My comments won't post
By dorannmwin
@dorannmwin (36392)
United States
July 1, 2012 11:18pm CST
Ugh, this is something that is driving me nuts.
Of course we all know that mylot was down for the bulk of the day yesterday and I would imagine that there are several mylot users that are very disappointed about this fact because of the fact that yesterday was the last day of the month and thus the last opportunity that they had to make payout for July.
This, however, doesn't bother me at all. What does bother me is the fact that I've been trying to respond to discussions today and now I will type up my entire response and hit post and it will just redirect me to the discussion without posting my response.
So, does anyone else have any mylot bugs that really drive them insane?
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20 responses
@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
2 Jul 12
I have one bug that is irritating me no end at the moment.
There are several Lotters who, after the downtime this week-end, are unable to post and this, in my opinion, should have been sorted before a quadruple earnings day was announced. They cannot take part but through no fault of their own
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@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
2 Jul 12
Sadly I am aware of some who are unable to post anything and I have informed admin.
@gerald_lian (2188)
• Australia
2 Jul 12
Don't worry, it's happening to everyone, including yours truly. Just hours ago, whenever I tried responding to discussions made by others, the myLot site kept telling me I needed to edit my post to only include letters, numbers and non-special characters (or something along that lines ). Made changes to my post and re-reviewed the post before resubmitting, and after all that it was still not going through. It even went to the point of me double-posting as the post-response page was so slow in loading that I tried refreshing the page. Good thing things are back to normal now, and let's hope things will stay that way. Hope everything's fine for you too, and let's keep posting!
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@gerald_lian (2188)
• Australia
5 Jul 12
That bug has happened to me multiple times too on previous occasions, and the solution you suggested is exactly what I do when I encounter those situations too! I notice this sometimes happen when the myLot site is about to be down, or when the site is close to upgrade/maintenance time. Sometimes closing the window helps and sometimes it doesn't too, but for majority of the cases, if closing the window doesn't help, checking back a couple of hours later normally does the trick.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
6 Jul 12
It is always kind of depressing to me when the site is down, but I do just go and do something else for a little while and then I will keep checking back on mylot from time to time until the site is back up.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
2 Jul 12
The bug that you've had show up is something that does happen to me from time to time in my use of mylot. Most of the time when that happens to me, I will copy my post onto my notepad and close my window. Then I will open a new window and repost the comment and it will go through.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
2 Jul 12
The payout day wasn't something that really had an effect on me either because I had reached mine earlier in the month. However, I have observed in the past that there are a lot of people that backload their work so that they have to work a lot harder at the end of the month than they do at the beginning of the month.
Of course, the bonus for those people is that they will be getting a really large payout in August if they missed the July payout by just a few cents.
@thrwbckjay67 (2870)
• United States
2 Jul 12
I was actually having the same problem earlier this morning when the site had first returned. Sometimes it would show that I had in fact posted a comment and then later on it would not even post anything else.
There aren't many bugs that myLot has that bother me; usually most of the small issues that occur, like the posting issue you are experiencing/I was experiencing, are minor and eventually fixed without much being lost. I can't really think about anything that really grind my gears. Hope your issue is resolved soon!
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@ravisivan (14079)
• India
2 Jul 12
thrwbckjay67
yes. the problems have been fixed. mylot has paid me 4 times my normal earning for my responses yesterday. thanks. mylot. Just now the earnings indicated that.
good day.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
2 Jul 12
I do have to admit that the fact that mylot is being generous enough to give us bonus earnings is something that is very kind because it wasn't their fault that the site was down.
However, it does also get very irritating to me when things aren't working because I can't always devote the kind of time to the site that I would like to be able to devote to it.
@yoyo1198 (3641)
• United States
2 Jul 12
I was having the same problem. But went back later and my post was there. Next time it wasn't. I'd say just give it time. Perhaps administration will realize the problem and add another day of increased payment. Send them a note about it. If enough of us let them know there's another problem perhaps they'll do so.
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@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
2 Jul 12
I suppose admin must have been paying attention to what you were saying because they did add another day of increased earnings for us.
This, is something that does make me happy. Still, though there are some people that are really going to be able to capitalize from this, there are others that won't be able to gain any additional bonus from the added day.
@factorial (977)
• Philippines
2 Jul 12
Mylot says our earnings are quadruple... let us try if it is really four times...
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
4 Jul 12
I've been a mylot user for quite a while now, and I believe that admin is very fair to all of the users. For that reason alone, I think that they are being completely honest when saying that we will be able to make quadruple our usual activity earnings.
Hope you have a good time with the additional earnings.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
2 Jul 12
factorial
welcome to mylot. yes. just now i received an alert stating as under:
"Well, those of us at myLot are still recovering from the huge thunderstorm on the East Coast of the USA that knocked out power everywhere, including one of our EC2 datacenters. We thank you for your patience Expect intermittent issues, but trust that we're working hard to get everything back to 100%. We are extending the QUADRUPLE Earnings Days on myLot! Instead of just Sunday and Monday, we will also include Tuesday. This means your normal payout will be four times higher than normal for these three days. Check back late today, tomorrow and Wednesday morning (CDT) to see the QUADRUPLE Earnings. We're sure you have lots to discuss. Of course, please adhere to the myLot Community Guidelines as usual. Happy myLotting! myLot Staff"
I have posted this so that others who have not noticed it will get informed.
now things are fine. we will get 4 times our regular earnings. good.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
4 Jul 12
For a time yesterday, the site was working well for me. Then when I cam back in the evening to work more on the site, I wasn't able to access it at all. Then, this is the first time today that I've been able to access the site. However, I am quite thankful that I am able to be on here right now.
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
3 Jul 12
sometimes mine looks like that and like i didnt post, but it did. i go to the last post and look and there it is thats how it happens sometimes and i think thats how people really end up with double posts because they dont see its already posted.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
4 Jul 12
I was trying to do that to see if my posts did for some reason go through without asking me to add tags to my post. However, in my situations, the responses that I had written had not gone through at all.
@much2say (55601)
• Los Angeles, California
2 Jul 12
Hi dorannmwin! Did you also know that Sunday and Monday were/are opportunities to make quadruple earnings? It was in the alerts - but apparently some myLotters didn't know that. The problem is people are having problems posting (including me) or it's taking forever to post - if it posts (for me my comments have disappeared). So it's been frustrating too that we've been thrown this teaser about quadruple earnings yet we can't do too much here. But I guess we cannot complain - whatever is up with myLot is due to a power outage - so can't help that. This is my first stop this morning, so we'll see how it posts right NOW . . .
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
4 Jul 12
I did know about the quadruple earnings days and I really would like to be able to capitalize on it, but it seems like the site has spent more time being down than being up.
Of course, now it seems to be working right again, so that is something that I am happy about and I will try to post as much as I am able to post.
@unique16 (1531)
• United States
2 Jul 12
Hello when I look at my activity under my profile it says I have notlog on in the last 60 day! I was on here on Friday June 28 2012.I see none of my answers! This is very strange.When I first log in I got to error/warnging messages from MYlot but there was nothing under them to read...So I do not have a clue to what has happen except for you comments about Mylot being down yesterday.I am not on the weekends since I do not have interetat home.
Thanks for the update! I hope tomorrow or later this afternoon everything will show up for me!
Thanks Unique16
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
2 Jul 12
dorannmwin
you have started this discussion 12 hours ago. I am seeing it now only. I hope things are better now. I logged in just now and posted a response and it got accepted immediately.
yesterday I posted two responses - they were not going thro-but they got posted.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
4 Jul 12
Well, the site did work well for a little bit, but then yesterday afternoon, until this evening, I have not been able to access mylot at all.
However, for the time being, it seems like the site is working right and that is something that I am very thankful for and also something that I will definitely try to capitalize on.
@RitterSport (2451)
• Lippstadt, Germany
3 Jul 12
let me assure you that you are not alone in this. Here its getting really weird. Like almost everywhere else mylot was down Saturday and part of Sunday my time. Could catch up a little bit with some of the notifications I got as I have the notifications on for almost all my friends.
but when I wanted to comment on some older discussions as I still had the notifications in my folder it didnt and still doesnt work.....
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
4 Jul 12
You know what is really funny is the fact that I didn't even know that there were a lot of sites that were down on Saturday because of the storms. I suppose a big part of the reason for that is because of the fact that we were out of the house doing some fun family things on Saturday.
@riempie9 (1021)
• South Africa
2 Jul 12
I had the exact same problem yesterday. I lost post after post and had not made a copy. Today it is fine but I lost valuable time. I am wondering if this was on purpose in some locations so that MyLot is not flooded with responses. What do you think? I can be a skeptic at times. Still, I do not think they will resort to such underhanded tactics. I love the MyLot experience I must say.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
2 Jul 12
I've been a member here for some time now and in that time, I have never found mylot to be anything but fair. For that reason alone, I don't think that the bug that you and I were experiencing yesterday was something that was intentionally done.
In addition to that, if they had done something like that intentionally, then they would not have added an additional bonus earnings day for the members.
@rahmabaegood (166)
• India
2 Jul 12
Yes, it bug me too. The post still loading then error appearing. :(
But be happy, there's a quadruppal earning :p
come on post more and more :p
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
4 Jul 12
Quadruple earnings is definitely something that I've very happy about. Yes, there has been a lot of down time with the site, but for right now, the site is available and I am going to try to do as much as I possibly can with the time that I have.
@ajithlal (14716)
• India
2 Jul 12
Yes I had bugs yesterday even after myLot was up for couple of minutes and I was going from afternoon to another place for enjoying the weekend with my relatives and family and want to do as far as I could when I can. I am happy that now on today I am able to do myLot. I have reached payout this month. I have not reached payout for the past two months and happy I reached this month.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
4 Jul 12
That is great that you were able to make your payout for the month. It is always quite rewarding when we are able to make our payout when we've missed out on it for some time.
With that said, though the site was working great for me yesterday during the day, when I came back in the evening, I wasn't able to access the site at all.
@Shellyann36 (11384)
• United States
2 Jul 12
I have had several problems yesterday with posting. I responded at least four times to four different discussions and they would not post. I contacted MyLot about this. This is the first time that it has ever happened to me. I hope that it is resolved. It is weird because I have posted on several different discussions but these particular four are the only ones that didn't take. I hate having online problems.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
2 Jul 12
The bug that you are talking about is very similar to the one that I had going on yesterday. It only happened to me with two different discussions, but I did waste a lot of time trying to get my responses to post because I just kept on trying instead of moving on to another discussion.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
4 Jul 12
When I was on mylot during the day yesterday, it was working well. However, when I came back in the evening to spend some time on here, I wasn't able to access anything at all and then for the bulk of today the site has been down for upgrades. However, I haven't had any issues yet this evening.
@bostonphil (4459)
• United States
2 Jul 12
I also have had some problems trying to post now and then. I will type a response or comment and then try to post it only to get a message that I can not. Almost always, it says something about only being allowed to post using letters, numbers,and symbols. Of course, that is all that I have used. The problem is a mylot glitch. Something is not working right and it always gets corrected but I have sometimes spent a lot of time and effort writing a comment or response only to lose it. My comment or response does not get posted. I have to re-write it when the glitch gets corrected.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
4 Jul 12
That is an error that I have seen happen on here to me more than once. Yes, it is something that drives me insane, but most of the time if I try to resubmit the response it will work the way that it is supposed to.
I am glad that mylot is back up and working for me now though.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
2 Jul 12
So far today, I have not experienced any kinds of bugs that will drive me nuts. And, I'm also happy that mylot has added a third quadruple earnings day because of the problems that some users were facing yesterday.
I have a feeling that July is going to be a really good month for me.
@joevanosa (303)
• Philippines
2 Jul 12
sometimes, i could not log in. my friends who is one of my referrals don't visit the site oftentimes because she can't log in when she wants to go online.
sometimes, i can not post my comments. and i hate it because i had already typed around 3 paragraphs then i couldn't post it? grrr...
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
2 Jul 12
The referral thing is actually something that is quite irritating to me. You see, my little sister is a member here, but in the time that she has been a member, she has only posted one time.
Now, I'm not trying to disillusion her and say that she will get rich by being on here, but I also know that she has one of those situations in her life where every penny does matter.