Your suggestions to improve myLot.....
By mimpi
@mimpi1911 (25464)
India
December 6, 2008 2:52am CST
Now, a lot has been said and done about this place but with time our ideas grow and we think better. So, I am asking here for your unique ideas to upgrade myLot. It can be anything that you want to add or eliminate. Any new feature that you think would enhance the interactivity and fondness of the forum.
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Happy myLotting.[/u]
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20 responses
@dpk262006 (58676)
• Delhi, India
6 Dec 08
Riya, you have given a good suggestion. I second your suggestion. May mylot people take note of our request.
Congrats on completion of 6900 posts, you are inching closer to 7000 mark.
@SaintAnne (5453)
• United States
6 Dec 08
Definitely a good one, riyasam... that and then also the option of being "invisible" if the myLotter does not want others to know he or she is online.
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@dpk262006 (58676)
• Delhi, India
6 Dec 08
Good Post! One of my suggestion is - sometimes we inadvertently respond to a post for the second time, not remembering that we had responded it earlier. If we, inadvertently are going to post a response to a discussion for the second time, there should be a system or a mini window to warn as that we have already posted a response to the said discussion.
(ii) Also, if our posts are deleted in due course of time, we should be sent an email notification that our such number of posts have been deleted, so we could come to know that there is actual reduction due to deletion of posts.
(iii) There should be an option to spell check, in my hurry to post a response, I many times commit silly mistakes, which could be avoided, if there is 'spell check' option.
Have a great Evening!!
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@dpk262006 (58676)
• Delhi, India
6 Dec 08
Savak, You are very much right in your assessment and indeed you have given a very good suggestion. This thing happens with me quite often, when I am typing my response or about to submit my long drafted response, suddenly the internet connection goes off and everythings gets losts (I mean you cannot gather your same thoughts again and again). I endorse and second your suggestion - there must be a option to 'save' the response, in case of some technical difficulty.
Thanks for seconding my suggestions.
@savak03 (6684)
• United States
6 Dec 08
I second your suggestions and would add just a little bit to your first one. Sometimes I lose my internet connection just when I hit the post button. When I get reconnected I try to send my post through only to find that it had actually went the first time. Now there are two comments under the same discussion. It would be good if there was some way we could pull that second post back off.
@balasri (26537)
• India
6 Dec 08
The number one thing is Mylot can do something about getting the pages loaded up fast. It’s population has grown to a very big level now.
They can always select the best discussion of the month and give 10$ to it to encourage more quality discussions.
Mylot must find a way to nab and kill the trolls.
Mylot must act on the discussion stealers and cheats too.
That’s all that came to my mind now.
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@drannhh (15219)
• United States
7 Dec 08
Of course I love myLot just as it is. If this is a wish list, however, here are some items:
I'd really like to be able to put personal notes on our friend list that would be private, so that I could list things for my own reference such as the person's birthday, name of spouse or other friends, relationships between members (such as Sue doesn't like Marge or Bill and George are friends or Jill quite smoking in March). If that is too much trouble, at least it would be nice to sort our friend list in various ways and be able to search for the profiles of friends without having to memorize their screen names.
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@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
12 Dec 08
Those are great suggestions! Adding personal notes would be much fun and so would the notification thing. It would save a lot of time. But I think there are more glitches to be fixed in the first place. Like never got any notification whatsoever - what as to that!
@SaintAnne (5453)
• United States
8 Dec 08
Personal notes like Saintanne going to Big Lots today after work to check out the aerogarden but it wasn't there and ended up getting into a short sassy back-and-forth with another lady waiting in line.
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@bjcyrix (6901)
• Philippines
10 Dec 08
Hi mimpi!^_^
Well, I have wondered where the "news" section went. With the old layout it was I think below the weather forecast and above the blogs on our mylot homepages. I used to post comments on an article there and I found it quite informative since I dont get to read the newspaper anymore. I post there when Im done with all my friends' discussions and if I didnt find anything interesting in other sections.
So a few weeks ago, I was able to clean out my inbox and responded to friends discussions that I havent responded to yet as well as the comments that I got from my responses. I wanted to myLot a bit more but the discussions didnt compel me to respond to them so I looked for the news section. But I couldnt find it.
Im suggesting that they bring it back or something. It would make myLot more of a one-stop site. Thats just what I think though.^_^
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
10 Dec 08
Even though, I had been little utilised that section but now that you have mentioned, I do feel that it could have been there. Just as another feature to strengthen this forum.
Thanks.
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@gjabaigar (2200)
• Philippines
7 Dec 08
I know we have that population stats.
I want also to know the discussions stats.
Like, how many discussions already been made so far?
How many are similar discussions?
Where the discussions came from? and from what country? and so on. . . . . .
And also where some of the solved or closed discussions?
Tnx a lot . . . . ^_^
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
7 Dec 08
This is a good suggestion. Even though after posting our discussion with get a list of similar discussions started so far but that's on basis of tags which could mislead in many occasions. About how many discussions made so far, it's bit difficult for the discussions keep getting deleted. But they can give an idea like they do in case of mylot population.
And instead of 2-3 months, they can give an exact date. It gets easier for us.
Thanks a lot of your response.
@saivenkaat802003 (4823)
• India
7 Dec 08
It can be anything that you want to add or eliminate
Add: Some good friends like the author of the discussion
Eliminate : Yours truly
It is the fine thing to upgrade mylot.
@williamjisir (22819)
• China
6 Dec 08
Hello mimpi. I would like to suggest that mylot send us an email notification when one of our responses were deleted so that we get to know in the first place, because there are some times when I saw my posts deducted, but I have no idea what responses or discussions were deleted, however much I consider myself to be careful enough not to respond to discussions that will get eventually deleted. But however careful I have been, still lots of the responses I have made got deleted and I would like to get a notification from mylot about which discussions have been deleted. That would be greatly appreciated if we got notified about it. Thank you for the discussion, mimpi.
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@ThePaintGuru (541)
• United States
7 Dec 08
I asked for this before, but mylot should put that "tag this discussion" box on the same page where you write your discussion/response/comment. I have fiber optic internet and pages still take about 3 seconds to load here on mylot, so by the time the tag page is loaded I'm so annoyed with waiting to submit my post I never tag. I'd do it a lot more and things would run a lot smoother around there with this little change, plus it would reduce server load. I hope someone at mylot is reading this :).
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
12 Dec 08
That's one great suggestion I have got. I face this problem a lot of times. Having the TAG button on the same page as the discussion body is a great idea.
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
7 Dec 08
Hi mimipi! I would like mylot to pay more attention to who
and what they are doing! When someone is reported they need
to find a better way of finding out if this person is actually
doing something against the tos or if it is an act to
personally defame someones character or star rating! And when
someone is actually doing something wrong they need to take
action against that individual promptly and if it continues
to be abusive they need to look into the problem and if it
is serious enough then ban them! I don't feel that they are
paying enough attention to what they are doing and they are
deleting discussions from people who are not doing anything
wrong and leaving discussions of people who are downright
abusive!!!
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
12 Dec 08
Opal
I agree to you totally. There are so many loopholes and to top that regular glitches have made this place sometimes annoying. I do not receive any email notification, I do not know why there isn't a sound system on basis of which discussions get deleted, I do no know why my post gets deleted.........i do not so many things!
@CJay77 (4438)
• Australia
7 Dec 08
Hi mimpz! It will be nice if the earning will increased a bit. It will be nice to know also when we lost some posts of which one were deleted, so we can learned from it and try to not respond with the same one again. I know that there is some rules to follow, but sometimes its hard to say because there are some discussion that violated mylot rules, but still stay and receiving a good number of responses. Thanks!
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
8 Dec 08
Yes, those are very important points Cjay. It would be nice if myLot intimates us with the ones being deleted or violated rules. And yes, I came across discussions on couple of occasions which were being deleted even after making it to the HIGHEST RATED DISCUSSION!
@SaintAnne (5453)
• United States
6 Dec 08
You've gotten several suggestions that I agree with, Mou but one that hasn't been mentioned yet is that I always wished that they have an activity box/link where you can add the discussions that you want to go back to over and over again. There are days I find myself responding a LOT and I find myself spending quite a bit of time going back to or searching for a couple or few discussions that I want to engage in rather than just one reply. I hope I made sense on this one.
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
12 Dec 08
1. Activity box is a great idea. I have actually felt similar needs from time to time
2. Customising PHOTO viewing is a great idea and I would be able to post more snaps in that case ensuring privacy.
3. Customising discussions that we start is also another great suggestion that would make the friendship fonder.
@SaintAnne (5453)
• United States
6 Dec 08
And have that option of a "private" personal photo. Like I could choose whoever can see it among my friends' list and not have everyone able to access it at all. Yeah, that!
@SaintAnne (5453)
• United States
8 Dec 08
I thought of another one while on driving back home.
How about posting a discussion for just a few chosen friends on your list?
I was thinking of starting a discussion but it's more private and I don't really want to have everyone being able to read it, just a chosen few and those that I'm really interested to hear from. I know, it could become very "exclusive-ish" or clique-Y but isn't myLot a little bit like that already anyway?
@Roseo8 (2947)
• India
7 Dec 08
Hi Mimpi.....I would very much like mylot to indicate why they are removing our discussions ,so that we will not commit the same mistake again......Their standard comment "this discussion no longer exists due to discussion guide line violation"....does not help us to find out what is the mistake we have made in our discussion...
The day I had started a discussion on "Humour therapy".......Its one of the most innocent and straight forward discussions I have ever started,and there were about 35 responses,and one day it disappeared..I just cannot figure out what guide line I had violated......So it would be nice if mylot does something about this.....
Thanks Mimpi dear,for starting this discussion....
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
12 Dec 08
That's weird!
I feel, the system should be more transparent. The users must be notified as to why and when they violate any rule. In most cases we do not even know what's our fault! I think myLot MUST ensure this in order to keep up its nice face.
I am sorry that your discussion has been removed and I find absolutely no fault in that discussion!
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@alokn99 (5717)
• India
6 Dec 08
As you have rightly said there has been a lot said and done and as much we continue mylotting we get used to the way we go about our methods.
In general i could think of a few enhancements/improvements
1.An option for a spell checker as we keep making a lot of typos.
2. A few more smileys.
3. Increased speed as i do find the site slow at times.
And of course as you had mentioned in one of your ealuier discussions an increased policing of the site to avoid abusive users.
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
7 Dec 08
I appreciate alok.
Sometimes we do get a spell check options but most of the times it doesn't work just as many other features of mylot. Increase in the variety of emoticons is a good idea. I am sure mylot is thinking about it for the introduction of it very recent. Coming to increase in the speed I have mentioned in someone else's discussion that the TAG option could well be on the same page as is the body of the post. That can save time, i guess.
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@ellie333 (21016)
•
6 Dec 08
Hi Mimipi, I think the most important thing to be able to see is the whole discussion when answering from email to read other responses before replying, for example someone may have already sugggested this but I will not know until I post this response. What I also think would be good is if I was emailed when someone added an extra comment after their initial response as they only way to see these is to go into discussion started and see if any discussions have had comments added to. Huggles. Ellie :D
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
12 Dec 08
That would be a good thing Ellie. I do not get any notification so I do not know much about it but by what you mentioned here, it would certainly be a good thing to add.
Huggles.
@jewilim (495)
• Philippines
6 Dec 08
I think it would be a good idea for mylot to have a little forum for new members who are still new with the site to explore the site. I think a little chatroom would also be nice for mylotters from around the world to interact. But i think adding those new features would slow down the loading of the site.
Anyways it would also be nice if we could have a little activity box where we could be noted if we have new replies to our discussions or posts. Sometimes i find it hard to look for new replies to my comments because there is no way of knowing if there are replies unless we check all our posts individually. I think mylot could still do a little upgrade to the design of the site and add little more features to make it better than usual.
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
12 Dec 08
Hi Jewilim!
Thanks for your relevant suggestions, I really appreciate. Here are my views.
1. Chatroom sounds good but don't you think, we woud end up there more than mylotting and in the process the essence of the place would be lost somewhere.
2. Activity box is a good suggestion. This would be helpful. But I guess, we get notifications on our mailbox that pretty much serves the same.
3. As to the design of the site there is a lot has to improved. Firstly mylot goes through a lot of glitches that has to be fixed first and then the look of the page including simplifying profile updates.
Thanks a lot for you response.
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@cybersoft01 (1284)
• India
6 Dec 08
Are you one of the admins at mylot? Well, I like almost everything in mylot but there are a few features that I miss in it.
1 Number of online users not shown
2 We can not edit our messages.
3 We can not delete our messages.
4 Admin does not furnish Who violated What TOS if they delete our discussion.
I hope they will take necessary steps to improve it even more,
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
7 Dec 08
I am not from the admin but a senior member here.
as to your suggestions:
online notifications is a great idea
I think we get to edit and delete the PMs
as to deletion of our discussions, we have been airing the same for long.
Thanks for your good suggestions.
Happy mylotting.
@antioxidant (438)
• Australia
6 Dec 08
Earnings improvement first thing! And maybe some sort of background colour. Mylot should also add more variety of emoticons to make things more interesting. And i don't like how interests are added, they're too messy and randomised. But overall it seems they've put in much thought to how this site is set up.
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
7 Dec 08
I think you are right. Even i had initial days of confusion during adding interests. adding on to the variety of emoticons is a great idea.