Confused about myLot.....Aren't you??

Hi sweetie! Oh yes. It was rather overwhelming I think. There was so much to do and I didn't know where to start! But I'm one of those people who learn best by doing so I just dove right in. I read the terms and guidelines (some of it went over my head the first time I read them) and jumped right into commenting on stuff. I picked up rather quickly but I'm still learning little tips and tricks along the way. I can easily see how any new person can be lost around here. Which is why I try to help out when I can :)

You are doing great now cloud! Thought that takes quite a bit of experience, wisdom and knowledge. It's the perseverance to keep on going is what I've noticed in you. And that's great! You made it so easy.

It can be confusing. The emoticons are on the left under mylot code. Im not very computer literate myself. All I do is learn by experience and error. It'll come. Now its 3 years later and I cant believe the problem solving skills I have regarding the computer. You dont even realize the knowledge you take one. After a while it will come second nature. MyLot makes me crazy sometimes! I still dont know what blogging is and how you do it. lol Little by little it will come my friend. If you get flustered or irritated, remember you are not the only one. dl

hi cloud, i guess most of us have been confused when we are just starting here. like me, when i am just starting i have so many questions on my mind, like where did they get those smileys, how they were able to quote others, to make bold or italicize their words..blah blah... hehe i don't read the FAQ that much before and i just depend on reading the discussions on mylot interest and from there i was able to learn. and from there i was also able to familiarize myself with the site and i'm really thankful to those mylotters who have helped me a lot here...

I was also confused about the Smileys. I admit I was a little confused about some things also, especially with the two "discussions" things. Now I know that one of the "discussion" links is for myLot search.

Thanks coud31. I have a question. I'm new to MyLot. I just wanna know, How can I start a discussion and how can I put up a profile picture?

Lol Cloud when I first joined 4 1/2 years ago the Site was quite basic so it was not to hard to get used to it but I have to say it has added so many Features now if I joined it now yes it would be very confusing to me to lol

Hi cloud, from what you have described above obvious that you are very much better as I was when I was a newbie here years ago I was invited to sign up as myLot member and the sponsor did everything for me after getting my particular. To me that time myLot site was exactly a huge jungle and I lost my way while exploring without anyone to guide me. So I was not active at the beginning. I didn't know what to cope with once logged in this site as there were so many activities available here. My sponsor was a really nice and caring guy. He would explained patiently to me whenever I passed any question to him. After some time I then knew roughly how it worked here. I learnt a lot from the guidelines as well as the FAQs here gradually. That time I felt really scared that my new discussion would end up with zero responses every time I was nervous as well as tense whenever I had posted a new topic... Happy posting

Like you I am also confused. Even now all I do is to comment on topics discussed. I dont even change my avatar and there are so many things that I cant do. All I know is how to comments on issues sent to me.

I think that most people that come to mylot are confused at first. I was confused by things, but I had lots of friendly people that helped me through the confusion and that was nice Too often I think that people forget that they were once new to this site, or any other site, and are not helpful to newbies and that's a shame. It takes the same amount of time to help a new user as it does to make fun of them or get angry at them so you might as well be helpful

Everyone passed through the same stage. The only difference is we are more comfortable in this site like this is our own. We feel more at ease and no longer have to feel hesitant to post to discussions we are comfortable posting in. But being a veteran doesn't mean you are can't make mistakes because there are still a lot whose discussions got deleted due to violations. .

as long as the opportunity to eArn some dollars...

until now, my dear friend, there are a lot things that tend to raise an eyebrow. but still, there are more likable things in mylot than questionable ones. it's not the money of course... and that's the only one that is least confusing...

Me too, I was confused, so last time I wrote a topic that "how to visit a friend here?". It was you help me, thanks again. And now I have know most of features of pages, but it was false when I tried to open my own blogs, when I fulfill the informaion, then erro came out.

OH there are things I still don't know how to do, but they are things I don't really care to learn, like customizing my profile, for example.

Yes, I was very confused when I first started here. I am still confused now! Especially because many of my posts keep getting deleted as being poll-type questions, but I see many other people asking the same kinds of questions. I don't they're poll type questions at all. This has just started happening recently, so maybe they changed the rules. I don't know... but it is confusing.

very reasonable if confused. because we must learn first. I am also very confused when joined with Mylot. I do not know, what should I do. I am trying to learn slowly. so now I'm already familiar with Mylot. although not yet fully understood, but I was comfortable using Mylot.

Hello cloud31, Yes, I was confused too. It took me like a month to understand everyhting or at least the basics. It took me a while to understand the stars and ratio insise if you put your cousor over it it would say 80/100 etc... whehter tags help the response or not. I still use tags. I tried the task did like 4 got paid for two because I messed up on the others. The other part is looking for previous post about a subject or interest like writing you cannot put in the search because it take you out into Yahoo and looks for it there. Have to scroll through my insterest which are not alphabetical can take a while to find the topic to discuss etc... Thanks and have a great day Sincerley Unique16

good you asked because I am still very confused with mylot! I think the FAQ needs to be revised or there should be a section for new users. It seems they expect us to explore by ourselves. Not sure if that is a good or bad thing. Anyway cloud31 I can always run to you with my questions :)

Ive been here for just 3 dyas. Its really confusing.