If the answer to a post s a little controversial do you find the page loads slow
By suspenseful
@suspenseful (40193)
Canada
November 9, 2008 1:55pm CST
I find that it happens to me. Whenever I write a post that is controversial that is questioning a certain lifestyle, criticizing a certain public figure, or saying I do not agree with what the majority, then my page loads slower. It happened when I wrote something that was wrong in the election of Obama, and had it happen when I said that global warming was not manmade, and other things. It was as if mylot or one of the moderators wanted me to close the browser or write something else. NOw I do have the mature content checked, so do you find this happening to you?
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
28 Dec 09
Not on myLot, it seems at certain times that it is a little slow especially when you have finished answering or posting a controversial subject or one that requires someone to think. The other innane subjects just happen to fly by. I checked. When I go to either the new discussions or the friend's one, I sometimes see 20 or so stupid one question or posts that do not require a person to think by the same mylotter and I do not think the person would all post it on one text and have the moderators separate them according to subject.
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
4 Jan 10
It is after I respond and then I push the "post comment" then I notice it is slow. That is aside from the page loading slow because everyone is on myLot. The latter I am not concerned with, it is when I write something and post the comment, that really worries me.
@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
11 Nov 08
HM! Hadn't noticed, actually. I'll see what happens next time I post something "controversial."
Maggiepie
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
28 Dec 09
I did notice that when one member posted silly innane non controversial, not much brain power needed, about 20 or so right after the other, that her posts came right after another, and that meant that her connection was not slow and myLot said "okay they are okay, just let them through. You, you're the whiz bank computer operator. Put them on. How fast are your fingers?"
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@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
30 Dec 09
I had my hind brain working on this, & I have to say I've not noticed any difference. I usually have little trouble getting things to load quickly, & when I do, it doesn't seem to be dependent on my posts' subject matter--which varies a great deal--in any way.
Oh well! In science, no experiment is a failure! All answers (technically) have equally valid data, either confirming or eliminating theories!
Maggiepie
MERRY CHRISTMAS! HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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@mipen2006 (5528)
• Australia
10 Nov 08
I have not noticed this, but will be aware now that you have raised the point. However, I don't see how myLot could instigate a program that can fifferentiate the difference.
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
13 Nov 08
I do not know if this is true, but at the time, I was replying to a controversial subject, and I imagined the staff reading it, and then deciding not to send it on for a while. And then when I started myLot on Monday and saw all the fluff discussions, I figured that other mylotters were to scared to answer or post controversial subjects.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
14 Nov 08
The only time I had a post withdrawn was when I answered a post as to how much money you make a day on mylot, but I never started a post who was withdrawn. But then I do not check to see if anyone put their referral link in their response.
Oh for those who want to, don't even think about it. 
I do wonder whether it does occur. But maybe my apprehension is unnecessary. I hope so.
I do wonder whether it does occur. But maybe my apprehension is unnecessary. I hope so.@mipen2006 (5528)
• Australia
14 Nov 08
One of my friends started a discussion that was contraversial, and eventually withdrawn, but they didn't raise the loading speed in their follow-up.
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@kkanaka (886)
• Singapore
10 Nov 08
Your title increased my curiosity and I had to read your discussion, but does that really happen, I dont think so, I havent noticed, you mean each and every post is read by the moderators and they will remove or make it slow, or I think they have programmed it such a way that some words are controversial so the usage of those words will make your post removed but not slow... i think so
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
19 Nov 08
I think it does happen when you write the controversial word and forget to put in the asterisk, they have to wonder where to put it. It was slow this morning and I wrote nothing controversial. so I had no idea what was going on. It was just that that day I was answering some controvrsial posts and it seemed slower then usual.
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
28 Dec 09
You're welcome. You did make sense, and it might not be mylot who is slowing things down. I did read a discussion about how certain words are red flagged by the government and since we mylotters write what we feel, someone might decide to play police man on mylot.
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
10 Nov 08
I will have to look for your topics. I think last week, most of the subjects were controversial: i.e. I hate Obama. I hate McCain. I hate Sarah Palin. I love Obama. I love McCain I love Sarah Palin. 
@chrislotz (8137)
• Canada
9 Nov 08
No, I can't say I have noticed. I disagree with you on this so does that make this
response controversial? If so I will pay attention and see if it takes longer to
post once I am finished and send it to post.
I don't seem to notice a lot of things that seem to happen to people, here in mylot.
I guess I just don't pay much attention to anything except the discussion and what
I am typing into my response.
Alrighty then, talk to you later,
Your friend, Chris 
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@chrislotz (8137)
• Canada
9 Nov 08
Nope. No slower posting it. I am finding that mylot is a little bit slow today and I
think it is because there are a lot of members participating right now. I am
receiving a lot of email notifications from my friends starting discussions, today.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
28 Dec 09
I do wonder if the reason it loads slow at times is because more then the usual mylotters are posting or answering controversial subjects. I will have to check the times. I do know that the mylot web site should not load slower. I could imagine it loading slow in someplace like India or Australia, but mylot is based in North America so it is close by time zone wise. And at the end of the month, I find these silly subjects or one liner questions that are posted by the same person who probably has ten or twenty tabs open and just goes one, two, three, presto. Now if it were slow then, that mylotter certainly could not get 20 or so posts one after the other, but it would be interspersed with one of theirs, then five or six from other mylotters, then theirs, one after 10 other posts, etc.
@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
10 Nov 08
I haven't noticed it. I do read controversial topics and have not noticed it loading slowly, it could be your computer or internet access suspenseful.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
28 Dec 09
I think myLot is slow. I tried loading other pages from other sites, and they are fast. So it is just myLot. My gmail email does load slow but that is because my sister-in-law sent me some jokes and that opened the vangard for spam mail that just had to get through. 
@Yestheypayme2dothis (7874)
• United States
10 Nov 08
I have never even thought of this. I will have to look and see if that happens to me.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
28 Dec 09
It is a good idea. It might be that there is a troll in the moderators and I am sure that the moderators, being fair, would not want a trouble maker. On the other hand, it could be someone in the government who decided to check myLot to see if there are anyone to watch. I know the rules do not forbid anyone here from criticizing the policies of the government or to say how wonderful their religion is, but there are probably some people who Hitler and Stalin would have liked had they been alive then.
@terri0824 (4991)
• United States
10 Nov 08
I'm not on as much as I use to be but I haven't notice this happening. But then again, I try to steer away from controversial subjects. I do good to respond to the many discussions that I have accumulating in my inbox, let alone answer or respond to a discussion of that type.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
27 Dec 09
I do sometimes answer controversial subjects as well as start them, but because of what happens on other forums whre they have rules that in effect forbid controversial subjects, I do wonder if a moderator who formerly worked at a forum where you could not mention politics, religion, etc. might be going over the discussions with a fine tooth comb.
@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
10 Nov 08
I cannot relate to you situation, however, it sounds to me that it's like the "watched pot never boils" effect. You THINK it's taking longer than usual, but it really isn't any different than any other time.
Try timing it sometime to see for sure. 
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
27 Dec 09
It could be that the moderators are trying to see whether the topic should be deleted, and then think well it should not, but why not let her worry, or were about to answer the topic but needed a little more research. I do seem to find if the topic is controversial either people are reading it more to give an appropriate answer then the silly topics that one can just sprout something off the back of their head.
@Bluepatch (2476)
• Trinidad And Tobago
10 Nov 08
Nope and we should watch our imagination, or so I believe.
I've noticed once or twice that some things happen when I cross others and then find out it was happening for a totally different reason.
I'm not saying that you are wrong.
But you could be.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
28 Dec 09
I do find the short and simple posts get through quite easily. But I did notice that when I answer a controversial subject the page loads very slowly. It might be that the internet provider where I live is a little cautious, but I cannot see why they are doing it now. We already threw out our Liberal government and they are the ones who do not want to say anything against them or their libertine policies.
@BabyGurly1745 (302)
• United States
10 Nov 08
I think my lot just loads slow for me no matter what the topic is. I always think it is my internet connection because sometimes it is but i come to realize it is just my lot. Other websites would be loading just fine and fast and i would still be waiting for a page to load on here. it get's annoying at times and i wanna scream, because i am a very impatient person. I actually started a topic about my lot being slow and asking if it was just me or for a lot of other people also!
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
28 Dec 09
Mylot is kind of slow, but for some reason if someone writes a series of posts consisting of one or two sentences, and that would not offend anyone, they would get through, but as soon as the subject is serious like especially religion, then mylot is slow either when someone answers it and it is as if someone, is monitoring it. I do not say it could be myLot, perhaps someone in the government or someone who has too much power? It also could be that mylot wants to save money and finds the best way is to use a slower loading web provider and help us mylotters more financially. Or maybe they want us to write our subject in Word or on notepad and copy and paste. I may try that sometime.
@X3NN379 (40)
• Philippines
10 Nov 08
hi suspenseful.
i haven't noticed anything like this since mylot has been a little slow for me everytime. maybe because all the things i post here is controversial!
hehe, just kidding :)
anyway i think i have a theory on how this works.
i have some experience in programming and i know that it is possible to write a program that checks the articles being submitted for sensitive content. it would be very hard for the computer to filter out all the discussions and responses, but maybe it is looking for "keywords" only. for example - it looks for keywords like "obama" or "global warming" and when it finds one of the keywords on an article it sends it to a person or another program for further checking.
maybe that is why the page loads slower sometimes. but like i said earlier, this is only my theory.
happy mylotting!
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
28 Dec 09
It might be someone in the government who said "we have to keep looking for those who want to get rid of our great leader Obama" and since there are many here who do not like him, myLot would be a good place to look. I just hope the reason myLot is slow is because they are thrifty and would rather keep with the slow loading web provider they have because they like us so much, but I do wonder why is it when one person posts several posts of really silly stuff it goes whiz bang while those of us who really think of the subject or those who post controversy see our discussions drag by and if one is paranoid, one would begin to think "Oh no I said something bad about the great leader"
I just hope the reason myLot is slow is because they are thrifty and would rather keep with the slow loading web provider they have because they like us so much, but I do wonder why is it when one person posts several posts of really silly stuff it goes whiz bang while those of us who really think of the subject or those who post controversy see our discussions drag by and if one is paranoid, one would begin to think "Oh no I said something bad about the great leader" 
@desertdarlene (8910)
• United States
9 Nov 08
Hmmm, that's interesting. I've never noticed this. That's something to wonder about, that's for sure.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
10 Nov 08
It does seem strange. I thought that when one wrote a controversial subject, one of the myLot staff started to read the subject and called the others over and said , "hey read this!"
@EAStanley (2688)
• United States
9 Nov 08
I am not sure if I have noticed that or not. But, myLot is often slow for me. That is really weird, though. :( I hope that they are not trying to stop you from posting something controversial. :( That would NOT be a good thing for myLot to do! :( Wow.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
10 Nov 08
I wonder it myself. I think it does, because when I went on mylot this morning because most of the new posts were fluff. The only exciting and interesting posts were the older ones that had got new responses to.
