Does MyLot need a quality control on discussions started?

I agee with you sometimes I am reading something I cannot even uderstand what is the question being asked. I try hard but is too much sometimes!

Hello! I know what you are saying. I, however do not agree with you. Firstly, everyone that joins and writes here knows that the discussion is based on opinions. I agree that sometimes the discussions looks a lot more like promoting etc than discussing, but most of the time it is a discussion. What constitues a discussion is people adding their opinions, not facts. If one would only be allowed to put in facts, there would only be statements, and certainly no interesting discussions about people's opinions. The whole point of myLot is being able to discuss anything with users from anywhere all over the world, no matter what culture, ethnicity and race I can get everyones point of view! Secondly, I think that when joining and being a member here you will have to realize that not everything that is written will be perfect or "right" from your point of view. The whole writing English discussion, I will not even bring up, because most of the time that isn't an issue. About the facts etc, it is your choice to answer to a discussion or not. If you don't like the discussion you can always choose not to acknowledge it with a response. Thirdly, and most important. Having restrictions on what to write in any way is CENSURING.. whatever you call it. It is enough that people follow the guidelines, and basic laws (not to discriminate etc). As soon as one decide to forbid a certain type of writing it will always be the question of who should be the one deciding what is okay and what is not. I am sure that if you get to decide you would delete very different discussions than someone from remote Russia or Colombia would. Then who is right? And who can decide what is not right.. Can you say absolutely for sure what is facts and what is not. What you read in the newspapers, sees on TV, find on the internet is certainly not facts automatically. Media:s "facts" are always opinions rather than facts.. Very rarely are there facts, or the same "facts" being mentioned in different news.. Compare CNN and BBC for example.. Anyway, I can go on forever. To sum up, I understand what you mean about quality control, but it is you as a user choosing not to respond that is the quality control. Having someone deciding what one can write and cannot write, what is fact and what is not facts is pure cenurship, whether you like the word or not. And until you can say who is almighty enough to be able to decide what is right and what isn't, what is facts and what isn't and what should be allowed to write about and what not, I think any censuring is a bad idea.

Well, I can see the merit to your idea of a quality control, and I have seen some posts with factual mistakes in them, but every time that happens either some happy mylotter will come along and correct the mistakes, or the post doesn't get answered. We seem to have a self correcting system here at mylot.

I think people make mistakes, so the best thing to do is politely point out what the mistake is and the reference they must have missed. Who knows? They could have been distracted and wrote french instead of belgium. Mylot is a good place to teach new things to people and help each other, so I think it's better to teach them what was right or ignore it...i've never known complaining to be effective in solving problems.

i think that they should do quality control on the posts that are like not even a sentence long.. other than that and the people you mentioned i doubt it will happen just due to the fact your suppose to be open and discuss things here.. it drives me nuts when i see some one posting something i know is false but i hope at least they thought it was true when they posted it and not for like shock/reply value.. that would piss me off

I dont think mylot would need that because here we are to discus anything and everything according to the tos.And mylot officially checks every discussion before coming to the forums.

While mylot says that we should be make allowances for users who are not good in English and may have poor grammar habits, it does say, or the last time I checked it said that if the post is very difficult to read or understand, it is reportable. Text speak is against the guidelines, and if something is spelled so badly, and it seems to be a habit, I think you can report it. I mean mylot could just contact that member and ask them to do a bit of checking before they post on someone. I don't think it would do harm to report it.

It is an open forum here. With so many people posting mylot would be far too busy to check the quality of each discussion. The most you can do is to ignore it if you don't like it. If it is extremely offensive and distasteful you can report it.

I get your point - and it's for this very reason that I tend to stick in one interest. I try to avoid entering into any discussion where I might feel 'out of my depth' so to speak. I can relate when talking about personal feelings or events but I have never started a discussion about facts of which I was unsure (I think in the last three months I've only started a discussion regarding the Italian football team outside my favorite interest). I notice that some of the responses above have misunderstood the point you are trying to make - great pity and I think this also demonstrates how little thought and attention is put into responses on many discussions. Having said all that this is an Englishwoman in Italy wishing happy MyLotting to an Irishman in Germany!

Please don't endorse censorship on myLot! Unless soeone blatantly violates the guidelines, this should remain an open forum! Who has the ability to fairly judge others' thoughts as expressed here?

We, the members, are the quality controllers of myLot because when we see a post that is of poor quality we can give it a negative [-] rating. If the discussion or the post is in violation of the rules we report it [!], and if it is a good post we rate it [+]. If someone has made a mistake in their discussion topic you can respond to it and give the correct information. People do post things without checking them. I have seen speculation, hoaxes and misinformation posted as being factual, and usually someone will respond and point out that this is not true. Anyone who uses the internet should be aware that you can never believe anythng you see on the internet without checking it out first.

My lot writers are worldwide and the ability to write in English vary. Sometimes their best efforts are limited by their education. How would you like to write in spanish or french or german. we must be welcoming of all members of my lots in their contribution to the success of my lots!!!!!!!!

Umart13 thank you for raising that issue some of mylot members do post a discussion which are not digestable. This has been an issue which needs seriouse attention. Some of us are poor in linguistics that is languages or can mylot start sessions for the other national spoken languages like french and others so that people will be free and we shall have accommoded each other. Can that work really.

I think its good as is every bodys diffrent and we should leave it at that

I agree that people should know something about the subject of their discussion before posting, but sometimes people don't realise that they're making a mistake and feel certain about what they're writing, (I know that's happened to me a few times!) It's then up to us to correct them. If I made such a mistake then I'd be grateful for anyone who took the time to tell me what the correct spelling, or nationality was. It must be very difficult to contribute to discussions in another language; we should count ourselves lucky that English is our first language and this comes easy to us, it must be so much harder to do this in a foreign language. Imagine if it was in Tagalog or Gujarati?! myLot is a fun site, not an academic forum, so my feeling is that as long as people posting discussions can make themselves understood, and can contribute to a discussions then that's fine. I love the idea that everyone's welcome here and the way that you can 'meet' people from so many different places. It's much like having a converstion with someone, and the best way, I think to deal with these things if they annoy you, would be just as you would if you were having a proper converstion with them!

MyLot moniters most of the discussions here and will see to it if they don't approve of the discussion. I would honestly let MyLot decied on this for every one know's the rules of the do's and dont's here and if they want to break them MyLot will look into it. They also say that we also have to help keep an eye out for certain things and if we see something that they don't catch to just send them a private message and they will look into it. Other than that I really think you should contact MyLot admin on this. They can give you a better answer to this seeing it's thier site and they make the rules. Good luck

I think it's the personal views of people. If quality control would have been imposed, this would have discourage many people to 'be themselves' while replying. People would have not responded as genuinely as ever. Critics- this is a right to provide our views. So, we can't impose on human views. If the views are not correct according to others, then there is a debate- in such a situation, we learn more as we see the emergence of more ideas from both 'for and against'. So I think quality control must not be introduced on the perception of people here.

Hi there. This might be due to the fact that some members here are just posting discussions for the sake of money instead of being helpful and informative. Some would just tend to posts or even get articles from news or stuffs like that just to fill in their hunger for earnings. Yes, I agree with you that mylot should employ the strongest and the most efficient quality controller ever just to filter undesirable posts and blatant errors recklessly posted by these people. Happy Posting!

I suspect if they introduced quality controls here to anything resembling a decent level of discussion, output would drop by about 95% and they'd be out of business within six months. If you're that concerned, mark down crap like this; the option's there, and it limits the level of damage such people can do. Or respond and put them right.

I think we should leave it.. I guess we really don't have a choice... I think there are bigger things to worry about rather than if someone spelled Annehiser-Busch properly.... and if they didn't know it was a Belgian company then so be it... I am sure that you or someone else corrected them... good grief people... you all are gripey sometimes about the most ridiculous things! ;)