If you could change one thing in MyLot?

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@zeloguy (4911)
United States
January 28, 2008 3:01pm CST
If you had the power to request MyLot to change something what would it be? I really think the interface needs a facelift (no pun intended) and I would really like to see some ad banners so I can promot the site on my web site. What about you what is it you would change or do you like it how it is?
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@CherishC (249)
• United States
28 Jan 08
I would change the pay rates. I think we should get paid more then what we do. and I think my-lot should have games! like black jack, poker, slots, ect.
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@zeloguy (4911)
• United States
28 Jan 08
Games is a pretty cool idea. I feel pay should be 'fair' meaning that MyLot needs to pay the bills and they should also disclose how much is being sent out to us... if it is a percentage or whatever. I think that would help us all and of course the games would just keep us here longer. Great answer.
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@zeloguy (4911)
• United States
29 Jan 08
I would HIGHLY doubt it's 60/40... I would say more like 80/20 if that.
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@zeloguy (4911)
• United States
29 Jan 08
I haven't been there forever but iwon.com was/is the same way. Also Pogo.com you can win playing there... there are a lot of sites out there.
@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
28 Jan 08
I would like to see our referrals become an automatic friend so we can encourage them to be active..I already contacted mylot about this and hope I get a reply soon..
@zeloguy (4911)
• United States
28 Jan 08
Yes I agree with this as well...
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@zeloguy (4911)
• United States
29 Jan 08
Get back with them if possible and send them a message (if you know them to let them know). I didn't know the power of 'friends' for over a year here on MyLot.
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• United States
29 Jan 08
Problem with that is, my referrals that didn't accept me, doesn't have friends either. It is like they signed up and then never returned.:(
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@polachicago (18716)
• United States
29 Jan 08
I would get rid of useless stars...mine always look like Russian revolution... I would add counting when we reply to our responds. I would add total number of our posts. I don't have a clue how many posts I start on Mylot total. I would like to be able to see who is online. If we keep rating system, I wish to know who rated me and be able to block the user. It will stop bullies and abusive comments forever from not responsible users.... Happy Mylotting!
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@polachicago (18716)
• United States
29 Jan 08
Yuwie does...
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@zeloguy (4911)
• United States
29 Jan 08
I'll have to check that out definately.
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@zeloguy (4911)
• United States
29 Jan 08
Aww I like the stars... and they do help me sometimes when I see some post I don't even understand or is vulgar or whatever and they are 3 stars or something and I go, OK see that this is not even worth answering. Knowing who rated you would be nice but I don't know of anywhere that does that. Even AskYahoo.com and others don't do that.
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@dynaweb (168)
• United States
28 Jan 08
I enrolled in MyLot in expectation that they would improve the "look & feel" of the GUI. The "grey" thing looks really washed out. And I absolutely want some banners, I mean, why on earth would they choose not to provide them? Seems kinda lazy to me.
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@dynaweb (168)
• United States
28 Jan 08
Also, the top SEARCH function should ABSOLUTELY NOT DEFAULT TO WEB. People come to MyLot to search teh entire web? I don't think so. That's just silly or again lazy, gosh there is so much I don't know where to go next. How about the notion that we are discussing this without the presence of the admin here. THEY should be asking these kinds of things. Again, apathetic.
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@zeloguy (4911)
• United States
28 Jan 08
I agree with the web thing but there are two things I will say for that. 1. it is AJAX to changing it to MyLot doesn't refresh the screen making it faster to search 2. that is how they make their money so they can pay us what they pay us.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
29 Jan 08
What I would like to have the friends change to notify me on their profile page and not to appear until after you have made them your friend. So supposing there is a member called ZenaPrincessoftheDawn, until ZenaPrincessoftheDawn becomes my friend, the "notifyme" if you want post to appear by email" the notify me will appear either under or around her avatar. It would make it easier rather than going all the way through the friends lists.
@zeloguy (4911)
• United States
29 Jan 08
I agree with that. I also would like to have notification ON as a default (it makes sense I'm adding you for a reason) and to have people you have brought in automatically added as a friend.
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@jhl930 (3601)
• United States
28 Jan 08
I also wish they had banners that you could post to promote the website. I also wish that it would be easier to understand about how to do certain things....but i've been on mylot.com for about 24 hrs now, and I am learning more and more as time goes on. All in all I really do like mylot.com I wish that I'd have heard about it alot sooner.
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@polachicago (18716)
• United States
29 Jan 08
great, do you know if we can used those banners?
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@zeloguy (4911)
• United States
29 Jan 08
Heck I'm going to use them if they're posted on the site.
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• Philippines
29 Jan 08
well personally i think, mylot has the best setup over all the other PTP sites ive seen, it is very user friendly, all the links you need are located in you left screen, with other PTP site, you have to navigate the site first before finding your earnigns refs etc... i dont think i would change anything with mylot, except probably the rate :) hehe
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@zeloguy (4911)
• United States
29 Jan 08
To change the payrate they need to make more money as a company so SOMETHING has to change. They actually DO have a toolbar and it is completely useless. That needs to be redone and I would use that instead of my SU toolbar.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
29 Jan 08
larger payouts, and relaxation on the rules,
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
29 Jan 08
you need to read the guidelines of what you are allowed to do and what you cannot do on mylot, we are all supposed to check all previous discussion before we post just in case someone else has a similar discussion i think that is ridiculous, with all the people on my lot what difference does it make if the discussion is similar, your connections are not my connections different people will be participating on different discussions and the responses will not be the same.
• United States
29 Jan 08
Which rules are you trying to relax? Just curious.
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@zeloguy (4911)
• United States
29 Jan 08
What rules... didn't know we had a rulebook we were playing by here. Please enlighten us... thanks.
• Atlantic City, New Jersey
28 Jan 08
My suggestion is not really a change but more of an addition- I would like to see an editor (i.e. word, notepad) in the respond and post disscussion sections.
@zeloguy (4911)
• United States
28 Jan 08
and possibly the addition of HTML... a very easy fix that they could do (it is almost built into the programming and if they wanted to go further there are tons of scripts out there). Another great idea.
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@fineartist (1217)
• United States
29 Jan 08
What an interesting question! :) I would like to self-promote here and I am unable to do so. This is of course very selfish on my part! LOL I think the site is very well organized. However, I found it very difficult to arrange my sorties effectively, so I would like the sorties to be more user-friendly. Also it would be very nice to be paid more money for participating on this site. :-)
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@zeloguy (4911)
• United States
29 Jan 08
We will get into self-promotion in another post (add me as a friend to get the notification). The sorties... I have given up on them I just can't spend the time to figure it out. More money means change and that is what we are all trying to do here.
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• United States
28 Jan 08
i would like to get paid more... of course lol but also i would like them to give us some way to do referral exchanges sice most people on mylot are into finding new ways to earn online
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@zeloguy (4911)
• United States
29 Jan 08
I completely agree with you on that.
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@Estina54 (385)
• United States
29 Jan 08
I would like more freedom of expression from Mylot, to give us the opportunity to promote the site, and not to penalize us when for somebody's low rating without finding out if the person was too upset, or in a bad mood when they rated us, or it is us who said something that don't match their guidelines.
@jason1308 (1586)
• France
28 Jan 08
I find the interface a bit slow and bland, and of course would also like an increase in the pay rates, but who wouldn't. Adverising Banners or splash pages would be nice to make it easier to recruit new members, and then to have them added to your friends lst automatically, after all, you have recruited them and it seems daft to ask them to be friends. Also I would also like to easily see more of the catergories that I have picked out as favourites, a its a chore having to go through them all, so most of the time just pick from the most recent ones.
@zeloguy (4911)
• United States
29 Jan 08
I agree you need to see more of the categories. It seems like with the ones I have the same cagegories are always on the side and if I write about something that is not in those categories then I will get very little to no answers.
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@miller1978 (1101)
• United States
28 Jan 08
well after just a few days here I would say make it more user friendly. It took me a bit to figure out how to reply to discussions without it being in another person's comment. I like most of the set up and I also agree with the banner links. I would love to add it to a few other places so I could have more friends join.
@zeloguy (4911)
• United States
28 Jan 08
I agree. It is a little daunting on how to get around and every once in a while I want to do something and go.... how did I get to that screen I need... it's pretty easy once you've been here a while. Banners, banners, banners.... PLEASE!
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@MGjhaud (23099)
• Philippines
4 Feb 08
I’d like mylot to put a Variety category in Blogs because I can’t put mine because it doesn’t belong to any category they have. The rest are okay, I have no problem with the color or something like that. What I wanted before is they will send available discussions to my email account and now they made it and I’m so glad they did. I like it.
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@zeloguy (4911)
• United States
5 Feb 08
That sucks when you can't find a place to put what you want on here... a variety or misc category would be a great idea.
• Canada
29 Jan 08
I think it would be interesting if MyLot also allowed video as well as pictures and writing. I think it would be interesting to see some of the videos that people take during their day to day lives.
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@zeloguy (4911)
• United States
29 Jan 08
I don't know if I certainly agree with that perosnally but that is what this discussion is all about is getting ideas out there and HOPEFULLY have MyLot read them and let them know we want change (jeez sounding like a politician... I NEED TO VOTE TODAY). If they know we are passionate for change and don't want to put up with or better yet not satisfied with what is here I would think that would be a catalyst for them to do some changes.
@Ravenladyj (22904)
• United States
30 Jan 08
I'd actually like the ability to do bold, underline and italic as well as having smiley icons AND most definately a block feature..that would be SO handy LOL
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@zeloguy (4911)
• United States
30 Jan 08
If you frequent forums you will see there is a little editor that is built into them and I can't see why it is so difficult for MyLot to incorporate something like that into their system here. I totally agree with you that is something that needs to be added.
@arwenrey (315)
• Philippines
30 Jan 08
I want to change the pay rate it is really very small, i think that's it. Somehow mylot serves as helpful site to vent out some things that you don't want to vent out to the people you know, that's why i like this site they pay you to vent out your thoughts and ideas.
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@zeloguy (4911)
• United States
30 Jan 08
It is also good for the people at MyLot that there are things we care about. As I have mentioned before in order to get us more money they need to make more money and that is what we are trying to do... find what they can do to be more successful.
@maximax8 (31053)
• United Kingdom
29 Jan 08
You know on the left hand side of the screen there are discussions from your interests that have been posted so many minutes ago. Well I think it would be nicer if each My Lot user could choose eight top interests instead. Mine would be travel, traveling, life, enjoy life, people, questions and answers, dogs, relationships and My Lot. That way I could find discussions about my favorite interests first without having to search for them.
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@zeloguy (4911)
• United States
29 Jan 08
Mine always seem to be the same and very similar to yours.
@maximax8 (31053)
• United Kingdom
29 Jan 08
Yes, our interests are quite similar hey. I think we often reply the same discussions. Travel is my top interest and sometimes it can come under many different headings and traveling is a more popular topic than travelling.
@overdosed (230)
• Philippines
29 Jan 08
I want an edit button. I find it kinda irritating when I need to correct something I posted - and I can't do anything about it. Thank God we use a pseudonym here. If the people whose works I edit will see the mistakes I've made here, they're gonna stone me! Hehehe.