Same topic?!....Same title?!

Hi sweet_pea, I would suggest you tell the member who posted identical discussions that you have already started a discussion about the topic, and that his/her discussion will get deleted because it is duplicate. Give him/her a link to your discussion, and report that discussion to the admin with a link to your discussion stating the reason that it is duplicated discussion. It is our duty as a member to help out the admins and also to help other members. That particular member may not be aware of the search engine or that there has been a discussion already made.

You should have reported that duplicate discussion not because it was yours duplication but because it was in fact a duplicate discussion. It is our duty to report admin about repeated discussion as they cannot keep their eye on each and every discussion and they cannot compare every discussion with last discussions. It is almost impossible for them. We must report anything which is against the guidelines. So I believe you should have reported it including the link of previous discussion.

Probably it was coincidental, she came up the same idea as you did, but she didn't realize that someone else within mylot also posted the same topic and same title. What do you want from her then? Some sort of copyright damage compensation? Or sue her over administrator? Let it go.

Since a few weeks many new members are "rewriters" : they are rewriting successful discussions to start new ones. Most of these discussions are deleted because they are duplicated. If the topic and the title are the same, I think I would hit on "abuse" for plagiarism. Rewriting a discussion is certainly not a way to enjoy myLot -- it is so easy to start new original discussions -- and plagiarism is not acceptable.

Hello sweet_pea, Something like this happened to me when I was a newbie. I started a discussion, asking myLotters for some advice on what product to buy. I didn't receive too many responses but the next day an older myLotter started a similar topic. And guess what? She received a lot of responses! I found the answer to my question there, even though in my topic those users didn't bother to write a response. Later, that user became one of my best friends here and we joked about that situation. I am sure she didn't even saw my topic when she started her new one. It was a funny coincidence. Maybe the same thing happened to your friend. Maybe it was a coincidence. If she's your friend indeed, I think you should send her a message to tell her about this problem and to explain her about the use of the search bar.

You need to report the duplicate dicussion immediately.if your discusson was copied word for word that is plagiarism and is a very serious offense.Forgetting this and letting it go is not the answer.whether this person is a friend or not letting them get away with this is wrong and enables them to just go on doing this to others, feeling if they got away with it the first time, why not try it again, which is very unfair to other members here, who might have the same thng happen to them, by the same person.

sweet pea what she did breaks both mylot rules and worse the rule of the U W plagarism which is illegal in the UD reporter her to myhlot as that is stealing. she is harming you and harming mylots reputation too.She copied your work and that is wrong. repoert her as mylot admins asks us to do.no do not wait for this to pass report it as she probably does not know you cannot copy others works here,its illegal in the U S she needs to know about this before she gets herself into trouble off my lot. report her at once, use the exclamation point.

Hey sweet_pea, Lovely title by the way it got my eye haha which is a rerally good thing my friend haha.. To answer your question I think if the title is similar and subject the same and everything is same thing. I would hit the report button I think it's diffenert if time as pass and the same. Discussion has taken place. If everything is similar then action should be taken that's like copy and pasting if they can't then that's just against the law lol.. I'm sure you won't take it that far but I think something should be said or done. If everything is similar like you said bascailly a copy and paste of the same discussion. Then report [!] if you don't what would you do if the same person does it again? Send a private message or something. If you don't want to get anyone in trouble there account ca be deleted If it's a copy and paste with no reason in the end.

There are different types of users here on myLot. All start out as newbies, and all may have different reasons why they come in here the first place. It isn't unheard of that someone may just come in to earn money. And maybe copying discussions would be an easy way to around the system if they don't get caught. Just take note of the username. And if it happens again, I'd report it to the admin.

It happens. Sometimes the search bar does not provide you the results you want. I've searched for some of my own discussion and others that I have responded to to try it out but found different discussions. And what I was looking for did not come up. I think you were right in just informing her. It would not be good to alienate newbies as new members would make mylot a better experience. The clincher here I think is the fact that she made the topic her own, maybe she really just wanted to share her experience on the topic, but forgot that you already made a discussion out of it. In any case, its good to know you are friends now.

I had experience this few times before. I just posted a discussion. After 1 week, someone posted the same discussion again. Although the title is not the same but the meaning are same. I would said don't take it too serious. Nothing is perfect here since there are a lot of members here. I think they are not purposely do this. Sometimes i will think will my topic posted by someone before but i will still post because this is what i want to ask and know. I am not copying anyone idea.

Maybe someone forgot he posted the discussion and intend to post it for "the first time". Or maybe he's just a copy-paster and is trying to get some easy bucks on MyLot, there the admins will delete the topics and possibly ban them. But it's not that uncommon to see duplicate posts or with very same idea, as the site has a long history and we often post the same topic someone else posted some time ago, but worded differently.

Most of the newbies are not aware of the purpose of the search engine. They thought that as long as they can post anything, they can get paid for that. We got moderators here to check and delete such discussions. If it wasn't deleted at all perhaps it wasn't considered as a violation of the rules here. This doesn't really bothers me when somebody posted a similar topic to mine, I just don't respond to that at all! Anyway, I just reported my own self for abuse because I posted the same discussion twice due to server error. I hope the admin or moderators would consider that I wasn't cheating at all. I don't want to get banned here in my lot at all!

forget it... don't let this hassle u. for more interesting topics, i think anything which has to do with family matters would be interesting as everyone can relate to it. examples are bringing up the kids, especially those age ranging from 12-15. sort of...

Maybe the writer really copied thinking that nobody will notice. That's not allowed . Perhaps MYlot will delete that topic when they realize that.