Reporting

I have not reported anyone since I started participating in Mylot. This most probably because I think the administration is able to know the discussions that violates the terms without necessarily having anyone reporting.

The decision to report or not is a personal one. You have certainly made some good arguments on why someone would personally not want to do so. While I encourage it, I don't necessarily expect in any hard core way for everyyone to report. But it is helpful and benefits the community. While I do regularly peruse through discussions looking for violation and find a good number of them on my own, it would be impossible to find them all or even a large number of them with out the reports. It would mean my spending all day and night reading every single response and comment in every single discussion posted. As much as I enjoy reading, this is not an attractive prospect.

I do not report anything except a troll allknowing. Recently I had a troll in one of my discussions where I could suddenly see a link to some God forsaken website below every response of one of my discussions and I reported this immediately. Otherwise, I would not do it except when it is abusive or so[ this is something I have not done so far whether it is a friend, favorite ,mere acquaintance or newcomer.]but I have not had the misfortune to see one .

Stymied, my dear! Morally, ethically, I do NOT have a hard and fast rule, about how I conduct my day to day activities here. (I guess another example of my some-what laissez-faire outlook.) I HAVE reported in the past, only after the buttons were pushed REALLY HARD...or a very blatant incident. BUT, never have I reported some-one I deem, of whom I care. If I thought some-one I care for, may have over-stepped the boundaries...I would stick my toe in the water and, either PM or e-mail them for clarification! I have tho, jumped fully into the water in defense of my friends here, when I find they are trolled or flamed...that is something that get's my "little army of ire" motivated. In my opinion, there seems to be quite a contingent, of possibly self-appointed "regulatory ambassadors" here, keeping most in check. And as an honest "cop out"...I come to "myLot" mostly as an escapism, from my everyday world...already frought with "rules and regs."

I don't report usually.I see a discussion going so well and all of a sudden a newbie with his ignorance pastes his referral link in the middle and cause the discussion to be deleted.It is so frustrating to see newbie like that.I wish the moderator deletes the responses of such things alone and not delete the entire discussion.Besides the money for that discussion going away,all the information shared by so many people is also going away.What do you say about this.

In fact, I highly believe that if my posts were being deleted, mostly it is because someone has reported it. I tend to be on grey area, I have several good arguments about why Admin shouldn't delete my certain posts, but I am too lazy to argue :P. I highly believe it's because an older member (or even a member who are stricter than Admin himself!) had reported it . People tend to think that Admin always right in his decision, though, so let it be.. :P So with this kind of situation, I don't really bothered to report some posts..

I am not the reporter..lol...it has to be something major for me to do it...whether I like them or not. I like the old saying Live and let live...now that is as long as it is not something all out abusive. Then..that is a different story.