Have you ever reported an inappropriate discussion on MyLot?

The only time I have heard anything from MyLot is when one of my responses was deleted because the discussion was removed. It's been awhile since that's happened so I can't remember how the discussion was inappropriate.

If you see anyone copying something which you wrote and trying to pass it off as their own, that person is a cheat who is trying to defraud both you and MyLot and SHOULD be reported. We do not want or need people here who do that. If the discussion was simply very similar to one of yours, it was probably an innocent mistake, however. In most cases, you should remember that you are not reporting a person but merely something they have posted. It's our duty (as members who know and take care to follow the rules) to tell Admin about anything we see which is against the rules, just as it is our duty, as citizens, to pick up litter in the street when we can and to put it in the bin. Please help to keep MyLot 'tidy' and a good place for everyone to be in!

Up until now, I don't know that I've seen much copying. I did once see a discussion that seemed word for word like one I had seen previously, and my memory isn't THAT good. There are sometimes that I might try to re-start a discussion. Like I tend to try and start discussions under "Watching TV" where I complain about some TV commercials or discuss TV shows. That's not really copying though because there are always new TV commercials to complain about or new TV shows worth watching. One of my pet peeves, however, are cable TV networks here in the US that no longer show what they were intended to show. Like The Weather Channel running shows at night about Fireworks or Gold Mining. What do things like that have to do with the weather. People want to know what tomorrows weather is going to be not see shows about past weather disasters. I've actually found myself using my Roku to stream a weather channel just to find out a weather forecast. OH, well enough complaining. Sorry if I damage you eyes with it.

This makes me think of two things, one of MyLot and one not. On MyLot I have what I am starting to think is a bad habit of looking at postings in Politics and sometimes posting a response. I consider myself a moderate but I get into problems posting in discussions with ultra conservatives. These are people who do things like compare Obama (or Franklin Roosevelt) with Hitler. When i try to point out the mistakes made by Ronald Reagan or Bush 43, I get vilified. I guess in life there is a second golden rule, "Don't argue with someone about politics or religion" because you can't win. The second thing I thought of was someone that I 'friended' on Facebook. This was a woman and it was back when I was excited about playing Mafia Wars and I was looking for as many 'friends' as I could find to do well in the game. Shortly after I added her, I saw that she wasn't playing the game as much and she seemed more interested in posting photos of her body parts and her various tattoos. As if that weren't enough, she somehow added me to a group where she and others we posting crude jokes and questionable photos. While I don't consider myself a prude, I don't really need to see that stuff especially if someone else might see it by looking at my FB page. I removed myself from the group and unfriended the woman.

grrr I did edit this but my corrections are not shown would and you

I don't know that I can accurately recreate one of my deleted discussion starts but here at least is a summary. It was a few years ago when I heard they were developing a fourth movie in the Mad Max series from Australia. The original movies had helped make Mel Gibson a star but as he was having his well documented legal problems, I mentioned that it did not look like he was going to be in the new movie. I did mention that Nicholas Hoult was going to be in it. I knew of Hoult from the British show Skins and it was while I was researching him that I came upon mention of the Mad Max sequel. Where I may have gotten in trouble, was that I ended the post by asking a question something like "Are you interested in the new movie?" or "Will you see the new movie?". Next thing I knew, I got a response from someone telling me I violated the rules and then got an e-mail telling me my discussion was deleted. I'm still not sure what I did wrong. Yes, someone could respond with only a yes or no answer, which is a violation, but that was not what I expected. I was trying to see if anyone was excited that they were renewing the series, or if anyone would make comments about Mel Gibson. I never got to find out because it was deleted.

Have you ever gone back to see if the post was removed or if the poster was kicked out of MyLot? I think you can often spot these people because they have very few posts.