Did you really success in Mylot Vigilante Mission?

@cheongyc (5072)
Malaysia
December 24, 2006 11:33pm CST
I think most of the experienced mylot user will usually encounter discussion hijacker, spammer or whatever it is, who copy other's people content and paste as their own, and also those who writting meaningless response. Did you guys disgusted by them and report as abuse? I had done a few times, but seems like action had not been taken and that hijacker is still very much alive in Mylot! If you had made an abuse report, did you ever verify what happend to the culprit? I did, but seems like my effort is fruitless. How about your experience, kindly share it so that we could know if anyone is successful out there.
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26 responses
@amitavroy (4819)
• India
25 Dec 06
hey what is this vigilante mission from mylot. i was not here for last 3 days and also i dnt knw why is this mission in mylot. can u guys pls tell me what is this
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@cheongyc (5072)
• Malaysia
26 Dec 06
Thanks for your help on the explanation. For those new comers, they will need some time to digest what you said :) Besides, i am wondering if hijacking other people's avatar is also a violation?
@cheongyc (5072)
• Malaysia
27 Dec 06
Ya, you are right. I am asking this bcoz i had seen some familiar avatar but different user name. (except those basic/common avatar). Mayb i mistaken about it, forget it :)
@clark16 (375)
• Philippines
25 Dec 06
Our mission is actually to earn money from this site because mylots mission is to gain popularity that's why we have to promote mylot and recruit other interested people out there and being paid for it. Next mission, is to report violations... it's very unfair for true members who uses their minds to answer and ask quality questions. while spammers just put copied answers or questions to increase rating... and upon reporting it, mylot will take an action a couple of days as I have read from other member.
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@Perry2007 (2229)
• Philippines
25 Dec 06
Your observation has also been the same with the one I just finished responding to, I suggested for him to direct complain to mylot, with you I learned that nothing is happening with reports that you give to mylot. Maybe you need to gather all those with experience of copied data then collectively send the report. mylot might hear concerted effort. Congratulations for doing police work for mylot.
• India
25 Dec 06
Yes today I found one member who is posting the mylote guidelines in his responses again and again in various discussions. This is clearly the copy and pastes the same content to increase the ratings. I have reported it few hours ago now I waiting the result, perhaps it will take one or two days to take effect. If you are interested to learn this spammer please follow the link. http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/495433.aspx
@cheongyc (5072)
• Malaysia
26 Dec 06
It's really great to meet you guys as the vigilant in mylot :) Ya, i think mylot need somebody like us to make it a better place. We really hope that those hijackers/spammers will be kicked out from mylot. They are pirating other people's intellectual property.
@cheongyc (5072)
• Malaysia
27 Dec 06
Wah, now only i found out u guys really did a lot of good job and had been putting a lot of effort in this vigilante mission :) Earlier i did not have such exposure and my own experience showed that it's not that useful. But now i know, every effort we do will worth it :)
@chaptermm (730)
• United States
25 Dec 06
i am not now but i know i will do i t
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@cheongyc (5072)
• Malaysia
26 Dec 06
Hope you will help to mylot a better place in future. Thanks for your response btw.
@lulylove (1560)
• Brazil
30 Dec 06
I think that to copy and glue things that are not of its authorship besides being a great lack of respect it is crime. However, as we do not have as to prove if really it was a copy or a coincidence, the best one to make is to denounce to the Site of the Mylot.
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@cheongyc (5072)
• Malaysia
10 Mar 08
It's right. I will always report abuse action to Mylot admin. This is not about resentful or revenging their act, but I just hope that such irresponsible act could terminated and make Mylot a better place. Thanks for your response!
@Tisifone (639)
• Italy
25 Dec 06
I always respond writing my texts and it's really stupid when someone simply copies and pastes the text from other websites. I saw some abuse but at that time I didn't know how to report it. Now I know it and I'll do so if I notice it again.
@cheongyc (5072)
• Malaysia
26 Dec 06
Great! At least this discussion is cultivating some vigilante culture and got more people help to cleanse mylot from being infested by spammers and hijackers. Hope you can do it better and good luck. Thanks for your response btw. :)
@williamjisir (22819)
• China
10 Mar 08
Hello dear cheongyc. I am sorry to know that you had such an experience one year ago. But I am glad to say that I do not this problem as I do not see an exact discussion like mine. All of mine are out of my own mind and idea. Anyway sometimes it could happen that there are some similar discussions though slightly different. It is ok as some of us would have the same name like william, jack, and tom etc. lol. Thanks.
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@cheongyc (5072)
• Malaysia
10 Mar 08
You are right. So far all the response and discussion are made out of my own idea. But of course I had copied the informative material from external source to share it with Mylot user. But I will never pirate from other Mylot user. It's pretty simple to differentiate pirated discussion and a discussion created by coincidence. Because the master piece created by those Mylot hijackers are having exact same paragraph with the originator. Do you believe them that they are not the hijackers? Besides, the spammers are typing meaningless combination of non vocal characters eg like 10 'a's followed by 13 's's and followed by 5'd's and so on. (aaaaaaaaaasssssssssssssdddd) I believe they were the early user of Mylot who seek for higher earning by typing rubbish and thought they could walk away without being discovered. I am also glad that Mylot is making here a greater place and you had never experienced such disappointing ordeal.
@ossie16d (11821)
• Australia
25 Dec 06
Internet criminals - Spammers
Any person has the right to report to myLot someone who spams, does a "cut and paste" response, steals another member's discussion or response. I think that myLot are taking it seriously because I have noticed that a number of members discussions and responses have disappeared totally and their rating has been reduced a lot. This can only happen when myLot takes action against these people, so if you do see something that you consider to be amiss, then report it to myLot by using the! at the right of the discussion. Sometimes it might take a few days for you to see the result of your report, and more so now that it is the festive season. Take heart and continue to do what you think is right, i.e. report these sort of activities to myLot.
@cheongyc (5072)
• Malaysia
26 Dec 06
I feel more relieved to know that. I mean reporting those violaters and action are really taken by mylot. Coz i found that those violaters reported by me is still alive. I will keep trying and continue to help in vigilante mission :) Thanks for your response btw.
@vipul20044 (5794)
• India
25 Dec 06
Well yes i do feel that sense of disgust when people do things like that But mylot did alert everyone that those with less than 500 posts can possibly do such things dunno but thats the rule
@istanto (8548)
• Indonesia
25 Dec 06
I have reporterd some of cheater in mylot and mylot take action by deleting they discussions or response, don't know about they account. If you found someone cheating or broken guidelines you can report it and give the reason so mylot will take action intermediately. this is also help mylot to keep quality on this website also I believe you will get reward from that.
@cheongyc (5072)
• Malaysia
27 Dec 06
We should report those cheaters. It's very rude for them to copy other's discussion and post as their own. Besides, it's not fair to the others, coz they are making easy money in mylot with piracy. Once they got reported and deleted, they will not only lose their earning, but time and effort used to do the cheating :)
• United States
25 Dec 06
Hijackers?? do ya need the small change that bad..that your making here.Do ya come from that much of a depressed part of the world??
@cheongyc (5072)
• Malaysia
27 Dec 06
It's not depress that coz us to do so. It's to work the justice. I can't sit and watch those people copy other people's work and submit as their own. This is very rude and no different from piracy of intellectual property. Besides, it's really not fair to other sincere members who spent time and effort posting the discussion while they keep copying and making fast and easy money.
@emisle (3822)
• Ireland
25 Dec 06
I do report cheaters to mylot but i don't check to see if they've been removed. It's really irritating when people copy other posts etc, and some of them make the fact that they're cheating so obvious, some don't even try to hide it!
@cheongyc (5072)
• Malaysia
27 Dec 06
I do check, coz i want to know if my report had been useful and effective. If not, then i will improve the way by putting more details and evidence. :)
@onesiobhan (1327)
• Canada
25 Dec 06
I do report things if I stumble across them. If I see something that is an obvious cut-and-paste, or if I see somebody posting endless iterations of the same post. I admit I haven't really followed-up to see if anything happened to the person. And I don't make a point of hunting them down. I just send reports if I happen to see them.
@cheongyc (5072)
• Malaysia
27 Dec 06
Great! It's good to hear that you are one of us. The reason i check to see if the spammer really got punished is want to know if the way i file abuse report is in the correct and efficient way. I know there are people out there had been very successful in cleaning the mylot community from cheaters, so i am now learning on how to achieve that.
@sam4san (61)
• India
25 Dec 06
basically im a new one to mylot.. but stil i can make out that this is absolutely wrong.. i mean take messengers.. the one who start sending the same text for more than specified times, gets ignored automatically... i think the same technique can be adopted here too.. but making it out with AI is real difficult, and one more thing is some one cant keep watchin where all that guy start pasting the text, the only thing that can be done is to ignore that person. Well i think that discussions wil definitely help in this
@cheongyc (5072)
• Malaysia
27 Dec 06
You are good people in mylot and have a right mind set. Ya, it's not easy to detect these spamming with the auto script. That's why mylot really help from all of us here to battle these cheaters. I think it would be best to reward those reporters with the erning being forfeited from the cheaters. Then it would be a hot job to hunt down these violaters :D Does this sound great enough? :)
@supninder (447)
• India
25 Dec 06
i dont think its right to paste someone else discussions. i have also seen many such cases in the last two days,i have reported once as abuse, but sadly no results till now.
@cheongyc (5072)
• Malaysia
27 Dec 06
Neither do I. But i know there are many successful case out there after reading the discussion from HimArticles, anj571 and SKSOUTH. You might want to check it out in: http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/495433.aspx http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/453442.aspx
• India
25 Dec 06
i dint experience anything lik tht till now ...well..im new to mylot
@cheongyc (5072)
• Malaysia
26 Dec 06
Be a good boy. Don't copy other people discusssion and also don't post content irrelevant to the discussion topic. Then you are safe. If you find out there are people doing it, use the '!' next to his response, and report to mylot in details.
• India
25 Dec 06
yeah its good point raised ! till now i didnt faced any such activity , but heard many times from other users here ! so better to take action among them ! i think they are the people who dont know english language and they cant think wht they have to write ! and this way they just copy and paste the contents one point also scratches me sometimes that , even i think people created multiple ids and for increasing amount from that id to get 25% they are just copying and pasting the contents , in this if the user also get banned they will still not be effected and they will get the amont 25 %. multiple pcs in same home with either different or same dyanmic dsl connection
@cheongyc (5072)
• Malaysia
27 Dec 06
You really put up a good point. Although these spammer got deleted, but they still can have 25% of their spam account credited into his upline (also owned by him maybe). But i think, if your downline got deleted, your own earning will be impacted as well. (just my thought only, not sure about too) Thanks for the response btw.
@utsadetti (4589)
• United States
25 Dec 06
What is that about?
@cheongyc (5072)
• Malaysia
26 Dec 06
Let me put in simple word. If you found out that somebody is copying your response and paste it in some other discussion as his own response. Then you should report it to mylot admin using the '!' option. If you had done that before, did you know that the person that being reported by you is really get punished? This is my question, which i put in different way of asking. Hope you got what i mean now.
@faisal86 (471)
• Pakistan
25 Dec 06
wel, i am very new in this business
• India
25 Dec 06
ME too noticed the same things,as i was surprised how people lot of scraps within few time.Its usless if one using such a beutiful service without seriousness.This topic will certainly helpfull for mylot members who are serious.
@cheongyc (5072)
• Malaysia
27 Dec 06
I am totally agree with you. Hope you will make use the abuse report system when you do come across some spammers/hijackers.
• Pakistan
25 Dec 06
well i dont have such kind of experience yet bcoz im new on mylot