MyLot Follows no need for………..
By Ann LeFlore
@poehere (15126)
French Polynesia
October 23, 2015 3:20pm CST
This week the suggestion button was removed from our posts. This is great because it was voted on. However, a few people still want to make sure their followers know when they add a new discussion. But, I feel they are going at this the wrong way.
Recently I have been receiving notification about a person mentioning me in their comment. When I go to see the comment I notice it’s a new post. What the person or persons have done now is add a @name (names of their followers) at the end of their comments.
This send each person they mention a notification to their box. Very cleaver but I consider this spamming. Yes I loved suggestions but I don’t like this. I wish you would stop adding my name to end of a comment so I receive a notification. I would rather you send me a message with your post asking me to read it.
Sorry guy/gals I felt like I needed to address this because if it continue everyone will start getting angry. We all have to go by the decision the majority voted on so let’s all play fair. No need to pad the end of a comment with a ton of @names so we all get a notification of your post.
Currently I find out that searching, commenting on interesting topics, and interacting with members I don’t know gets me a lot of views on my topics. I just feel like a few people are spamming me by adding a @name at the end of their comments.
How do you feel about this? Has it been happening to you?
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23 responses
@GoAskAlice (5807)
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24 Oct 15
I like to think that most people here are courteous and considerate. At this point in time, I am going to choose to believe that the members here will act in the spirit of good community and not abuse this. If it does become an issue, then we will of course have to look in to means to address it. But I don't think this is going to be a problem.
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@allknowing (130067)
• India
24 Oct 15
It is necessary that you report this to Admin. Such malpractices should stop.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
24 Oct 15
I think its important to report this activity too I'm glad to see that you have done that Owlwings .
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@poehere (15126)
• French Polynesia
24 Oct 15
You might be right but I would rather take an open approach to this problem first. I feel if they see this here and read it then they will stop without having to report them. But if they continue there might not be another way around this problem but to report them. I hate to do that and would rather give them a change to stop first.
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
24 Oct 15
The idea to add a user's name in comments per se is not bad. It could be used to draw another user's attention. However, if you feel that someone is using it excessively then you could ask the user not to do so.
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
24 Oct 15
@poehere Yeah, if the user has mentioned names of many users then it could be termed as spamming. Initial thought on reading your post was that the particular user was trying to mention your name only.
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@poehere (15126)
• French Polynesia
24 Oct 15
@dpk262006 I did center this post around my name so they would know I didn't like it. But no the truth is they had added anywhere from 8 to 12 @names after their comment. They did not use my @name in the post. It was added to the end of the comment along with others.
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
24 Oct 15
It has not happened to me but in bb its against the r ules to ask for
comments or l iikes on your posts so it should be here t oo after all its easy to find all the discussions why ask people to notice yours we all will see one others discussions and its free for us to comment o n the ones we want to .you write and take yhour chances that others will comment and if you interact people will want to interact with you its a social writing site after all. I would never tout my own posts they either speak for themselves or they do not. I love my mylot fri ends old 
and new and love interacting too
and new and love interacting too3 people like this
@poehere (15126)
• French Polynesia
24 Oct 15
@sugartoes NO NO it is not you and you have never spammed me at all. It is something one person started and a lot of people are now following. Spamming is when you leave a comment at the end of your post and use 10 @names to make sure your followers know you have a post. That's what I call spamming. Commenting and liking and leaving images is fantastic and what the site is all about. If you want me to read something please by all means send me a message. I will be more than happy to go and read your post. I love this and some people send me messages and I am so happy to read their posts. I just don't like to have a person tag me with an @poehere at the end of their comment along with other people so make sure I receive a notification and go to their post and read it. That's spamming. Not you.
@topffer (42156)
• France
23 Oct 15
I have not seen many abuse with this feature for the moment, although I have had to tell today to a member who did it several times in the same discussion to stop this running gag. It can indeed become as bad as spam if you are sent to discussions where you have nothing to do
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
24 Oct 15
@poehere I get the feel ing that suggestions were used the wrong way not to tell a friend about some post that they thought they m,ight l ike but to promote your own posts thats very? wrong no writing site likes that idea why should they
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@poehere (15126)
• French Polynesia
24 Oct 15
My point exactally. I loved the suggestions but now they are gone leave it. No need to cheat and revert to under handed tactics such as this.
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
24 Oct 15
hi val that is just what I said we will find the discussions we want to comment to nobody needs to help u s o n them. ilts a free site . we are free to choose whomevedr we wish to comment to and the more we all intreract the more others will respond to our discussioons no need to toot our own horns.
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@poehere (15126)
• French Polynesia
24 Oct 15
@Hatley I totally agree with all of you. I love to pick and chose topics to comment on. I love to interact with lots of different people. Maybe the topic they want me to read is not one I would of read anyhow. I feel like I can find my own topics to read and others can do the same.
@celticeagle (158731)
• Boise, Idaho
24 Oct 15
I wish we could get off the suggestion subject. I really liked it, felt I got a lot out of it and now it is gone. Just trying to deal and would appreciate it if we could just forget it existed, do a good job here, try to enjoy our time and set goals so we can reach pay out. Come on peeps.
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@celticeagle (158731)
• Boise, Idaho
25 Oct 15
@poehere ...I've seen that before. Wonder if it was on here. Hope we don't have these same people back again. Ugh!
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@poehere (15126)
• French Polynesia
24 Oct 15
I do agree with you on this one. This post was not centered around suggestions it was to point out bad practices and spamming. Adding a lot of @names at the end of a comment is cheating and trying to get people to go to their discussion. I basically was saying I don't like to be spammed and to stop adding @poehere at the end of your discussion so it send me a notification of your post. Just send me an email.
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@poehere (15126)
• French Polynesia
25 Oct 15
@celticeagle Looks like this post did the trick and they deleted all their @names at the end of all their comments. I think it will stop now. I sure hope it will stop because I hate to be spammed by them.
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@purplealabaster (22094)
• United States
24 Oct 15
I am often "called" to a discussion with the person using the "@" symbol in front of my user name. I do not think that this is spamming, especially if the comment is directed towards me. I use it myself in a similar manner.
From what I am reading here, though, this is not the kind of way it was being used. I have questioned a few times people using this method to call a group of people, but I did not see it as a problem, especially since in most cases the person was not calling the people to their own discussion. However, maybe those instances would be better done with the "suggest" feature as that is the intended use of it.
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@purplealabaster (22094)
• United States
24 Oct 15
@poehere Yes, I would have to agree with you there.
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
23 Oct 15
And...the idea of the suggest button it to suggest other posts to your friends. I see people suggesting discussions that are basically telling why they hate the suggest option being gone.
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@poehere (15126)
• French Polynesia
24 Oct 15
@AbbyGreenhill Let us hope so because if they keep doing this I will stop following them and the ones I do follow I like reading their posts. But even if I don't follow them anyone can add an @name to their post and you'll still get the notification. So the only way is to block and I don't think this will work either. I don't feel like reporting them I just want them to read this and stop dong it.
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@poehere (15126)
• French Polynesia
23 Oct 15
It's happened to me a lot. I have a lot of people now adding @name on the end of post to send me a notification. I personally don't agree with this. I just got a few more today. On these I refused to answer or even read the post. Normally I would of read it otherwise. But because of this I didn\t read it or even comment on it.
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@poehere (15126)
• French Polynesia
23 Oct 15
I have been receiving a lot of these notification recently. Just thought I would mention it here.
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
23 Oct 15
@poehere Have you reported this?
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@poehere (15126)
• French Polynesia
23 Oct 15
@AbbyGreenhill No not yet. I am hoping this post will stop it and people will take note that this isn't the way to go.
@NeldaHoxie (1381)
• United States
24 Oct 15
The answer is to simply report it to the owners of the site and they will be the final arbiters. From my perspective it is spamming. I might check out a person's post once, but not again. I wish it was against the site's policies because it's a waste of my time.
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@poehere (15126)
• French Polynesia
24 Oct 15
Yes I agree it's spamming. That is the point of this post to politely ask them to stop. I don't like it and I am starting to see more and more of it since the site took away suggestions and they can no longer suggest their own posts. I want to try the nice way first to let them know this isn't the right way to let a person know they have a new discussion on the board. I look often and can find discussion I enjoy reading and answering on. Just like you and all the others on the site. I hope they get the hint that nobody here will accept this and stop now before it gets out of control.
@KristenH (33351)
• Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
24 Oct 15
Ann, that's so wrong. They should only add your name, just to reply to your post or comment. I agree with always smiling. Report it to Ask Alex and see what Admin has to say. No Mylotter should spam anyone by adding their name, just to get paid. That should be frowned upon.
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@poehere (15126)
• French Polynesia
24 Oct 15
It is fine if they say a comment or mention me in their comment in reference to a post I have written. But consider I did not comment or even read this and my name was added to the end it was spamming me to go to their discussion and comment on this one.
@softbabe44 (5816)
• Vancouver, Washington
23 Oct 15
I have seen this a few times.
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@poehere (15126)
• French Polynesia
23 Oct 15
To me it is spamming me to read their work. When this happens I won't read it or comment on it. If they had sent me a message I would of been happy to read it and comment on it. Not like this.
@jrlcentral (2601)
• Roxas, Philippines
24 Oct 15
The way I see it, Interacting with people who are not yet following you is a better way to get you account exposed to other members. I do check the new discussions created by the members I follow from time to time
@just4him (305561)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
24 Oct 15
I've seen it a couple times, but didn't think anything about it. It does give a person something to think about.
