Members disapearing

I think what people are failing to realize is just how expensive it is to keep 'active' pages on a database, and pages of profiles and their attending pages. A website that has over a million and a half 'registered' users needs occasionally to drop from their database the profiles and pages of non-active users and those that have been banned. So to see 200, 80, or 40 accounts disappear at a time is just a drop in the bucket really against the numbers of users that are no longer active for what ever reason. It's not like you can't re-sign up, even if you've been banned. Perhaps some active users have been caught up in the purge, but mylot is not famous for the total effectiveness of all their algorythims and a little patience is in order to give them time to work out all the bugs.....

I think they are just cleaning up the inactive accounts. I know I have some friends on my list that haven't been active for the last three months and some even longer, so I think mylot is deleting their accounts. I think this is a good idea so we get a better understanding of how many members are actually here still. I know I respond to some discussions sometimes and then go into the person's profile to see they haven't been logged in for the last 6 months. Their discussions still float around and people can still respond to them, but they are inactive so they probably don't recieve any earnings for them. I think a lot of people forget about the site and have been a member since day one, two years ago, and will probably never be back so why not get rid of them totally. Alrighty then, talk to you later my friend, Have a good mylotting day, Chris

I've heard a few members say their accounts have been inactive and then a few days later reactivated. But there's a catch, they've lost their earnings, not all of it but most of it... I wonder why?!? Sounds fishy to me.

I guess there are many who are have legitimate accounts in the same household who are probably having to pay the consequences if myLot are cleaning up after those who are also cheating, and probably referring themselves too. There have been many sites that have had problems with cheaters recently and it is akways the honest members who come off worst. I noticed yesterday that the population was increasing at an amazing rate and I was doubtful that suddenly all those were really new members in the true sense of the word. I hope that myLot will be able to stay above these and other problems caused by cheating and that they will never have to 'shut up the shop' as other sites have done.

I sure hope I'm not one of those members that get deleted. I haven't broken any mylot rules at all but there are times in a week, where I have no time to write but when I get back to it I try to do some catching up here. Working a full time job takes time away from being online for me but on my days off I always spend spare time here.

Well, without knowing what they're doing and why, it's hard to say. They may just be weeding out inactive accounts.

I think myLot is probably just getting rid of those members that do not adhere to the guidelines and continually break the rules. Also, if they don't have a legitimate paypal account they can be deleted from the system. This is only my guess as to why mylot would be "weeding out" certain members. I don't think we have anything to worry about if we are sticking to the guidelines.

Unless there is a post from myLot admin, then we are just speculating on the reasons why this is happening. I know that I have been a member for about 3 years now but also inactive for a lot of that time. Or should I say that I have been active from time to time with maybe making only a few posts, then work etc intervenes and I do not get back for ages. There are many forums/sites which pay members however they only allow one member per IP/ISP. If more than one member per household wants to be a member, they need special permission to do so and also many rules are laid down. It could be that myLot is going down the same track but of course that is only speculation on my part and is not based on actual knowledge of what is happening. Someone commented that myLot admin would know whether it was the same person by the way the posts are written. That is not strictly true because often when people have been together for a long time, they think and talk the same way so why should their writing styles be any different. It is interesting to note that some of those who appear to have been banned or their discussions deleted or whatever, are actually back as members. That alone indicates that myLot are not deleting on the basis of common or shared IP/ISP or else how would those members be allowed to rejoin and post? The other thing is that many people join myLot, make a few posts and do not make the money that they expect. Some of them have not been active since a few days after they joined, so why keep them active. It makes no sense to do so.

I guess no one can 100% comment on if they are doiing the right then when we dont know if they are banning just anyone or banning people who are actually doing something wrong! With such a huge population on mylot I dont really think a 40 decrease is that much!

I didn't even notice this. I have heard of some other sites that delete members who aren't active enough. Maybe that is what Mylot is doing.

There is alot of weird goings ons on this site right now. If you look at the amount of members now it is 159,851 right now. It changes all the time. Mylot has a right to ban anyone of whom they feel is being a problem or that is not following the guidelines. If these people don't want to go by the rules they should start their own site and go by their own rules that they set down. I think Mylot is doing a good thing to get rid of the ones who cause problems and could eventually cause big problems for the rest of us. I really makes me wonder why these people find it so hard to just go by the rules. Rules and laws are made for a reason. They aren't made to cause people to have reason to moan and go on about how unfair it is or anything. It is so the majority can more easily navigate around in peace and harmony and enjoy themselves on here.

Upon checking, mylot population now is 159,812. Do you think people with the same IP address were also banned? Does Mylot require a unique IP address as well? I'm just curious because not all members here have their own computers if that would be the case, others may have joined here through an internet cafe and who knows a lot of people from a certain internet cafe are also members here.

I thought that I read that they were only getting rid of inactive accounts?

Well, I just hope someone could answer all our questions about what is really happening to mylot. We all do not want to loose our friends, earnings, and our time be wasted.

Hi Strawberry, I will not put what I think lol as it would not go down well To many of my good Friends have left or been banned here for no reason, as far as I will say in the 3 Years I have been here this Site seems to be a Troll Site now as they are free on here The People that had been here as long as me and that helped to get the Site up and running have either left or been banned because of Trolls That is all I will say I am not here much any more either and I used to love this Site but looking at the Numbers now it has gone from 159,827 to 159,891 since you wrote this Discussion

Could it be as simple as members quitting? It doesn't make sense to ban members unless it's spammy ones that join to be a pain in the neck all over the site. Keep watching the numbers and see if it's a steady decline

Do you know how many members are there with few posts and that have been here for years. In my friends list I had about 30 that had under 100 posts and have been members for years and have not loged in for most of that time. I have referals that just came loged in 1 and that was it. I dont think that mylot is doing anything wrong right now as I dont know of anyone who was delited and didnt deserve that.

I am not sure what's going on here about the post count, when I looke it was 159,850... I'm Sure mylot is watching out for their guidelines though.

I haven't noticed a drastic change in mylot population but if something like this is happening , its not good because throwing out legit members will lead to a loss of some great members and a passive mylot network ...which might decrease its popularity or gain ill fame...

i really have no idea about. i think mylot should list the members and the reason why they weed them out. i hope mylot do have reasons to do so . many fake sites cancel their members with no excuse. happy mylotting! thank you for telling us !