going down in a blaze of glory

Oh I don't know but, there are a lot of members here that could use a nice stay in a padded cell. Just a few tons short of a load of bricks if I do say so.

I've go no idea really. I'm a moderator on another social site, and we got all kind of weird people. Some of them think the admins are evil and for some obscure reason mean that we should change the rules to make them feel better. It seems like they think that since they don't like the rules, they don't have to follow them. Then they get very upset when they're banned. Then there's idiots who try a bit more every time. In the end they're banned or deleted, and get very upset of course. We also got our fair share of plane idiots, one person posted a close-up of his rear-end. Very close close-up. No idea why.

hi jb my theory is a lot of people are new and bent on making big bucks and maybe dysletic or too easily bored, bored, bored so they do not read the TOS or the guidelines, thats boring they cry, and thus blaze ahead and chop everyone of the rules down as they type away. It must be fun to see all those notificaions that you user sostupid have broke six rules in your discussion. They think they are going to make fifty times what the rest of us make a nd get paid for all our responses. well sostupid user guess what, you do not get paid for our responses. and if its deleted you do not get paid for deleted crap either.Maybe they think they can scream mylot is a scam long enough and someone will hear them. or maybe'they are ten emotionally and get their kicks this way, as they sure won't make any money.I am puzzled too blue bunny and also puzzled as whey they think my telling them to read the mylot admins information is being mean or sarcastic. to me its just basic logic.

Did I miss something? I kind of like skirting the rules a teensy bit to see what I can get away with, but I'm not the sort that likes to blatantly break rules. Probably because I know I'll get caught....

You would not want to be in one of our cells. Sleep on cardboard or newspaper and no coverings to keep someone warm. Overcrowded too. Lousy food and no exercise. I suppose that some peope get a kick out of breakng rues. Thinks:I really must read them again. Perhaps their lives are so unfulfied as well. Who knows what goes on in their heads?

Perhaps they're trying to hard to be taken seriously. Poor social skills in their real life, so they try to portray themselves as exciting risk takers online? Bit sad, really, if they don't have insight. How come posts like this make me really paranoid? I'm going to have to go and check my recent posts now.

When people online feel that they are anonomys, they are tempted to be more lose with their tounge. Many people, in the real world, live a life that does not allow for such open dialogue with others. When they get to the online world, they feel free and start wagging the tounge, which can be exciting. Are your referring to a particular incident or just in general? On occasion I have asked myself how I would feel if someone I worked with or a relative read my posts and knew they were mine. It can help tone down some of the hot spots.

I think it is a matter of just doing it to see if they can. I believe there is a certain percentage of people who just have a superman complex and think that none of the rules apply to them. Is there a particular discussion or user that this is about?

Some people do it for kicks. They sign up to these sites with proxy ip's and fake email addresses only to be banned and sign up again with a new email address. The process goes on and on, repeated for as long as they can do it. For most people, it's not intentional, they simply don't read the rules and don't know that they're violating them. If they read the rules, then they would know what they're doing wrong. Some, like the ones who do it for kicks, do it for laughs, just to see how far they can go. You never know with some people.

Now, jb, you know the rules couldn't possibly apply to THEM! Those who do it intentionally do so because of their smug attitudes that convince them that they are entitled to behave in any way they please. Then there are those who are simply dense and, even after being repeatedly busted, still don't understand the concept of behaving yourself online. Of course, trolls are an entirely different animal...the arrive with the intent to push the limits and be as irritating as they possibly can be.

Well, I would say they do it because they have nothing else to do with their life. Could be that they have no one in their life because they were treated in such away that they feel separated from others and this is away to gain attention to them selves. Loners looking to get attention no matter how they do it. Some just get off of the reactions of others. Best way is to not react to these, rather report them and go on with what you and your life has going on. The more you react, the more you get involved, the more the person is getting what they want.

I think that some people thrive on the attention that they get from being trouble makers. We have an online forum as part of our website and one of the most prominent posters on the forum was also a bit of a trouble maker. He was very controversial in his views and a bit of an extremist and did not mind pushing his views down the throats of another members. Several people started leaving the forum as a result of being upset repeatedly by him. Moderators were also kept very busy with his posts as there were always a lot of reported posts. He had a few warnings and then finally my wife banned him. He was shocked by this but after talking it through with my wife, he decided that our forum was not really the place for him anyway. He needed his own website. He started his own forum and information site along with his girlfriend and they ended up taking a lot of our members with them. It turned out that we lost far more people after banning him than we did from having him there. He now has a massive following and is known throughout the world in our industry. But what do you do? He violated the TOS so many times that it just had to be done.

There are people who want to be provocative, to break the rules. I can't understand them either. It's difficult or even risky to do this in the real life. But here, on the net, you are hidden. So a sicial site like myLot is a good arena for every kind of violations.