&quot;why was it deleted? I just wanted to share my 10000 points?&quot;

@Hatley (163776)

• Garden Grove, California

14 Aug 10

hi edwardjoy that was only because I was forceably resigned from the library where I had worked for 23 years. I had all the time in the world, no job, no every other week pay check. so I founr mylot just by accident, signed up, found I was having tosns of fun, and making some real friendships. earning and learning, and enjoying my days again. So I have been here for three years, plus the 11 months when my private life was shot all to hell.lol

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carmelanirel

@carmelanirel (20942)

• United States

14 Aug 10

I don't know Hatley, unless we sic Mykl on them...

Seriously he does explain of the guidelines in a simple way, with all those bold words how can you NOT understand???

Oh I got an idea!!!! Before anyone is allowed to sign up, they have type the guidelines down..They can do this by mylot providing all the rules on a page that you can't copy and paste, (Some sites have them, you can't copy and paste some of their site) So they type up the rules and send it to mylot where their profile can be confirmed..Then, if they break the rules, they are shut out of mylot until they again, type up the rules and send to mylot.. I wonder if that is even possible? Of course that means everyone takes a change of getting their page shut down, but isn't it worth it to stop all these bad posts???

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@GardenGerty (160978)

• United States

15 Aug 10

I will not break the rules, I will not break the rules, I will not break the rules, I will not break, the rules. Remember having to write sentences in grade school as punishment?

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carmelanirel

@carmelanirel (20942)

• United States

14 Aug 10

Sooooo, is this going to be a suggestion to mylot next???

I know what you mean hatley, and sometimes I dummy out and reply not thinking that "Hey, this is probably going to get deleted"

So if we can control them better by making them work at following the rules, then you and I won't loss out, at least not as much...

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@Hatley (163776)

• Garden Grove, California

14 Aug 10

hi carmelanirel think thats a great idea andyes it would be worth it if it would stop the deleted posts, and me losing earnings cause I am dumb enough to care and try to help, only just to lose my own earnings. I like to type myself and am getting faster at it if only I would not hit the wrong keys. Yes MyKl__J has made a lot of great discussions on the rules yet somehow they keep coming up with the goal posts. I know its human enough to want to brag but still its a no no.

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Gabs

@gabs8513 (48686)

• United Kingdom

14 Aug 10

Hi Sweetie No matter how much they get told they will still do it well most of them anyway You could put it in big Letters across their Screen they will still post it and hope they will get away with it and that is with any of the rules, they will try it over and over

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Gabs

@gabs8513 (48686)

• United Kingdom

14 Aug 10

Well Sweetie I hope that taught him a Lesson Gissi is doing so much better and Zero is being so good with Gissi to I think he senses that Gissi is not 100% as for me well I might be able to give more information in about Month after I have seen my Consultant but at the moment they are talking about Lung Surgery, scary hey, lol Love you Sweetie

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@GardenGerty (160978)

• United States

15 Aug 10

That was a funny story, Hatley, and would probably make a good discussion. I think it is important that we all have fun here while we post.

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@Hatley (163776)

• Garden Grove, California

14 Aug 10

hi gabs how are you and Gissi,better I hope. yes you are so right and just now I remembered my dad, the town doctor, who disliked road signs telling him to detour or road closed. He was one of the most stubborn men I know so we were on a family vacation and driving through Nevada. He completely ignored

this sign Detour and drove right on past, and wham the bridge was out and our car was stuck on an outcrppping of bedrock. He could not move it. So he had to get back up on the real road, flagg down a motorist and get to the nearest service station with a tow truck.This cost him a ton of money as the car had to be winched off the outcropping then lifted to solid ground. Meantime we all got to ride in this tow truck . He had to pay for a small crane's use plus the tow truck plus damage to the undercarriage of our car. lol lol ;lol.

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@GardenGerty (160978)

• United States

14 Aug 10

I do not know what to say. I think they bring bad habits with them from other sites and they assume that the same game plan works here as well. If they get burnt often enough, maybe they will learn. Or they will need to find another, more subtle way of sharing. Like, "I have done this and that and the other thing but for all of my 10,000 points I have earned it had to be the first 1000 that made me the most proud. what have you been proud of on this site?" Silly, I am sure, but I bet it would have stayed up.

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@Hatley (163776)

• Garden Grove, California

15 Aug 10

hi gardengerty you know there are ways to work food into a discussion without actually making a recipe, so I guess you could sort of brag about a milestone if it was buried in the discussion some way. I just never cared that much about my own as you do not actually make anything extra for the goals and your rep you do, I just wish mine would move up so I could have a blue star for even a few weeks. lol.

vijayanths

@vijayanths (7877)

• India

14 Aug 10

hatley, most of us don't read the terms. So it's quite common that people are not aware of the rules. They will learn from experience like deletion of discussion. You are a rare member who reads the rules perfectly,

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vijayanths

@vijayanths (7877)

• India

15 Aug 10

Let us think practically Hatley. Most of the members join too many sites. They never are sure which site is legit and which one is scam. They are used to think most of the sites are scam. So when they join a site they simply join without reading terms. But when there is a need they learn and understand the rules, this is my opinion..

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@Hatley (163776)

• Garden Grove, California

17 Sep 10

hi vijayanths yes I am sure that is a factor too but still why not do as one does in geting something unassembled., surely they would not throw the instructions and just put it together any old way or would they? the thing is too manycome here, do not learn any of the rules, get all their discussions deleted , make no money and leave saying Mylot is a scam,. I have seen some websites run by some of these newbies who never even trie d to read the info and they are saying mylot does not pay and is a scam.This really is not true and does a discredit to mylot.

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@Hatley (163776)

• Garden Grove, California

14 Aug 10

hi vijayanths but why not read them, just as you would read instructions to a new piece of electronic equipment so you would not damage it. I think there are a number of older peole here who do read the rules. why is it not possible to read them? all a lot of them learn from experience is that they made no money so they quit and say mylot is a scam. I am not perfect at all, I am just another user here who likes to follow directions and use common sense. surely people read the road signs that say detour or do not enter, or do they just go ahead and plow right through the construction and get their cars smashed up?

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celticeagle

@celticeagle (168327)

• Boise, Idaho

15 Aug 10

I think there are different ways of taking the guidlelines and some just don't understand fully what they are telling us. Some folks need to read them several times until they fully understand them. That would save alot of time and bad feelings and then their postings wouldn't be deleted.

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@Hatley (163776)

• Garden Grove, California

18 Aug 11

oh my G 12 months ago and I missed some responses/ wow I hope she did too as now I do not remember a whole year gone by and our economy still in the d umps. sad'and myson sill with only a parttime job.sad indeed

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@Hatley (163776)

• Garden Grove, California

17 Sep 10

hi celticeage like I told one young newbie who said she did not understand some of the words, you are on my friends list so send me a p;message and I will try to help you. I also suggested she reread it maybe with someone who was an English speaker.

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celticeagle

@celticeagle (168327)

• Boise, Idaho

19 Sep 10

That is some great feedback. I hope she takes you up on it.

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@jothis (518)

• India

14 Aug 10

Rules and Policies are always for the healthy participation. Sometimes it may in the bitter side..

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@GardenGerty (160978)

• United States

14 Aug 10

I am on sites that do not have rules, or not the same ones as MyLot. I appreciate the orderliness here. I appreciate that the posts need to be meaninful and follow guidelines. It gives MyLot a quality that many other sites do not live up to.

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moondancer

@moondancer (7431)

• United States

15 Aug 10

Hatley I have no idea why your discussion was deleted. It would help if the new people coming in would read the by laws of My Lot so that they don't write anything that would get discussions deleted. They do not realize that when one person writes something they should not then the whole discussion may get deleted and no one that wrote on it gets a penny, not even them!

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moondancer

@moondancer (7431)

• United States

15 Aug 10

I was wondering about that and started to say that I didn't think that you had ever had this happen, but stuck with what I said. I have been so tired and kind of out of it but have responded to friends discussions anyway. I'm sorry that I read your wrong . I apologize.

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@Hatley (163776)

• Garden Grove, California

15 Aug 10

hi moondancer I havc never had a discussion deleted, it was not mine as I haVE 30000 thousand some,it was a quote from a fellow my lotter.Yes i told him to read the guidelines and rules then he could avoid losing his discussions. I thought quotes another the title would show it was not mine at all.

@Hatley (163776)

• Garden Grove, California

17 Sep 10

hi moondancer thats okay I can see how it might have been misinterpreted too.,

Amber

@AmbiePam (93946)

• United States

14 Aug 10

I don't really care. I don't stop in on their discussions, and since the only person they are really depriving is themselves, I just go on my way. : ) There will always be people who do not read the guidelines.

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Amber

@AmbiePam (93946)

• United States

15 Aug 10

No one can say you didn't try, Hatley. : )

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@Hatley (163776)

• Garden Grove, California

17 Sep 10

hik ambiepam yes I tried and I did help some, and some were grateful so now its time to take care of me and my own needs for awhile.

@Hatley (163776)

• Garden Grove, California

15 Aug 10

hi ambiepam you are so right and I am sick of losing points trying to help people who do not want to be helped anyway. let them figure it out'or just give up and qu ite. some have called me rude, well to heck with them I tried and no more not again. Iquit.

MysD

@mysdianait (66009)

• Italy

14 Aug 10

Hatley I think that you have done more than your fair share of helping out, guiding and advising and maybe it is time to just do your own thing and let them get on with it if that is what they want. I have been through all the responses and comments and drawn a conclusion, especially after the phrase that I saw above - a brick wall will always be a brick wall. It won't be easy but I think that a 'vacation' of a month or so just avoiding those topics and letting them get on with it might do some of us a power of good. What say? Shall we think of number one for a while and see what is going on elsewhere here?

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@Hatley (163776)

• Garden Grove, California

14 Aug 10

hi diana I think so too as I am lagging so far this month. some of it due to off line stuff of course and having to get new glasses too. I really do need to prop up my own earnings too. and getting four or five notifications that I lost my response is not all that much fun either. Brick walls will indeed be brick walls. I have one in my genealogy

search for the parents of my 3ggg grandfather Thomas C Richey, so am beginning to think he was left under a toad stool or in a cabbage leaf. but these kind of stone walls are fun to try to break through.

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@Hatley (163776)

• Garden Grove, California

17 Sep 10

hi zra;te ues a brick wall is always a brick wall. sad that they thing someone is trying to spoild their reputation.

zralte

@zralte (4178)

• India

15 Aug 10

I agree with mysD. In the short time that I am here, you have helped out....or at least tried to help out many, Hatley. If I were to choose top 3 mylotters, mysD, Mykl and Hatley (in no particular order) will be my choice. Anyway, as mysD said, a brick wall will always be a brick wall. Some members think that a helper is trying to spoil their reputation instead!!! Jeez....

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jdyrj777

@jdyrj777 (6528)

• United States

15 Aug 10

My friend, recently ive had a post be deleted because of the discussiobn that was started got deleted. Example #1 This is a notification from myLot. Your answer has been deleted because the question it was under was deleted. Original Question Title: What is your favourite Pizza toppings??? Thank you for using myLot! Example #2 This is a notification from myLot. Your answer has been deleted because the question it was under was deleted. Original Question Title: Do you eat breakfast? Thank you for using myLot! BOTH are questions that had been asked before. And i have posted to. Neither has been deleated before. I personally can not see any reason why they were deleated. In fact i would not be surprized if now this post will also be deleated.

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@Hatley (163776)

• Garden Grove, California

15 Aug 10

because those subjects have been used over and over and because mylot admins have warned us that since we asked to have tighter rules they are 'giving us tighter rules, in other words they were very lax for a long time and we had tons of boring whats your favorite pizza topping and do you eat breakfast as this is a yes or not guestion look go read the questions and answers it is all there and also when we find those that missed being deleted we are to report them to mylot by hitting the exclamation button. read the questions and answers as they tell you why things are deleted. trust me I have read them.

zralte

@zralte (4178)

• India

15 Aug 10

Hatley, I would like to add to your response - 'and learn from it'. @jdyrj, read the discussion guidelines. There are lots of my responses that got deleted too, because the discussion itself has been deleted. I know they were going to be deleted because they break the rules. And I still respond because I am trying to help the member who started the discussion.

ybong007

@ybong007 (6643)

• Philippines

15 Aug 10

sometimes people learn the hard way. i won't take it against anyone whose post gets deleted every now and then. I'm sure everyone here must have gone through the rules at one time or another but we have realize that those are a lot of rules and some of it if not most of it slips our mind. even those who are familiar with the rules are are not exempted from this because there are those who posted in a discussion that they thought are not against the rules and later realize that it is once they receive the notification that the discussion they posted on got deleted. As long as no one gets suspended from posting discussions that are against the rules, people will not take it seriously.

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@Hatley (163776)

• Garden Grove, California

17 Sep 10

ybong007 no risks except they ared wasting their time a d they willnogt get paid and the more arrogantg they are the more they just might get barred from mylot. mylot admins will only stand do much of that kind of breaking the rules.the only reason they are not aware is that they are too lazy or too dumb or too just thumbing their noses at authority to give a darn but they will be the first to yeel mylot isw a scam it didnot pay me. well now if they had read the blased rules they would know they had broken them. why come here if the do not intend to follow the guidelines and make good discussions? they cannot make money on deleted crap.l

ybong007

@ybong007 (6643)

• Philippines

16 Aug 10

compared to driving,there are no risks involved in posting discussions against the rules. except for the deletion of the post. that's why a lot disregard it. So far these are the reasons why people here post discussions that violate against the rules. one - they are not aware. two - they are aware but they think they can get away with it. three - they are aware but they knew that admin will not delete it right away and they have a chance to post their referral link or anything that are against the TOS . BTW, you're not old enough...it's just the sugar levels

. I guess every now and then each of us needs a pat in the back, but we really can't deny that people mistake such action as either a pat or a shove. To me it's the former. Just keep in caring... Cheers and keep those sugar levels down.

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Kumar1232009

@Kumar1232009 (1215)

• Spain

14 Aug 10

how about putting training video with captions? some people are so lazy to read lenghty informations... there are IT's here of course and could make my suggestion materialized!!

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@Hatley (163776)

• Garden Grove, California

14 Aug 10

oh my gosh Kumar yes, I think we have a whole bunch of IT's here and make it sort of cute, maybe dancing cats or something catchy for the animal lovers.What an interesting Idea. might really work too. lol

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K.Rajib G.

@krajibg (11922)

• Guwahati, India

15 Aug 10

But Hatley, do not you think that to check it out something must be Done? Sooner or later?

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@Hatley (163776)

• Garden Grove, California

17 Sep 10

hbni richnai yes but sometimes even lazy people get the urge to watch a video. I think it could work it they tried it though, really. Maybe if they had funny characters parading around each guideline sentence they would read just to see the car toons. oh my thats too wild. lol.

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de_toya

@de_toya (2429)

• Indonesia

15 Aug 10

Most of us didn't read the guidelines. For some veteran member who has posted 10,000 perhaps, they have read the guidelines but they forget and slip to make a mistake by posted 10,000 celebration. Whereas, they could celebrate their achievement with their friend using private message that provided by mylot. We are human and it's naturally if we make a mistake. I don't believe if member who has posted 10,000 post didn't read guidelines. That's the purpose mylot admin. They are like referee in the game.

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@Hatley (163776)

• Garden Grove, California

15 Aug 10

hi de toya but why not read them, why the big hangup? why not just 'read them instead of asking questions that will just get deleted? 'common sense tells me if I want to bake a cake I find a r ecipe and follow it instead of just dumping in flour, sugar and baking powdee without knowing just what the hell I am doing.yes we are humans but humans can learn and learning will help to better enjoy mylotting;.or'am I just wasting all my energy here.

de_toya

@de_toya (2429)

• Indonesia

16 Aug 10

There are many kind of people Hat. Some of them are able to understand the guidelines easily and others are difficult to understand. Some of them willing to read the guidelines and others are too lazy to read. Don't be bothered with their question. Just ignored it when you find such question.

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chrislotz

@chrislotz (8137)

• Canada

13 Aug 11

I am really surprised that this discussion didn't get deleted. It is also against the rules to start topics about mylot, when it's a topic against mylot. But then some are still here and I don't get it. Why was this one not deleted when it's about a topic that is against the rules. I have read the rules so many times because I forget them or I read something like this and so I want to refresh my memory and read them again. A lot of them, in my opinion, are confusing. Sometimes I have responded to a discussion that I don't think is against any rules and then it gets deleted anyways and I don't understand why. So what I do now to stay safe is just respond to the old digests I have in my email box. I save them and since I haven't been all that active I have lots of them to do and will never run out. If the discussion was deleted it would be gone long before I got to it to respond to it. It works for me.

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@Hatley (163776)

• Garden Grove, California

18 Aug 11

look here I read the rules too all the time and no this is not a topic against mylot at all. I am all for mylot and their rules and their information,. maybe you read some of the responses of people who do seem against m ylot they want four word rules and information a first grader could read. I do not'know where you got the idea that this is against any mylot rules

as it is not.

gdesjardin

@gdesjardin (1918)

• United States

16 Aug 10

I have been on MyLot for a while now, however I don't always post...if you can believe that. I also haven't been on mylot in a long time. I first joined MyLot because I worked for a company that went bankrupt. My children were in school during the day, and I was bored out of my mind. I came across MyLot completed by accident and signed up. I enjoyed reading all the stuff that people discussed. Slowly I started commenting on discussions, I wasn't "in it" for the $$ but something to pass the day away. I mean lets be honest, how much cleaning can a person do each day...lol. When I first signed up I don't even think I read the rules, because I wasn't really interested in making money. After I started commenting on discussions, I did read the rules, but I honestly don't think I could remember most of them. I just started back on MyLot I believe on Thursday or Friday and two of my comments were deleted because the initial discussion was deleted. I figured I better re-read the rules.

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@Hatley (163776)

• Garden Grove, California

17 Sep 10

hi gdesjardin I thought I had seen your user name before. I have been here three years, and I came here because i was newly retired and hated not having a job. I was 79 and they made me feel useless and used up. so when I found mylot accidentally I really was fascinated and I went through the same things as you but I found by reading all the information

I wo uld not lose anything bu t I did gain a lot,many friends and I learned so much from my new found friends from all over the world and also I needed the money,.so now I am quitting helping anyone but myself so I can get =back the t en dollars I was down last month. I do care about the quality of mylot discussions which so many have insinuated is stupid or silly or what not. but I am just me and I do care. so I do not know what that makes me. But my son still loves me and my best friend.

quita88

@quita88 (3715)

• United States

16 Aug 10

Looks to me like this discussion has taken on a life of its own without me :) I have read all there is to read on mylot and done as I thought was right but still get deleted on occasion. I just have decided that when I got dropped to red/9 that was ok. I too like red. I don't give my life to mylot. I have other things and sites to tend to and lately my grandsons. so, I answer sometimes a bit hastily...........wrong it is , agreed? but we tend to do that. Most never really read all there it to read. The rules , tho explicit to a point are still left with curved edges...........some members can get away with "chatting" as I 've been accused of by mylot and when I am certain my response was a good one, BOOM it is deleted and their's is not???? Henceforth..............why worry? Take your time , do the best you can and move on. I have high blood pressure ! Why push it any harder LOL hugs, quita

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@Hatley (163776)

• Garden Grove, California

17 Sep 10

hi quita me too I mean I also haved high blood pressure and this past month myearnings dropped due to my stupidity in responding to discussions that were doomed trying to help and a lot of times they didnot appreciate it anyway,.so to hell with it. now I no longer give a fig, let them sink or swim. I have to think of my own goals and reach them.the new ones are not going to give a fig is I sink or swim either so why should I care any more.

annavi23

@annavi23 (6522)

• Philippines

16 Aug 10

haha,this reminds me of my post before.well,i know milestones really got deleted cause it is not a discussion to celebrate something here.i just started the topic before to know some other members who are aware of those topics.and to my surprise,there are so many newbies who really don't know about those stuffs.i just find it funny realizing,most of people back then really have no idea about such things,well at least,it gave them or most of us a lesson not to repeat such things,unless they really want to violate rules and get deleted,lol!

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@Hatley (163776)

• Garden Grove, California

17 Sep 10

annavi hi yes when one knows what one is doing it will become clear that you can have a lot of fun here makiing new friends from all over the world,and learning from them too, and just having fun as we earn.

gmnava

@gmnava (31)

• Philippines

15 Aug 10

Since we belong to a civilized world the deletion of messages of any member has no room for a civilized world especially in this social networking site. We should remember that we are "society of law and not of men". Hence, such attitude is condemnable.

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superboy7789

@superboy7789 (3)

• United States

16 Aug 10

not sure.. i just want to get as many posts out as possible to generate as many pennies as i can lol

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