few days back. Still don't think he should be using it here.

I don't know for sure. He has an explanation posted on his profile, but I think programs like that have the potential to do more if the creator wants to.

I also check people's profiles out just to get a "feel" for them. He didn't seem to be someone who would be problematic for me, although I did wonder why he opted to ask me. He hadn't commented on any of my discussions or any discussion I'd responded to. He now has an explanation on his profile page for what has happened, but I don't approve of the methods he was using. He does have a program that he used to add friends automatically. I don't have a problem with his creating programs that are helpful - but, when it's a place like this where participation is what earns you money, not how many friends, it raises red flags. And, when he knows who signs up the minute they sign up, that makes me wonder what else is the program capable of. I am not calling him a scammer - I was definitely concerned that he might be one - but it appears to be more a case of youthful enthusiasm about a program he had created. It was still unnerving. And, I don't think I am wrong to have had concerns, even if he proved to be something else. It was something that, in today's world, is a concern.

He is trying to market things he's creating, but I think it's wrong in this kind of site for him to start gathering friends and using a program that obviously can infiltrate myLot's information to see who signs up as soon as they do. He also said he hasn't contributed because he's been "locked out", but why isn't he contributing on other sites either? Is he locked out of all of them? Might his program be interfering with his ability to contribute? And, if they blocked him, how can he edit his profile?

I didn't feel it was him doing the "minusing", but I had my concerns about his collecting friends and not contributing. He has explained that, but he also confirmed my suspicions that he was using a "robot" program to request friends even when he wasn't signed on. The fact that he "forgot" about it means he wasn't trying to create new discussions or respond to existing ones, not even to see if he could yet do that. It's funny that he can't contribute, but can request friends and sign on and edit his profile. If someone is banned, aren't they blocked completely?

What referral fees? He didn't refer me. He didn't refer a lot of people who added him. I suppose if you're able to get 14000 people to sign up, yes, you can sit back and let them earn your money. But, he has explained that he is trying to build a customer base so he can market things he's creating. And, he admits to creating a program that automatically adds friends.

He may be just playing a game, like hackers like to think they're doing, but I'd rather be safe and put a dent in his efforts.

I've heard of them as well, but I suspect this isn't him. He's signed up on so many social networking sites and is doing the same thing on them - collecting "friends" and contributing nothing. Others have asked him the same question. Why would anyone who WANTS to be social (like here) put a notice on their profile that says, I won't answer you if you write to me? They're not here to be social, is what that tells me. So, what IS their game? I'd rather not find out the hard way.