Abuse: Using News or Reviews to Post in myLot!

I'm all for quoting in your discussion, but this was out and out blatant copy and paste from some review/news articles. It was clearly not the user's discussion and they never ask anything at the end. and even if they do write "something" it's almost always at the end of a HUGE post followed by a "What do you think?" Which is wrong.

i don t agree ...u are not specialist in certain things ..so how can u coment upon certain topics if u don t go and check an aproved information!!!plus i don t like to talk in vain!!!!

It doesn't take a specialist to see that someone has blatanly copied a news article or a movie review. I'm not talking in vain at all. I'm discussing how disturbing and annoying this problem is. myLot will eventually get these people, but if we can help, all the better. I don't let it ruin my time here, but it's still bothersome.

I didn't see someone's post was really deleted by mylot. Did you see that? So, I'm not sure if my will truely delete some meaningless discussions or just deduct their earnings. Anyone who wanna reap without sowing is bond to get punishment. Anyway, those guys, who just copy and paste things, are limited to have ratings beyond 500 by new rules. It seems working so far.

Not one bit. I did a search for topics on this before I wrote it and I didn't come up with anything. The problem there is the search engine isn't very efficient at all. Plus I am not cutting and pasting, which is what this discussion is about. I understand what you are talking about, but you definately don't understand what I am talking about (again, no offence to you either as I respect your comment and even gave you a plus!). My discussion doesn't have anything to do with "similar previous descriptions" at all - it's about cut and paste discussions that aren't really discussions but news reviews or articles... many of which don't even ask a question. To summarize: I am neither the pot nor the kettle, you are not abusive :), you didn't understand my discussion topic, people do post for money but they need to observe and abide by the rules, and while this may have been discussed before it is my own words and feelings on the topic and I followed the rules and did a search before I generated the discussion :) I can't be held responsible for an inefficient search engine :)

If you read the new guidelines carefully though it's only pictures that are limited to users with a rating of 500 or more. Which still doesn't help much with this issue.

i agree with those that give meral information from valid sources!!!!!

There's absolutely nothing wrong with giving your view of news articles or movie reviews, but you can obviously tell a cut and paste from a personal opinion.

Actually you can police it, by reporting it to myLot :) But I agree with you, often the content of the discussion is just a cut/paste of the topic title too... and there's the people that copy other users posts and then the people who do what we're talking about in this discussion.

Thanks! It's the same in the real world... shoplifters cause the price of goods to go up, various bad things people due cause gas prices to rise (as well as problems beyond our control, but that's another topic!).

Exactly. I did as well... and they post a few above this one as well. All I can say is... "ugh!"

No they didn't, it's only photos that have been restricted to people with 500 or less points. As far as I read it anyway, and I read it pretty thoroughly... though i'll have another go at it.

I can appreciate your curiousity, but a response like this is actually against the rules. Something like this would be fine in a message to me or any other myLot user. That being said, if you'd read the posts you'd know exactly how this works as it's been said many times! ;)