Now I am getting ANGRY!!!
By volschenkh
@volschenkh (1043)
South Africa
December 23, 2006 12:14pm CST
Just been repremanding a user on MyLot for posting an irrelevant quote from Wikipedia to a specific topic. So I go and look at his profile and specifically to "His Best Responses". Well it turns out he is answering with one word replies and people (probably his scam mates) are marking them as "best response". And he has ocer 2000 points. This make me angry considering the ever increasing strictness of MyLot against users below 500 points.
We have to stand together people, and mark them negatively, the more neative ratings they get, the less they will get paid for their 1000's of one word replies!!!
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65 responses
@volschenkh (1043)
• South Africa
23 Dec 06
Wish I could do that, but I dont want to get in trouble with MyLot. Ill give you a clue though its a discussion called "World Wide Mystery" by teenal, look at the last response she received, there you will find the culprit.
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@PuteriBugis (233)
•
24 Dec 06
Berlin, I agree with you. I find that myLot administrators here is doing fair game. So, do not be taken aback when seeing other members with high ratings resulting from doing something unhealthy responds or open a THREAD with an unhealthy topic here.
Ok, we are welcome to report this kinda matter to myLot. Then we move on try to better our own way of looking at things and have more confidence since we are truly honest and sincere here.. SMILE :D
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@lauriefnp (5109)
• United States
23 Dec 06
Great detective work- I'm impressed!!
I'm with you 100%, as are a lot of people here. I'm wasting a lot of my time reporting abuse and giving negative ratings, but if it will clean this place up then it's worth a few weeks of hell.
Keep up the good work!
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@volschenkh (1043)
• South Africa
23 Dec 06
Thanks for you positive feedback. I hate playing detective, and really just sumbled upon this by looking into his profile. Keep up the good work yourself!
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@lauriefnp (5109)
• United States
23 Dec 06
I forgot to add this: If we get rid of these spammers, then there will be more money to spread around for those of us who are using this site correctly.
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@volschenkh (1043)
• South Africa
23 Dec 06
Thanks again! You are absolutely right!
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@kgwat70 (13387)
• United States
23 Dec 06
That is ashame that there are those types of people on here trying to ruin the purpose and content of this website. I do give negative ratings for one word or really short answers. I think mylot is monitoring the situation as carefully as they can.
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@volschenkh (1043)
• South Africa
23 Dec 06
Tnaks for letting me know mate, keep on rating them as you are! Thats the only defense we have on this forum!
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@volschenkh (1043)
• South Africa
23 Dec 06
I dont mind a reference to Wikipedia if the topic is relevant. But this guys is copying and pasting random paragraphs it seems. No that is just WRONG!!!
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@greengal (4286)
• United States
23 Dec 06
Oh no, not another one! When will these people ever learn! I wish they are eliminated real soon from myLot. As you said his friends will definitely be marking his reply as the best respone..or even worse just bcoz he replied he might have got a best response rating!! Some discussions are dumb and if somebody replies, its a relief to the one who started it..so u never know!!
@volschenkh (1043)
• South Africa
23 Dec 06
Absolutely agree with you, if there is a system to cheat someone will find a way to cheat. All we can do is mark them negatively. I have hoped there was a function on MyLot through which you report spammers, that would make life just so much easier.
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@learnandearn (254)
• China
24 Dec 06
There is a possibility that "their friends" are maybe just their different accounts, and they use them to mark and reply to their own discussions.There must be some good way to stop these guys, like keep one account for one ip.
@satya_music (586)
• India
23 Dec 06
Clearly a thought after my own heart . Its we the lot who're encouraging them by not demarking them.Surly it would be a great example if these cheaters are confiscated of all there scores
@volschenkh (1043)
• South Africa
23 Dec 06
I think MyLot is doing that, they do delete discussion which are useless and just there to generate the traffic. Lets hope they can get to all of them on MyLot.
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@volschenkh (1043)
• South Africa
23 Dec 06
Thanks for your support, ive been doing that for the last hour, while I could have made valuable contibutions to the discussions on MyLot. Its a shame that we have to waste our time with these oxygen scavengers.
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@Ohara_1983 (4117)
• Kuwait
23 Dec 06
can i ask if you don't mind sir because im a new here at mylot
what is "wikipedia" means? because lot people here at mylot are complaining the people who always using the "wikipedia". and also i encountered also one of the member's here are he copied and paste the discussion of other's. so im totally shock that why they do that? instead of they share thier own ideas so they must choose to coppy it and post it as a responce to the other threads? but don't worry they reported already they don't have now a discussions to his thread. by the way sir keep up the good work.... to informed us.
@Ohara_1983 (4117)
• Kuwait
23 Dec 06
and also mostly they are (_ _ _ _ _)5 word sir:)
you got me? they are mostly a cheater's they only like to do an easy way
that's why...
@volschenkh (1043)
• South Africa
24 Dec 06
Wikipedia is a online dictionary wher you can search for almost any topic for free.
http://en.wikipedia.org/
@kyle930 (763)
• United States
23 Dec 06
Ok lets work togethor to conquer the evil doers of mylot. Just report them and they should get the problem fixed. Someone should start a post of people who are doing this. That way everyone would know who to report. Thats such a good idea im going to do it immediately.
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@volschenkh (1043)
• South Africa
23 Dec 06
Ditto. I am on a mission. It would be great if everyone can do this...if its a team effort we can stop these culprits!
@007Bond1974 (881)
• Philippines
23 Dec 06
count me in volschenkh....this is a place for intellectual discussion,.friendly advice and sharing...not merely a moneymaking scheme.i realy hope they managed to read your topic soi that they may change their ways!
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@volschenkh (1043)
• South Africa
23 Dec 06
Great stuff, if you spot them hit the ! button and report them! I am sure if MyLot webmasters sees a 100 or so reports against the same person they would take action!
@babray06 (1787)
• India
24 Dec 06
I can tell you mylot people are very intelligent and they have a great system in place which takes care of everything.
As Berlin has correctly pointed out that it is the quality which matters here. The result of which is clear now. These days we are only getting quality discussions. These people will fade out in due course.
I have also been sufferer. I have found out that at least two of my thread have been hijacked. In one case it was so blunt that I had to report the other one was more intelligent. In that case the wordings were changed only the meaning was same.
So these things will happen and we have to live with it.
@scholastic (728)
• India
24 Dec 06
i agree with u completely..and I am sad that some people with all the guidelines are still doing that..besides there are so many discusions now on things like mylot improvement, better discussion topics..i believe there should be conscious efforts from all of us to ensure quality here improves..and if that takes marking someone negative I think we should do that..
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@mvsrao (4365)
• India
24 Dec 06
I also posted from wikipedia . I always
try to give authentic & reliable information . And I do give the source .
As per the recent Mylot alerts , one
should not copy from other web sites
including wikipedia . And I am taking
care of it .
However I am also one among many
contributors for wikipedia . I am
aware of what should be copied -
and what not . if any one has any
thing against my posts should
report them . Mylot staff takes
care of them .
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@barryallen (941)
• United States
24 Dec 06
have you reported it already? if so, worry no more coz Mylot will take care of those kinds of member... necessary actions will be dealt accordingly..
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@ashiflett (1045)
• United States
24 Dec 06
I totally agree with you..this has to end.
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