Every discussion created will have to pass the admin before being released...

I think it would cost to much cash for the company to do 24hrs a day and our share of the profits would suffer! tdemex

I agree that it would be a very large task and not very feasible. I also think that there would be other problems with this, too. Perhaps the admins at myLot do not have the same criteria for what we would view as quality that we do. Right now, we have control over what we do and do not think are quality discussions. MyLot only steps in when discussions are violations of the TOS. If they had to decide on every single discussion, though, perhaps they would not think that some of the discussion topics that we enjoy would be quality discussions. Then, we might not have as much variety as we do now, because the discussion might not make it through the screening process. If myLot admins were not going to put any restrictions on the discussions other than that they do not violate TOS, though, then it would be pointless for them to approve them first.

I work in online community management as my profession and I've done so for the past ten years. The type of moderation you are suggesting is normally only in place on sites for children or adolescents. In those types of forums, there is a much greater concern for the safety and privacy of the users. There is also a MUCH lower volume of posting than on a site like myLot where people are hoping to earn for all of their activity. It is generally assumed on sites where adults participate that they are capable of reading and understanding guidelines and contributing appropriately. As others have said in this discussion already, "pre-moderating" content is expensive. I have had very few clients in all of those ten years that were willing to pay for full moderation (meaning every post gets read by a moderator). In most cases, websites combine a word filter with partial moderation and an escalation system (myLot appears to do this). I doubt very much that it would be a cost-effective decision for a site this large to hold every post in a queue pending approval.

First of all that would require a large number of admins and moderators to be 24/7 online to check out all disscusions - first as opening thread, then follow up if have answers .. Then it may come up questioning the subjectivity of those admins, specialy on "hot topics" as politic, religion and so on. As it is now, most of mylot activity is more or less selfregulate itself. Is ok this system admins have create, is optimal. my 2 cents.

hi corry^^;; i have read the above responses and it's true that it's not that feasible at all thinking that there are thousands of discussions being posted each day, not including the responses and comments they get... but it would be great if some atleast some could pass the admin for new discussion as i can see repeated discussions over and over, again and again even by the same person...and some are just changing the title but the whole idea and topic are almost the same. i have seen one poster today which i remember that he/she posted before and now he/she asked/said the same thing again.

it would be A LOT of work for the admin. And certain topics are hot only when they're new. I also have this feeling that with such quality control measures there will be significantly lesser discussion threads in MyLot. MyLot can improve much, but IMHO this is not exactly the best way to go about it.

Hi corry, I agree with you, and I think still administration is deciding the same and removing it if it violates the guidelines. But it may take some time and because of the increasing population some threads are getting skipped and taking time to remove it. I understand your point, may be you are thinking that after posting it, we need the approval, isn’t it, I think it is a good idea, because we won’t lost points after making our posts by taking time etc. But the problem is in the practical side, let the admin think about the same.

I appreciate your idea but I doubt it would be feasible. For a start admin would need a lot more people to keep up with the number of discussions posted every day and everything would be delayed, we would have to wait for our discussion to come up and therefore the interactions and the earnings would be delayed. I also think it would be a rather expensive exercise for MyLot which would result in fewer earnings for us. I think it is better for us all to work together and keep an eye on violations ourselves and report them accordingly.

I wouldn't like that idea at all, as we would have to wait before we got our earnings, as it would take way to long, and I think that mylot would suffer seriously if the admins were to do that. However, I don't think, they would ever do that, as mylot would possibly lose users, and that wouldn't be good either. I like things the way they are, and I hope it stays that way. I think we all like things the way they are, where every 24 hours we can see what we made the day before. It really makes no sense for them to ever change their ideas and go along with what we are discussing. I do enjoy mylot very much, and I intend to stay here for as long as I can. Good luck to you and happy mylotting.