Please STOP!!!!

I feel your pain. It really is getting more and more difficult to find quality posts. I pretty much stick to my friends discussions now. I am posting a lot less because of it but at least the discussions are intelligent and thoughtful for the most part.

I only started posting the day before yesterday but I have to say I agree with you. I managed to earn just short of a dollar yesterday but that was because I spent all day online sifting through the crap. I came across one page where every single post was started by the same person asking questions that you only needed to answer with a Yes or No. So much for Quality posting eh?

I understand how you feel right now. It is so frustrating and annoying to see this kind of topics really. Lately i've been loosing interest on answering discussions or posting cos of when you look for interesting discussions all that you can see is all this non sense stuff which is posted by same member. I mean, you can post anything and everything here but please make it a quality one.

Thank God someone else noticed besides me. Yes, I totally agree with you. I've been reporting them, but then couldn't keep up with them all so I started "-" all of their discussions. I hope that others are doing the same thing. There's a guy that's doing it as we speak (nageki) and he's been doing it for days. I've reported him, and some others, often, so I hope something gets done about it. Maybe enough people will respond to this discussion and myLot will get the hint that us serious posters just don't like it!!! I've started a list to keep track of these jerks. I've got 9 on the list so far and just recently started. I even keep track of their current "star" rating and then see what happens after I've reported them numerous times. One guy was brought from a 9 to a 7. The guy I mentioned above has TONS of posts, and no star - so I'm apparently not the only person noticing. We all need to report these people. We need to stand up and tell myLot what's wrong with the discussion when we report it. I also try to include how it affects the overall "feel" of the myLot community. I just think if we spell it out, we might get more of a response. I suggested to myLot, while reporting abuse, that they desperately need a site moderator who reads all posts before they appear on the site. That's the only way I think these jerks will get the hint. I think if too many are denied from the same person, they should be removed from myLot. Maybe if we all requested that too, it might happen (getting a site moderator I mean). Oh boy, you got me started. I could go on and on with this forever. But, I'll stop now! Just remember that we can all take a stand against these jerks who are abusing the system!!!

Well, I found someone posting a sixteen discussoin in less then ten minutes. I found one, I posted in it. Then the SAME PERSON makes a new disucssion on the same topic 2 minutes later? HUH!? the person a similar topic in less then 5 five minutes. and flood more comes by with the same similar ones.

I feel your pain. I want to have good, constructive discussions here (in addition to making a bit of money of course) but when I open up a discussion page like the "computers" page today for example and find the entire first page taken up by subjects created by the same poster on just random computer stuff that could be looked up in a a couple of seconds, it's frustrating. They're ruining this site with their mindless discussions just to earn an extra penny. I've tried my best to keep my responses constructive and to the point and to not just make new discussions in order to earn money, but having to sift through pages and pages of discussions created by the same person is kind of turning me off to this site. It's becoming watered down by people more interested in upping their post count than actually having good conversation. And it's not like we can just reply to all of their discussions because many will be deleted in the future anyway. I hope the mods here start cleaning this up though because it is very frustrating.

Well I totally agree with you there but we will never stop it no matter what we say. They just want to make money, so they are posting stupid Discussions, not because they want to know or they don't know what it is. I don't even reply to them. I know it is a pain fighting past these to get a decent Discussion but we will never stop it.

sad to say we all noticed that, some user get this site wrong... they think that mylot is all about money and nothing. actually whenever i read this kind of discussion i give them negative ratings just to let the admin know that this person is flooding the discussion and see some actions.

I clearly understand your stand here pagibig (nice username btw; means love, right?) and i commend you for bringing it up. Its really annoying to see posts that doesn't make sense and it's so pathetic for those users for are doing such when they can enjoy sharing views in this community. It's very obvious that these people are hitting it that way thinking that it could increase their earnings. Anyway, sensible users here knows how to distinguish such posts and as for me, i simply don't reply to it but make it a point to hit the (-) sign.

what annoyed me was i saw a reply to a post and there was a paragraph UNDER the reply saying stupid crap like dont read this. i am just writing a longer reply to get money. my mom is a ho, blah blah, blah. Seriously the blah blah was IN the reply. I get so mad because some people get on here trying to get easy money and post stupid replies like that? It just irks my buttons when people put actual effort into replies and posts and people do crap like that!

I agree with you so very much. I dont like wasting my time going through all those pages of useless discussion either. Sometimes I find it hard to arrange things so that I can have time to come to My Lot during the day, and I end up wasting time with that kind of thing. Very frustrating. But other than that, I have been enjoying my self on this site. I guess all we can really hope for, is that they get bored of themselves, and finally stop. I dont think anyone really responds to such discussions, anway.

There are over 70,000 people registered to use this site. If only 3% start discussions, that is about 2,000 topics. Out of those 2,000 topics, maybe at most 200 will be interesting or different. So, at any one time, the vast majority of topics will be dull, rehashes, over talked about, things that don't interest you, silly (as you have mentioned), senseless, pointless or disgusting. You are right, many topics could be answered by doing a search or finding info on the web. There are only so many topics that are truly intersesting out of thousands.

Now I have a question. When these bad posters keep doing this, doesn't it make our discussions for further and further toward the back? I mean, it will be more difficult for ours to be seen, because there's is in the way, right? It looks to me like the most recently posted is on top, as well as most recently responded to. I could be wrong, as I'm still a newbie, kind of. Any thoughts on this?

Hello pagibig........ I agree.........There are too many mind numbing pathetic worthless so called discussions here on mylot that I can barely find any worth responding to. From the posted rules.....quality is supposed to be the most important factor. From what I've seen......very few can tell the difference between a quality discussion and crap. Maybe if the monitors read this they'll take the hint. I would not bet on it though. Tom

oh yess!! I saw this yesterday..it is insane!! theer were like 30 questions all in a row of like what do white blood cells do..chemical elements, simple things that yes all they have to do is look up on the net..its rediculous!! And i really feel it is abuse..there is no real way to discuss it than rather just look it up on Wikpedia..now if it was a collage kid needing an answer..i wouldnt mind.,.,but 30 questions? give me a break.,.I think they shoudl be reported and let mylot decide if they should be deleted..because i fele they should be..RRRR!!!

I know what you mean but try not to let it upset you because it has been happening for a long time now. Many people think the more they post the more they make which isn't entirely true. The more quality posts the more money they'll make. Just do your best to ignore them cause they aren't worth the effort. What I find works for me is if you develop a group of friends ones that you know post quality stuff and then when you sign on and go into discussions instead of having to page through crap you just go to discussions my friends started and you'll have quality stuff to look at. I find this helps so much more. Good Luck.

Look, a lot of people on here have limited English and do the best they can. Most came on Mylot to practice their high school English, required in many countries, just like many of us had to take French, Spanish or German in ours. As the daughter of a Turkish WWII war bride, I've known my mother to struggle until the end of her life with our language and I couldnt stand when people gave her dirty looks because she mangled a word or asked them to repeat themselves. I saw the posts you were talking about (atm) and what she did was get a stupid, short 3-word answer for the intials "atm" and didnt understand. So she made a new post asking the full name to see if someone would help her understand further. It doesnt help if she doesnt understand the definition in English to translate it in her language to search for it on her computer. Her computer is set in her home language or do you think everyone's computer is in English? If you want to vent, tell Mylotans to stop giving short answers like that which confused her. This is an international forum. Those giving the short answers are probably the same ones who vent, wondering why half their answers were cancelled at the end of the month! So be patient and remember, someone in your family one time had to struggle with the English language! Be kinder.

I agree with you, there are tons of people that do this, that is why we have to report it as spam and get them removed. Next time, please report it. That way, our forum will be clear for all honest, good, and intelligent discussions and not for people that do not care about anyone other than themselves. I am glad that this discussion will promote awareness of the issue and get others to stop and report, what they see.

If people read the guidelines then maybe there might be some sensible posts coming through! Thankfully I have found a few that I can respond to! Having short one liners is no good for newbies to learn with either. Ive never been really one for the one lined messeges. Some I resond to in vein, but just to try get them coming away from those silly one liners that they have been posting! Ive only been a member just over a couple of weeks and love to read a good messege and try to give genuine feedback! Lets hope this improves for everyone Lynn-Marie

Probably just trying to start discussions although irrelevant. Some people don't care about quality post, they care about quantity which is not a good strategy here in mylot. guality beats quantity all the time. I've proven it myself.