odd things happen on the lot.

@Hatley (163776)
Garden Grove, California
August 18, 2012 4:51pm CST
first I get a discussion deleted then I find a first copy half written on a page that never posted.so now I had to delete all 'of what had been written as its no longer a valid discussion and am stuck making a new discussion.so now mylotters your take on a half written discussion left hanging in my tabs.As it would not even post I had given up on it yesterday and re wrote the whole thing. so now how come this pops up as it had flown off the page before and I could not getit back.All I got was a blank page.so now it reappeared? I swear I do not know what happens to cause things like this. Any idea? I tried to just close the tab but I came back and it reappeared,.u gh. gremlins?I mean I erased all the stuff on this page bu t did not find any way to close it out.so just decided to see if any weird stuff here has some explantion?
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• United States
18 Aug 12
This happens to me where the page goes blank after I ice. It will come back when you refresh your page. That's all I know to say Aunt Hatley.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
18 Aug 12
hi pq somethings eating my comment darn,. anyway I did try refreshing but it did not wo rk. then =tried just closing the tab. I am stymied, lol
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@celticeagle (168478)
• Boise, Idaho
19 Aug 12
How weird! One of the Mylot glitches or gremlins. I think we have viruses too. I have noticed things freeze up sometimes when I am on Mylot. Its no fun and hard to figure what is going on for sure. When my computer heats up everything goes black and it never did that before. Weird!
• United States
19 Aug 12
My daughter just called me today saying her computer screen keeps freezing up and going black. What is this, something in the air?
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
19 Aug 12
hi celtic and Kashmere I know I do not have a virus bu t somehow some odd gliches were going on today. at least thank goodness my computer is wo rking,.maybe something is in the air
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@celticeagle (168478)
• Boise, Idaho
24 Aug 12
It's a gremlin I think. hehe
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
19 Aug 12
I am as confused as you are, Hatley! PCs can do some very weird things at times, even though they are "totally logical". Since I can't give you an explanation, I guess that we'll just have to let it go at that and not worry about it! Just so that this isn't an "IDK answer", let's go completely off topic! I am constantly fascinated by your avatar, which you sometimes change twice a day, it seems. The variations are always colourful and highly pleasing in their symmetry and abstraction. They are very like those diagrams which one sees sometimes as meditation aids - I forget what they are called. I feel certain that, when you are not 'MyLotting', you are playing with some simple program which produces them and I'd love to know what it is and where I can get it. Can you please let us into the secret of your avatars?
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
19 Aug 12
Hehe! I used to LOVE Paintshop Pro (from Jasc) and hate Photoshop (from Adobe). Now I use various things which are free. I guess I shall have to find a way of doing what you do with Photoshop in Gimp or something else! Windows Vista is OK but many people say that it wasn't any advance on XP and that Windows 7 is better. Microsoft tend to make a good one and then a rubbish one and then a good one. That should mean that Win 7 ought to be better than Vista. I use both (on different machines) and find that there isn't a lot of difference. Now we shall very soon have Win 8 (which ought to be rubbish). I am past caring ... we shall have to see, LOL.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
23 Aug 12
hi owlwing I have windows xp professional I once had windows millennium and that windows was just awful b ut the next version was just great , I wonder why they do it like that?I have no problems with XP professional but with video cards, this one I have now is working great but the one before w s new and transitors in it were corrupted and stopped my computer completely so now I am hoping this new card will keep on working as it is now,. windows 2000 was good but windows 2001 was awful it would freeze or hangup without any warning., glad I have Xp now
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
19 Aug 12
hi owlwings oh sure. I got entranced by making all sorts of graphics out of my photoshop.I would play around and try the different ideas and either come up with something really attractive, or something totally bizarre and weird even u gly. Yes its a simple program and all the m any various steps are outlined for you. I just played around there and had a lot of fun.I think the one i have is called Jasc photo shop.It came with my windows XP professional. I had wanted Windows 7 but my son told me that that one really has a lot of problems so he put Vista on for me and I really love it too.
• United States
19 Aug 12
I had that happen to me last Saturday morning about a phone message I had gotten the Friday before. My ex boyfriend Ed left me a voicemail around lunchtime. He was talking to me as if we were still together, and basically told me that he had been out of work for 18 months, but the jist of the message was for him to say that he hoped I was doing well. This is the man that I was with for seven years, then when I finally decide that I've had enough of his crap and I'm ready to break it off, he just stopped calling. He broke my heart, and I've finally gotten to the point that I'm not even thinking of him any more (unless Jim brings him up for some stupid reason). I toyed with telling Jim-I knew he'd be upset, but in the end, I told him about the call. He actually wanted me to call him and let him know I was getting married, and brag about how great my life was. What? I will NOT lie, especially because our life isn't going so great right now, even to make my ex feel bad. So I wrote this great discussion and got all of my feelings out-and when I posted, I got the dreaded blank screen with a message that told me I could only use letters, numbers and standard punctuation! I'm on my phone typing this, so I'm literally freaking out because there was absolutely no way that I could have typed anything BUT letters, numbers and standard punctuation! So my situation isn't quite the same as yours, but you're not alone in thinking myLot doing something weird. I logged on this morning-yesterday, I was only 4 cents shy of $10; today, I'm short 27 cents, or a loss of 23 cents. I haven't really gotten any notifications of any of MY discussions being deleted (and only one that I had made a single response in), so I'm really disgusted right now.
• United States
20 Aug 12
Men just think about things in a different way than we do. For instance, Jim, told me before we even met face to face that he I Love You-and since I actually heard those words in years (my father was not as demonstrative as my mother), I burst into tears of happiness! I was always the one to say it first in a relationship, but after my divorce, I promised myself that I would never say it first again. It was so hard for me for a long time-I felt myself falling in love with Ed, and fought it for a long time (it took me two years before I could admit it to myself). But today, Jim and I talked about our future and what we're hoping for. How long were you married to your special guy? I'm sorry that your second marriage proposal turned out the way it did-sounds like he was a sore loser. I've always wondered what it was like to have a good relationship, where someone loved me as much as I loved them. My sister told me it's a great feeling-I think I'm starting to get it now. I've always wanted to be first in someone's heart-my ex soured me on marriage by being suspicious and jealous of me all the time and that was why I never wanted to remarry. I had talked to Ed countless times about how badly I was treated all those years (as a friend); and he told me about his wife Annmarie, and how they had met. For the most part, he's a decent guy, just took advantage of me and how vulnerable I was after my divorce. That's why I never really never felt the need to marry Ed-I was happy if we had just lived together. But then I slowly pieced together the truth-the woman he claimed was a really good friend could be considered his common-law wife and that's when I had to get out. I agree-we Scorpios tend to have our feelings run deep. I think sometimes it makes us more vulnerable to being hurt though.
• United States
19 Aug 12
So that's where my money went! I wish they'd tell us which discussion was deleted-makes things a lot less confusing. I had been responding back and forth to a few that day, which is why it's confusing! Every great relationship is not without its problems; we're growing as we work through this (or at least I am). I just wish that my ex hadn't called me-I finally had gotten over him sending me a text message last April. Feelings that I thought I had buried away are coming back to the surface, and from the way it sounded, he thinks that we're still friends. I no longer hate him, just sad that it ended the way it did. In many ways, I felt closer to him than anyone else in my life, which is why I suppose it hurt so bad when we broke up. He's the only man that I've ever really been in love with-I've loved, but nothing like that. I could see us spending our lives together. I love Jim very much, but I'm scared of where our future lies.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
19 Aug 12
wow scorpiobabes I am sorry to he ar your new relationshop is not going so well either. I can imagine how frustated yo were when y ou got that message about not being able to post content use standard punctuation etc as I have had that happen too you lost all that work,grrrrrrrrrrrrr. and if y ou respoonded to my deleted discusion y ou lost some cents the re too,. i lost forty cents, grrrrrrrrrrr again bu t it was my goof as I should have checked more closely
• India
25 Aug 12
Hatley, sad to hear that your topic is deleted and you had some hard time with mylot, some of my replies are also deleted here, but i don't find any glitches here now, may be you faced this glitches while site is in maintenance time
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@ajithlal (14716)
• India
11 Sep 12
Sometimes we can do nothing when duplicating of the discussions comes without our knowledge and hope everything gets okay.
@ajithlal (14716)
• India
8 Sep 12
I am also not happy when topics get deleted. I hope none of the discussions get deleted and most of the discussions do not get deleted.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
8 Sep 12
hi vidhyaprakahs and ajithlal I guess my other one was a duplicat or so theysaid but this oneis not and am happy with 'how things are going,Yes glitches sometimes appear insome places and not others.but at least this discussion is taking off thanks to all my friends here.
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@echoforever (5180)
• United States
18 Aug 12
Woahhh yeah I take the bet on gremlins! that is very odd that a post you never submitted showed up? Must have been some weird error on the page that created it. As for deleted posts, I think a coupel of my discussions were deleted awhile back. I don't know which ones or I would rewrite. But also someting weird with my profile - All the HTML was gone and it said on there one day that I hadn't posted in 6 months!!! I haven't even been a MEMBER for 2 MONTHS! But yeah that's about all the weirdness I have seen.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
18 Aug 12
hi echoforever yes its really odd as it disappearedc before and I rewrote the discussion.I managed to erase allt he stuff I had written and then tried to close the tab, the silly thing popped right back so decided to write a new disc ussion since i co uld not close the page.weird for s ure.
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@BarBaraPrz (47706)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
19 Aug 12
I was gonna say gremlins, but you already suspect them.
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@BarBaraPrz (47706)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
19 Aug 12
That's good.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
23 Aug 12
hi barbara today is even better as its not hot yet b ut wait we get the most heat in mid afternoon. there is no breeze so it may again be hot yet. havent seenany glitches yet either. good for m e.
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
19 Aug 12
hibarbara y ep I suspected them already so maybe glitches instead'as I co uld not close the tab.so I erased the half done stuff and made a new discussion, what a day but it is turning out better tonight.
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• India
27 Aug 12
Its a website on Internet and technologies have their limitations. There must be some technical issue. Well, what I do is just keep a file on my computer with the discussion I post. I also keep it updated with comments I like the most. I am a writer and this habit helps me to create ideas. Ideas are the most important tool for a writer. Mylot is the best platform for people like me to learn, share and get ideas from different kind of people from all the corners of the world. I love it. Just do what I do and report it to mylot.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
8 Sep 12
hi beachlover good suggestions,. I love to write too but as yet am unpublished.So am starting to do the same thing with a file on my computer too. today I have had to copy all the comments I write as a other wise I have to rewrite them over and over. a mylot glitch as I haven't seen this on any other site.
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@primeaque86 (8108)
• Philippines
25 Aug 12
Hello my friend Hatley am back here for a while so I take my time to visit your post. How are you my friend? Anyway, things like that happened. I also experienced some kind of weird thing here, though not the same as yours, worst than what had happened there... since I am so active with my blog a month or so, and I keep on following important updates on the blogger SEO, it just happened that all my blog setting was changed to default, all my customizations were gone and I am 100% sure I never did it, so who did? LOL.... I thought I was hacked, but it was not a valid idea, so I just thought a sign or something... it's weird really and it took me a week to get back all the important tweaks in there... See you. Regards, Prime
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
8 Sep 12
oh wow prime glad you are back . that must have reallybeen upsetting losing all that work and having to start all'over again like that. I have played around with t he idea of a blog butknow not the first thing about them. I am fine and happily mylotting. Still YOu might have been hacked.'oddly to day again I have had written half of a response and had it fly off so back to copying everything again. lol. I thought it was so weird' for a pag e with a half written discussion to fly off then reappear a day after the final discussion had b e en deleted.,So since the one I finally had made was deleted I was not going t0 finish that half page so ju st deleted what I had written and made this discussion on it.,thankfully it has not broken any rule.
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
19 Aug 12
i think sure there are definately some gremlens on mylot. for ive posted things and seen response way way down on the little section where my response is at. dont know how to explain that sos you know what im meaning. but ive seen it happen to others also. its like where you avatar is, then the response dont show till you scroll way down that response window. oh im not sure how to explain but yes there are Gremlins
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
19 Aug 12
oh yes I think we are both describing the same thing. lol
• Valdosta, Georgia
19 Aug 12
I don't know what is going on. I am having issues with responding today at times. It would say unable to post content. Then, it would be gone and I had to do it all over again. On another discussion I tried responding and it would just not go through... Another glitch maybe??
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• United States
19 Aug 12
I'm a nervous wreck. I haven't had any of this happen to me today so I'm pounding on wood all over the place so I don't whammy myself, lol!
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
19 Aug 12
hi lovingmybabies and Kashmere andnow I keep having to copy as my comments fly away leaving the page blank g rrrrrrrrrrrr.no place else today has given me any trouble just my lot so guess'iots som e new glitches,anyway I got a new discussion out of it that i had not intended to write. lol lolyesterday I tried to just close the tab but it would not close so wrote a new disc usson lol
• Valdosta, Georgia
19 Aug 12
Your so lucky you have not experienced it. It has been a pain all day long for me and others. I thought it was my computer at first, then I figured out other sites were loading just fine so it had to be the site. Hopefully it will be okay now. I have not had a problem for a little while now. I hope you won't have any issues at all!
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@fantabulus (4000)
• India
19 Aug 12
Aunty you are facing again one problem what is happening with you and your computer. Take my Computer for working because your computer want to rest haha..just joking I will not give you my Sweet heart that is lappi.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
19 Aug 12
hi fanta nope my computer is fine as no problems on any other site.so it wa s a mylot glitch for sure. thanks for the offer bu t of course I wou ld not accept y our sweetheart lappi. cheers and hug s.
@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
19 Aug 12
I don't know what caused this, but you have lots of sympathy from me. I have spent the entire day trying to figure out why my editor on a new workpress.org multi-author site was missing the icon to upload and place photos in the blog. Others were helping me over Facebook chat -- people who could get into the back end of the sight. They were seeing things on their screen that weren't on mine. I had to send screen shots. One managed to get the icon into my editor, but when I saved the draft it would disappear, and when I published it appeared to disappear into cyber space. In reality, it did publish, but it wouldn't show on my posts list as a published post. This was hanging for 24 hours. It was finally determined that two plug-ins I had no control over had conflicts. They deleted one of them and now it finally works. I knew it had to be something going on in the back end, since I do know how to blog in Wordpress and I knew this icon was missing. I hope you are able to solve your mystery.
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
23 Aug 12
hi g agarad political i ssues really are ahead of us all in t he US.yes f reedom to live in rural areas is a good goalk indeed., I was so glad I grew up on a farm, it was a great place to grow up in and life was natural and uncomplicated then.,
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
19 Aug 12
hi bagarad wow welcome back I have not seen you in ages. nope I did not solve my mystery but from that tab refusing to be closed I just though okay its an open page s o make a new discussion and so I did talking about some of the odd things happening lately in mylot. I tried everything to close that tab yet I would think the page was closed, come back and no there it sat waiting for me to make a new discussion so I did. he he sounds like you had had some problems too.I am glad yours was finally solved.
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@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
19 Aug 12
I still have one kink left to solve -- how to replace the picture of a red monster with my profile picture on my profile page. They are working on it. AS to why I've been gone so long, it's political season and there are many battles to fight for property rights, freedom to keep living in rural areas, and Prop 31 which will put a half-elected and half unelected board of twelve people above our elected officials in governing our state's compliance with the objectives of UN Agenda 21. I still have lots of documents to read to make sure I'm understanding this correctly. It's also really hot here, so I am escaping to the beach or the other house as often as possible, so I'm away from my computer more.
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@ARIES1973 (11426)
• Legaspi, Philippines
19 Aug 12
Was it not because of internet connection? I have no idea about these things because I am also new in myLot and I still have a lot of things to learn. Mine was just a personal opinion.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
19 Aug 12
hi Aries no as on all the other sites I had no problems at all so it had to be some m ylot glitches.your personal opinion is just fine and welcome to mylot Aries, stay and have f un as its really a great site.
@ajithlal (14716)
• India
8 Sep 12
I think sometimes odd things might happen in myLot. I do not think it had happened to me before. I think sometimes this kind of things do happen in myLot.
@ajithlal (14716)
• India
11 Sep 12
I think it might be to copy paste the thing after typing and just posting it and then if there is any error we can copy and paste it or copy to notepad or word.
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
8 Sep 12
hi ajithlal yes I think so too.today every comment I make I have to copy as otherwise something keeps sweeping off what I write.this is so weird but I just copy now so I do not have to keep rewriting things,.
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• United States
19 Aug 12
I still don't know why your discussion was deleted..I guess we're just bad, haha! Yes, these are the "weekend gremlins" which only show up on saturdays and sundays. Little buggers get into all kinds of stuff and mess everything up. Just think, they're sitting back watching us and laughing their heads off. Wait till the trolls come out, that will change everything and the gremlins will run and hide.
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
19 Aug 12
hi kashmere yep gremlins are at play and I was told my discusson was a du plicate so live and l earn, today I made a new discusson jus because I could not make the page close.so'gu ess it all comes out in the end I h ope.
@silverfox09 (4708)
• United States
18 Aug 12
I am getting some blank pages also , I refresh them just hope nothing was double .
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
19 Aug 12
o kay copy paste my second attem pt at comment flew off.i tried to refresh that blank page bu t it did not wo rk yet today I found this half written page I could not close the tab so I made a new discussion instead,. lol
@jaiho2009 (39141)
• Philippines
19 Aug 12
dear Hatley, The other I was not able to post reply to my own discussion, but I can post response to other topic/s.- very odd aint? Then, I cannot copy paste I have to log in, log out and restart my system but still the same thing happen Have a great weekend ma'm
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
19 Aug 12
hi j aiho wow and with me I tried refresh yesterday and did not get it back,.now today my work on another person;s discussion flew the coop and I found the half done yesterdays disc ussion,. I co u ld not close the tab so erased all the writing and made a new discusson weird things happen I guess,. lol
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
21 Aug 12
I've had things like this happen to me from time to time with the computer, but I have to admit that it isn't something that is exclusive to mylot. For me, the strangest thing is when I will close my browser and then later when I open the browser back up, it will go back to where I was before and it will look like what I had posted earlier didn't actually go through at all and then when I hit post or submit again, it will end up posting the same share on facebook or comment on here again.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
21 Aug 12
hi dorannmwin with me its all on mylot starting with half a discussion that disappeared off the page so I rewrote it and sadly it got deleted. but yesterday I saw this one tab, opened it and there was the half done page in black letters the one that had disappeared. I tried to just close the tab bu t it would not close so erased all that I had written and made this discussion about the weird things happening to me.I have had that double posting too and had to ask mylot to delete one of the two as it w as not my fault. and they did do it and were nice about it.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
18 Aug 12
Hatley aunty; Computer does certain things which laymen/women like us cannot make out. But it does what it is asked to do. Without knowing when we operate we instruct it to do certain things--we are not aware what we are telling -- similar my tab tool going to the right and it was restored. So do not worry. things will take their own way/course. good day.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
18 Aug 12
hi ravri well it made me write a new discussion thats allk mine' and not some copy so that m uc h I guess is good,. It is odd that u nlike most times I tried to close the tab yet i c ame back and it was still open so I just wrote a discussion about all the odd'things happening..so now I have written a discussion agan and since its only pertaining to me it shou ld not break any rules either so thats good. lol