I just lost 25 post points in one hit and I've never been happier!

I was wondering why your points were getting smaller and smaller since we were about the same..Love it! we all need to do what you are doing and help this site..who cares about points..you can always make them back up.. You are a hero to me!!! I've helped a few people out when they were being trolled and lost points, but no where near what happened to you..

Hi, I'm new to mylot and I must say, Thank you x

I haven't run across anything/one like that yet. But I tip my hat to you for doing what you did. If I had the time I would do the same.

i cant believe you did that i wouldnt have the time or the effort to do that, but i guess some one has to!! i think we all should say thank you lol

Hi James72, and thank you for being honest. I don't know exactly how you catch cheaters, but if I did run into any, I would tell, even if I lost a little money in the process. It's one thing to make money, it's another to make it dishonestly. However, don't you think they would have found them anyway? So what, they copied and pasted the same material in a lot of discussions? Is that what they did?

wait you mean our points are supposed to go up and stay there? LOL I am not even watching my points i am too busy watching trolls

I have always done that. For some petty cents I cannot compromise with my beliefs, can I? This has cost me many cents, some scathing censures and not to mention a few discussion deletion. And to top that, I knew exactly who did it! Sometimes I just pity them, poor vindictive souls! And James, I have made it not to abuse the system repeatedly but people are there who will do it anyway. I know you are not the kind who would bother too much about the number of posts and cents. Just stand by your values like you always have. Smiles your way....

it is really important that we undertake the step that you went through, james. i did it once years ago here in mylot. however, i didn't go to such length as telling the guy that i have reported her/him to the admin. i believe that there used to be so many of them in the community then who were into this kind of thing. thus, those who had responded to their discussions suffer the loss of so many points. it is very disheartening since we spent much honest effort to come up with every single point added to our credit. it is good that you have uncovered those cheaters in the community. now, i am thinking if there are some ways wherein you can give us a hint as to who these people are so we can avoid responding to their discussions.

Good for you sweetheart! I have lost many, many points over the years in this way and have never regretted it! Nowadays I am likely to report them but not tell them every time - not so I don't lose points or anything but because I feel it is a waste of time - they probably do not even read the responses to what they have left so best to tell them once, report it and then move on! xxx

Well done James! It spurs others on to do likewise I'm sure as they know they are not alone in chasing the damn cheaters off. I saw you had assistance too and, by chance, I found yet one more by the same idiot and reported it too. I did not make my presence known then but I will be doing so later - I've just reported yet another and this one has not even 100 by his name yet! and one this morning who has tons of posts all plagiarised If only there were more people who realise it is not wrong to report the offenders. If they are allowed to stay it will be the honest members who will suffer in the long run. Hats off to you James!!!

Well done. I do not like cheaters either and I think you were good to devote your time to this person. I used to not want to do anything that would affect either my points or my reputation but then I realised that I was not being myself. I admit that I get upset sometimes when I do lose points if I have been careful to avoid topics that I was sure would get deleted but I have gotten over that. The same with the little blue star I once had I do get concerned a little if it goes down too much but I know if I am true to myself and say something controversial then I will lose both. At the moment I am not spending as much time here as I need a break and only have so much time and energy to do the stuff I need to do and mylot has had to go on to the end of the list for a change. It used to be the first thing I did and so nothing else every got done so now it is on the end of the list and so sometimes I do not get time to spend here.

So you are the batman of mylot, aren't you ? Bet every time you caught the guy cheating, you'd be saying "AHA !!! Gotcha !!!" Well i haven't got a chance to see cheater yet or maybe I've gone by him, but just didn't recognize his work ... But if I would, promise I'd play robin !

Points? What are they anyway? Doing the right thing, even at a loss, is still the right thing. And cheaters stink.

Is that the guy who said that something felt down on his keyboard and the keyboard just could not stop writting by herself? =)))

I don't know if I would follow them around or anything but I would report it to administrators. It might take awhile but they eventually get to it. I won't lie I am to chicken to actually do that because I have heard they are trolls on here and I sure wouldn't want to sic in on myself..

I have done so aswell, James, and sometimes the consequences aren't fun. For instance I was got it into my head that posting parts of the bible as discussions isn't making a real discussion. I asked the person to at least post a question with it and not plain pieces of the bible because that's not what mylot is intended for. Man, I tell you, she wasn't pleased of me telling that! I don't mind people talking about faith or religion, please do it intrigues me, but be open for discussion because mylot is all about that. If you don't want a discussion on something, don't post it. Simple as that. I am not sure whether or not I lost points, but I think my final answer 'please consider that this might look like you are trying to make a quick buck of the bible, because you don't take the effort to make it a discussion' did shake up the whole thing. I don't regret it, I believe it was the right thing to do. People would do it when someone copies any other book, so why not do it when someone does this with the bible?

Depends. If it's something that really bugs me, I would report it and not bother too much about my points. But if it's something I feel is better to ignore, I would ignore it....not for the fear of losing my points but because I feel it's not worth wasting my time and energy on (typing does use energy)

I just encountered one today, I just don't know what to do with it.

Just found this discussion, but I remember that repeating person, it was really weird. Well done for getting rid. I've never done something that major where I chased a wrongdoer right away from here, but I do sometimes join discussions that I know will be deleted, just to tell the person that their discussion will be probably be deleted as you're not allowed to post referral links/talk about earnings/racially abuse people etc. etc.. It's better that they know, rather than have it happen to them again and again. Happy myLotting!

Hello James72! I am very happy to see that you did such a good thing to our community. I guess that one must be very stupid, or to had suffered a serious head trauma and not to think that if you cheat by copy-pasting nonsense and obviously get caught you loose all credit and the community will look at you as a leper :) P.S Where is your sheriff star? i want to see it shining, understood :P? great job!