Digging and Scraping
By Jim Bauer
@porwest (90118)
United States
November 8, 2023 9:29am CST
It's a Porwest thing. Don't ask me why. Perhaps I suffer an endless curiosity. Or maybe I am just perpetually bored. But I dig and scrape the bottom around here often.
Do you ever do that?
What I mean is, go back. Sometimes go way back. To old posts. Go into a profile and scroll down.
Some aren't as relevant, but usually there's still something interesting enough to find. Hundreds of thousands if not millions of unanswered, unread posts. New to my eyes at least. And often still worth my time and effort to find them, read them, and comment on them.
I like to think I am breathing new life in them as well. Although I know that is mostly untrue. In order for that to happen people would have to rediscover these old relics along with me in most recent activity.
But hardly anyone ever checks that.
So, I guess it's just me and whoever I can find within those old posts who enjoy the pleasure of rekindling them in some small, unimportant way.
I do often wonder, though, of the members who are not active anymore, if I click a like or respond to a comment of theirs, wherever do their pennies go?
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9 responses
@LindaOHio (178096)
• United States
9 Nov 23
I like when you go back to old posts because it's interesting for me too. Have a great day. The slush fund is for a member cruise.
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@LindaOHio (178096)
• United States
9 Nov 23
@porwest It is just a joke, silly! I wish it were true though.
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@porwest (90118)
• United States
9 Nov 23
@LindaOHio Oh. I kind of figured. But you know...coming from you...I was like, wait a minute. What? lol
Gosh, I feel like such a fool. Fell for that one hook, line and sinker. Hell, bobber too!
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@allknowing (136086)
• India
9 Nov 23
I have seen you doing that with a couple of my vintage posts.
No point in responding to posts where the users are nowhere to be seen. You can visit their profiles and see when it was the last they were here.
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@porwest (90118)
• United States
9 Nov 23
I don't mind responding to people who will never respond to me actually. I guess, at the end of the day, if it adds even a little something to the post MAYBE it shows up in a search and MAYBE someone who finds it decides, "Hey, maybe this is for me," signs up and myLot gains a new member.
You just never know. But one thing I do know is that we need more members, and if that's the only contribution I make, or it puts some extra pennies in myLot's pocket they will never have to pay out...MAYBE that helps too?
I have no idea. But I don't care if ever see a dime from those old posts. My job here, if you wanted to call it a job, is to interact. And interact I will.
I always try to think outside the box and try to see what the REAL contribution is I make here. To the site. To its other members. Active or not.
Everyone always says, "I am not here for the money." Yet, most people interact in a way that is only about the money.
At the same time, it has happened before, SOME of these old members have email notifications set up, and SOME of them see a post was responded to and come back and respond. You just never know.
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@allknowing (136086)
• India
9 Nov 23
@porwest The situation as it stands today is pathetic when it comes to members coming here to interact. And they have vanished merely because the paying rate has gone down sizeably.
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@porwest (90118)
• United States
9 Nov 23
@allknowing It really has. I wasn't sure if it was true when I first heard about it as I was gone for 5 months. But sure enough, the same amount of activity now generates aboiut 50% to 60% of what it used to. It's a shame.
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@RebeccasFarm (89831)
• Arvada, Colorado
8 Nov 23
I rarely do that, but I see you do.
I have noticed.
But your photo reminded me of metal detecting..why don't you do a series of videos on that to see what you find.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
8 Nov 23
I've no idea, maybe in the mylot payment pot. Maybe your at least helping mylot.
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@dgobucks226 (35574)
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11 Nov 23
Hmm, what's old is new again. Kind of like fashion in a way. Or put in a musical sense, an "Oldie but Goodie." Yes, one can find a "diamond in the ruff" just digging around. I agree with your wholeheartedly! If only I had your patience to do so... 
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@dgobucks226 (35574)
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13 Nov 23
@porwest Ha, ha! Just for this month my friend.
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@porwest (90118)
• United States
14 Nov 23
@dgobucks226 I got a little worried for a sec we wouldn't see you after Thanksgiving. lol
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@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
8 Nov 23
I am doing that now. I have been absent for a few years now and just returned to myLot. Catching up on things is a slow process but I'm enjoying it. Since I'm not as active as I used to be it's also a source of education and entertainment.
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@RasmaSandra (79714)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
9 Nov 23
I have all my articles from even past sites that no longer exist saved in folders on my PC. Occasionally I dust them off and create entirely new articles and sometimes combine one or two more, But those are my own writings,
@Marilynda1225 (82710)
• United States
8 Nov 23
I haven't gone back and dug up old posts. Lately I've been having trouble keeping up with new ones
I'm sure I've missed a good number of very old posts that would be worth reading.
I'm sure I've missed a good number of very old posts that would be worth reading.1 person likes this
@porwest (90118)
• United States
8 Nov 23
I have been having a bit of fun with it, even commenting on posts I will never get a response from. In a way I feel like I am helping myLot make some pennies since I assume they will never have to pay anything out for them. lol
Plus, I have been a bit the opposite. Since I returned to the site after a 5-month break, it seems like the site is not nearly as active as it was, and so I've had more time to peak around a bit at some older stuff.
