Ditto, Ditto, Ditto...
By twoey68
@twoey68 (13627)
United States
July 16, 2009 11:20am CST
Ok, I started three discussions this morning and when I went back to read through the responses, I noticed one member had put the exact same response to every discussion. I then went to their profile and low and behold there was a list of discussions they’d responded to all with the exact same response. Why do some ppl waste everyone’s time trying to cheat the system here at MyLot? I contacted MyLot and let them know and asked them to remove the three responses from my discussions b/c I don’t feel ppl should get paid to cheat. It really is sad that someone will cheat just to make a couple extra pennies.
Have you ever caught someone cheating? Have you turned it in? Do you notice if someone pastes the same response over and over?
[b]**AT PEACE WITHIN**
~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~[/b]
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57 responses
@wonttakelong (3555)
• United States
16 Jul 09
I always report cheaters
I cant just sit back and do nothing and let them take over this site
I am on my way right now to track down this cheater of yours so I can report them too.
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@wonttakelong (3555)
• United States
16 Jul 09
well its about time they wake up and take care of cheaters!
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@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
16 Jul 09
I have seen that thing happen before. That person responded to all discussions with the same words. It was quite sometime ago and he is no longer a member. I think mylot admin must have banned him for spamming. Now in my recent discussion someone responded by putting in a long line of punctuations which resulted the lose of a page of responses as it affects the whole page. I have reported to mylot to ask them to remove that one particular response but it seems they have not done anything to rectify the problem.
@beautyqueen26 (16030)
• United States
18 Jul 09
Hey Zandi! Please send me a link by pm to the page
you are talking about with the excessive punctuation
and I will go request that Mylot remove
the offending comment from your page.
Sometimes, it takes more than one member
reporting a problem before they take care of an
issue.
@ElicBxn (63594)
• United States
17 Jul 09
early on, I had someone respond to my discussion in some language other than English - I kid you NOT, it was absolute gibberish, not even a language I might pic a few words out of
I wrote mylot staff and this post (and all their other posts) were removed - and so was the person....
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@tjades (3591)
• Jamaica
18 Jul 09
I have never encountered this except for once when someone double pasted the same response in my discussion. It never bothered me as I figured it was a genuine mistake I do believe the person apologised. That is the closest irregularity I can remember.
I even went back to respond to a mylotter's discussion only to find that I had double pasted. I have absoluttely no idea how that happened. I later saw another mylotter commenting that his response was double pasted so it seemed as if mylot was acting up again.
This of does not seem to be what happened to the mylotter you mentioned here. It sounds as if that was a deliberate attempt to deceive.
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@mythmanpc (15)
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18 Jul 09
You know, it kind of reminds me of that part in "The Catcher in the Rye", where he talks about the graffiti. Yeah, i turn in cheaters whenever I see them. It's sad to see a person ruining a nice community like this by spamming to make money.
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@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
16 Jul 09
You did the correct thing by reporting the person as what they did was an infringement of the myLot guidelines. Under discussions "Donts" it says Dont •Post similar or identical postings. Stealing posts from other users or posting the same thing over and over again will not help your myLot earnings. Multiple identical postings, even if legitimate, may be considered spam.
I would certainly have reported such responses.
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@AmbiePam (92719)
• United States
16 Jul 09
I don't think they'll be getting paid much at all. A lot of people will probably report them and their answers will be deleted. I don't know who you're talking about, but if I came across that I'd probably roll my eyes at it too. They'll learn pretty quickly they aren't going to make much here.
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@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
16 Jul 09
If I see them I report them.
I guess that's the one that was pointed out earlier in a discussion and there were loads and loads of discussions all with the same response copied from one to the other.
They are all gone now 
Time wasters those are - both their own time, those that have to report them and those that have to clean up after them too 
Time wasters those are - both their own time, those that have to report them and those that have to clean up after them too 1 person likes this
@thebeaddoodler (4262)
• Lubbock, Texas
16 Jul 09
Good for you! and I see myLot's already taken care of it. It's really sad when people do things like that for a few pennies. I haven't seen any such cheaters on myLot, but noticed some on Red Gage had gotten the boot for making single word comments like "wonderful" or "beautiful" on multiple articles and pictures.
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
16 Jul 09
tHAT'S SURE NOT THE REASON TO BE ON MYLOT, IS IT? i DON'T CARE FOR GREEDY OR CHEATING PEOPLE. I have noticed people doing that or answering w/emotions. I try to answer all the discussions w/a reasonable answer.
@dreamweaverjan (3471)
• United States
16 Jul 09
HI Twoey: You Go Girl!!
I would report them too for doing that...stupid moron!!!
nothing surprises me anymore as to what goes on here or I guess
on other sites too...really sad;
But I loved your topic line..."ditto, ditto, ditto"...LOL!
It caught my eye!!
I would report them too for doing that...stupid moron!!!
nothing surprises me anymore as to what goes on here or I guess
on other sites too...really sad;
But I loved your topic line..."ditto, ditto, ditto"...LOL!
It caught my eye!!
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@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
16 Jul 09
This is really awful of them. How could they even think of doing that? No, I have never caught anyone cheating but to be honest, it could be staring me in the face and I would not notice as I am not very observant. would I turn them in? Yes, I would because this is not what Mylot stands for - at least in my opinion. They are not participating in any meaningful way to a discussion. I definitely woulld have reported them too. Blessings
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@danishcanadian (28953)
• Canada
11 Aug 09
On Gather.com, another site where I often participate, they do the same thing. We call them "genaric comments." Something like "lots of things to do, no time to stop and read, but just wanted to come in and say hi anyway" or something. Since Gather allows HTML in comments, unlike MyLot, there are loads of glitzy graphics, and such. Some people have nothing better to do. I don't respond to a comment unless I have something to say.
@unusualsuspect (2602)
• United States
16 Jul 09
I haven't see that kind of cheating on Mylot, but there's certainly all kinds. I'm glad they took the comments off your discussions. I didn't even think they would bother with that kind of thing. I hope that they also deleted that member's account. I don't know whether the person was new here, but I don't think it matters much if they were. They obviously thought they could take the easy way to make money, and it didn't work.
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@dloveli (4366)
• United States
17 Jul 09
THere seems to be alot of dishonesty going on lately on this site. I have been on here for two years at least and have never faced any of these issues until recently. No one should be able to cheat anyone. THe sad part is that person must think we are idiots and wouldnt notice the same responses. Shame on HIM! HAHA THEY'LL get what they DESERVE. Thanks for sharing. dl
@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
16 Jul 09
I've never noticed anyone doing that, but I don't start many discussions and am mostly a responder. That person is defeating the whole purpose of discussing things.
About the only thing I turn in is people posting referral links--but not before I call them a selfish idiot and tell them I hope they're satisfied that now the discussion might be deleted and they robbed everyone of their earnings.
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@jessi0887 (2788)
• United States
16 Jul 09
I never have caught anyone cheating. I never really pay close attention though. I would report though because alot of us put our honest input on here.
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