Dumping on mylot must be stopped.....I am taking a step....help me

Complain: I am new on MyLot and I was expecting there to be more serious questions on here. I have noticed people asking some pretty dumb questions. I have posted a few questions and I really needed some help with them but no one answers them because they get pushed to another page so quickly that no one gets to see it. I didn't join MyLot to answer stupid questions. I joined to have real discussions with people and have my real questions answered.

well, you are right!! do whatever is right to do.. but for me, I don't mind about it. I will not spend my time on that stuff. I am here to participate and I will just ignore those newbies who are doing that. I don;t want people to get upset with me, and ruin their enjoyment. let them realize later when nobody will reply to their postings.. that's the best lesson they would learn..

Umm, you do have a point there and yes, I noticed it too. In fact, I was also thinking that almost the entire pages are being filled up by one person, so how far back do we have to scroll? Are you trying to say that a person can post max 20 discussions till they reach 500 and then have unlimited access? Sounds good and this will help them to respond to others discussions and get themselves better acquainted. You know, most newbies just stick around for sometime, see how much they can make and then vanish into thin air.

Congratulations darksorrow on starting a excellent discussion! It seems many are in support of regulations for newfies. I thought ironmaden had a really good scale for all mylotters to follow. I wonder what myLot management will choose to do about this topic after reading your discussion? I do think it would be a good idea for them to read your entire discussion to help them make a decision on how best to deal with this issues. There were great ideas and points brought out in this discussion. Good for you for starting it!

I do not think that people are copying posts. It just so happens that there is no subcategory here in MyLot. And it is not possible to see similar discussions BEFORE posting, except if you search for keywords. I wouldn't read all discussions before starting one, either. So if MyLot can't find a way to make us see - before posting - similar threads, I don't think that you can complain about that. It's unfair for people who meant well in starting such a discussion only to find out that someone else had made a similar one months ago. You also said that posts get pushed back as new ones are posted, so it is not really fair to make a generalization that people are copying discussions. I do agree that there are a lot who start meaningless discussions but I think that they were misled into thinking that they can post anything they want. I have complained about this one some time ago: That MyLot should have a way of posting some guidelines for everyone. I have recently joined a site similar to MyLot and a large banner can be seen on all pages, above the blank forms for posting discussions or threads: Read the Rules first before Posting. That will really help newbies around. Not all people have the same level of thinking as the majority of people here in MyLot may have, so they tend to just post and not read the rules. I know that you will say that is stupid but it is a reality that we must understand as well. There are a lot of people that do not really know how to start a discussion and are just trying to start one to see how it will go. They may sound stupid to you but for the person trying hard to make a discussion that was big deal.

I agree about the complainers. I think the biggest factor is that their money is not updated right then. I also think they have unreal expectations. They expect a full time job. My backing of mylot is that it is like a regular forum with money and not a gold mine. You can't make a living but you can make money while having a fun time. Thanks for reading and good luck.

i have seen taht too. but i believe in minding my own business. i think let them start what they start and how they start. its ok till they do not spam or disturb us.

Don't you think you're being too harsh to newbies like us already? Somebody just invited me to sign-up because he told me that mylot is a good space where you could discuss interests, be it simple, light, serious or whatever. Mylot welcomed us newbies and I really liked it here because it helps me in a way. I get to express, communicate and improve my English. I didn't know that there are limitations in the discussions. It was not stated in the guidelines.

Thanks alot for highliting this because it has also been a big bother to me. You get a newbee with like 20 discussion and only 2 responses then you wonder what that person is upto and those discussions they start are just a one sentence thing and maybe a repeat of what had been posted here many times already e.g coke or pepsi?- I wish mylot could notify people on a repeated post like this SORRY THAT POST ALREADY EXISTS OR HAS BEEN POSTED BY ANOTHER MEMBERE. My other complain here is how to delete discussions with no responses.

I hear you on this darksorrow I don't think it has ever been as bad as it is recently But instead of complaining here we can do it immediately using the '!' against each discussion and response and comment. Using it helps MyLot to act quicker I'm sure

My complaint is all the people who continue to post their referral links - it appears that some only joined here to do this. They obviously did not read the posting guidelines!

I'd have to agree but I would hate to be limited as to the amount of discussions I could post because I try to post quality topics. Everyone is not the same and why complain about it? Just don't respond to the topic if you don't like it. Then let em post "Why am I not getting any responses?" They are not stopping me from getting mine so why stress it at all?

Although I am one of the newbies, I totally agree with you. I have been a member of myLot for 5 months now, and have made only 40 posts. I don't have a lot of free time on my hands, and the free time that I choose to spend on myLot I do not want to waste it on searching for interesting discussions to respond to. Unfortunately that is what happens every single time I login. But its not only the newbies that do this. I find older members doing the same or similar things, and you'd expect them to know the TOS and discussion guidelines by hart. For example, last week I saw an older member posting affiliate links. Luckily probably that discussion got deleted and that person learned his lesson since today he responded on a discussion that posting such links is against the rules. And today a person with almost 800 posts and a rank of 10 started a totally pointless discussion, similar to myLot's example "How old are you", that has been asked just few days ago, plus few other times before. And this are just two of the numerous other offenders, newbies and oldies alike. Maybe instead of "Please be as descriptive as possible" on the left hand side when starting a discussion or responding to an existing one, it should say "Please refresh your memory of the TOS and guidelines".

i agree im still quite new and i think that when you first join you should respond to 100 discussions before you can start one then you have some idea whats out there and will help you think of some interesting discussions. there are loads of members on mylot so there are going to be quite afew discussions about the same things but i think people should try to be original

i agree with you... i really admire you... i see that you are a newbie yourself as you only had reached your 500th posts milestone... but you already know the rules and making complains to the admin about other newbies who are breaking the rules here... well done... hopefully mylot will do something about this... take care and have a nice day...

Nothing personal against newbies here but I noticed some discussions with just one-liners and usually just: "which do you like most? coke or pepsi?" and then when you read the whole thing you'll only get: "pepsi for me. how about you?". I mean, they could ask questions like that but at least be more descriptive about it, and not just stick with the coke and pepsi thing, or the pink and blue thing, those kind of questions. Also, I think the admin should delete discussions that are almost and the same, especially if the other 5 has zero responses, or just merge the whole discussion if the others get 2 replies to their topics, that way mylot will be "clean" of flooding discussions.

Hello darksorrow, I came across so many discussions from newbies who might not really know the rules here. I won't say that only newbies do that but most of them tend to post and post, thinking to earn more. In fact, MyLot actually offers more than just earnings here. You can find many good people out there though you never met them. Throughout a year after joining MyLot, I have so many newbies who 'went missing' - they might get banned from MyLot or maybe they started to feel tired for posting non-stop *smiles* Backstabbing among seniors too, seems quite normal here and as for me, I just follow a very simple rule - I am not going to be rude to others. But you don't feel worry, these newbies will definitely disappear later on. Anyway, I am happy to get to know more new people here as it means more online friends for me too. And for the complaint, I am out of it. Anyway, good luck with your mission, dear friend!

I agree with you but maybe it should be more like this: 0 posts: 5 discussions 100 posts: 10 discussions 200 posts: 20 discussions 300 posts: 35 discussions 400 posts: 50 discussions 500 posts: 100 discussions 1000 posts: limitless amount of discussions. Then there would also be more of those interesting discussions... And the copy-paste limit would be really good at 500. The most stupid thing is people asking how to add friends! One day I saw about 10 NEW discussions where people asked that. And I only checked new discussions about 20 times that day!!!

WEll I agree with that copying your own discussion is definetly not good but in the other side,maybe some of the newbies didn't notice that you have d same discussions i guess you will never notice because there are thousands of discussions here in my lot that you can't read just in one day...But if that what you think that you need to make a move about it,then we support you...:-0 have a nice day and god bless...:-0

Wow, I have seen all these posts on newbies lately, and it kind of makes me feel like crap. I just came here the other day and started posting topics that I didn't see anyone else had posted. I just like to start conversation, I don't care about making money or anything else. I wish that instead to going above the newbies heads, you could just confront them. If I'm a culprit, I want to know. I am new, and yeah, I am excited about posting. I'm sure alot of other newbies are the same way. They will be a little post-happy until they get the hint. After a week if they are still doing it, thats another story. If you don't like their post ignore it, let them get the bugs worked out.