A CHEATER AMONGST US!!!! If you read nothing else read this!!!!!

Grand Junction, Colorado
March 20, 2007 12:38am CST
Okay friends this really irks me. A member on my friends list started a discussion this morning naming a few topics that had been stolen over to another forum and I didn't recognize any and just skipped over it. Since I didn't respond to it and I deleted from my email I don't remember which friend that it was, so sorry for this discussion. Well I saw another discussion that had been started and went through the steps of requesting them as a friend they sent me a list and I checked out just ONE profile and this member here at MYLOT has started almost 12 pages of discussions and most have been started by members here on my friends list. As recent as today. So here goes a very long list of discussions that have actually been started by mylot members that I have been personally notified of these discussions started. The sad part is this person only copy/pasted the title and the 2 lines that appear under the title and so most just stop mid sentence. So if you want the link to the member both here and at the other site pm me and I will be happy to give it to you. Let me know what you think should be done? Here goes: 1) Who has the last say? 2) Ever been mad at SOMEONE and then they DIED? 3) Preview problems of discussions! 4) Angelina adopts again! What do you think of this? 5) if you'd have another name? what would it be? 6) Where do people on social assistance get money for smoking and drinking? 7) Who has the power in your house? 8) I am going to go for it 9) Do certain smells Remind you of Places or events in your Life? 10) Why do my kids hate me? 11) How hard would it be....... 12) Does anyone else enjoy Desperate Housewives? 13) OK Women it is your turn.... 14) What if you can be invisible? 15) According to studies TALL people are smarter 16) Can you give me advise on my new blog? 17) Dream Jobs.... 18) What are you scared of? 19) Are you a big kid???? 20) Do you brush your teeth everyday? 21) Do you respond to the discussions your friends start?? 22) I'll be fired if I get caught using the internet 23) Would you put your business card out at a garage sale? 24) Could you ever go on the wife swap TV show? 25) Do you believe in Ghosts? 26) Why do bad things happen to good people? 27) This is Nathaniel I must show him to you! 28) Step Children 29) What number of hours you usually sleep? 30) Do you think that parents of overweight children are to Blame? 31) Do you lie about your age? 32) Are your pets spoiled? 33) Do unborn 34) Would you like to make money from your homemade crafts 35) HELP!! PLEASE READ have been married 2 years haven't talked for 5 years 36) Real Dollars versus Fast Cents 37) Have you ever called 911 38) How many have the "notify" on for me? 39) Am I wrong not to celebrate mother's day. 40) I called 911 on my mother a funny story This is a small amount of the discussions that this person has copied to this other site. Please let me know if you have any ideas as to what can be done with this member? I don't believe that the hard work that goes into our discussions should be copied as ones own!!! Do you recognize any of these as your discussions? How does it make you feel?
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39 responses
• Canada
20 Mar 07
I don't recognize any of these as mine but don't believe that is right that they are using someone else's conversations as there own . Were the conversations stolen from here and used on another site ( sorry didn't understand what you said ) or were they stolen from another site and used on here ? Which ever site they are posting them on you should notify whoever it is that runs the site to let them know that they are copied discussions from another site and that they are not doing any of the work and are only copying and pasting as this is not fair to all of us that take the time to do it the right way and this is also what causes sites to go down when others start trying to cheat by finding a better or faster way to do things .
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• Grand Junction, Colorado
20 Mar 07
The discussions were actually stolen here ay MYLTOT and posted to another site. The forum has been notified. I know that many members belong to this other forum and since they are their discussions thought that I would post them here, since many are actually on my friends list and they can report also. I'm glad to hear that none are yours.
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• United States
20 Mar 07
OMG...I recognize these as some of my friends dicussions and quite a few I responded to. Unfortunately I am really new at myLot but I know I do spend time answering dicussions that I am interested in and I would be so upset if someone was copying my words to another site. Seems to me you should be able to report them to myLot??? Or maybe the other site? Whatever you decided to do, please keep us updated on this person. So sad people have to resort to things like this...
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• Grand Junction, Colorado
20 Mar 07
Many of these discussions have been started by my friends also. It has been reported to the other site. Hopefully the members who recognize their discussions can also report this member and have them banned from the other site. I hate cheaters!!!!
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• United States
20 Mar 07
Cheaters make it bad for everyone else. Thank you very much for reporting this person. Hopefully it will soon be remedied and stopped. Its awful that people have to do this. Kudos to you for catching AND reporting it.
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@jewel76 (2305)
• Canada
20 Mar 07
That's a whole lot of discussions this person copied off of us. I think of them is mine "Do you believe in ghosts" as i had started this discussion when i first joined Mylot. I think this person lacks imagination, and is only in it for the money, because obviously, copying someone else's posts, means you don't have anything to ask, and you don't care what ppl answer to the posts you put up, cuz they're not even your questions. I think they should ban this person from My Lot, at least, so he/she won't be able to copy our posts anymore, and maybe advise the admin on the other forum where this person posts, that all his/her posts are copied off another site. Keep us posted and thx for the news!
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@not4me (1711)
• United States
20 Mar 07
None of these are mine but I have seen a couple of these floating around in the past. It's hard to tell because there are only so many topics that we can bring up without getting repetitive as a community. The best you can do is report this user and explain what he has done.
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@kelly60 (4547)
• United States
20 Mar 07
There's one in every crowd, often more than one. In this case the cheater didn't probably didn't expect to get caught, or at least not so soon because they posted them to a different forum. I just had an incident where a member actually copied part of my discussion and used it as his response. I checked his response and reported to myLot that many of his responses where the same copied from the discussions. I found two cases of this on the same day, and reported both of them.
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@kelly60 (4547)
• United States
20 Mar 07
By the way, I don't recognise any of these discussions as my own, but I do recognise several of them as ones I have read. I'm glad that they have been reported on the other forum and can only hope that the other forum deals with them.
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@LittleMel (8742)
• Canada
21 Mar 07
I saw some of these discussions but I didn't realize they are duplicates. I used to join another forum and whatever discussion I made here I would take it there vice versa. I thought they are mine anyway and a lot of mylotters there can simply check my discussions here to see if my discussions there are also mine on mylot or not. I use the same ID so there shouldn't be a problem. There is no feature on mylot or this other forum to detect similar discussions, Yahoo Answer does. I hope you reported this person already.
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• Grand Junction, Colorado
21 Mar 07
This person has been reported at both sites. This person also uses the same user name at both sites. These discussions aren't his/hers I know for sure as this person isn't on my friends list and the list that I posted all came in my email notifications. Also the fact that the cheater only took the title and first 2 lines of the discussion so all most all of them stop mid sentence on the other forum.
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@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
21 Mar 07
I think the one says do you have my notifier on as one of mine. I dont know for sure what can be done to this person unless you turn them in to my lot and that would take along time
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@lauriefnp (5111)
• United States
20 Mar 07
I hope that you have reported this person to both sites and have deleted them from your friends list! None of these are my discussions, but I know that I have responded to several of these. Cheaters get me so angry. Why is it that they feel that the rules don't apply to them? What gives them the right to pirate someone else's hard work? I can't believe that some people need a few cents so bad that they have to resort to this.
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• Grand Junction, Colorado
20 Mar 07
I think that part of the problem for some of the countries is that the all mighty dollar translates in to much more money for them when converted to their currency. That of course is just my 2 cents worth. :)
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@cipher2004 (1183)
• United States
20 Mar 07
None of these are mine but I have posted comments in some of them.This person should be deleted from Mylot and also the site he or she is posting Mylot discussions at.I hate cheaters.I bet it kinda feels like an invasion of privacy in a way to those who's post are being used without them knowing.
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@hoghoney (3747)
• United States
21 Mar 07
Maybe you should talk to MYLOT about it and see what they say. It is sad that some people cant follow the rules. I think that they are like this because they think that will get them more money. I wonder if some would be like that if there was no money involed and places like this were just for making friends and learning new things and stuff about other people and places. money will make some do dumb things.
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@applsofgld (2506)
• United States
21 Mar 07
If you feel that this person is cheating, I think you owe it to the mylot staff to report this to them. I will also keep my eyes open for this type of behavior. I have a friend, or had one, I deleted him this evening, but all he wants to do is start discussions or send private messages about promoting his own personal web business. I don't know if that is against guidelines, but I wrote him and told him I was not interested in that type of discussion. So you do what you feel led to do about this.
@winky73 (1404)
• United States
20 Mar 07
None of those are mine.....but I do recognize a few of them.It's really sad that some people would try to pass something of as their own....even so someone els had to do the work.I guess the best thing any of us can do if we find something like that....send the link to the administration of either site and report it. These people only get away with it as long as nobody takes notice....so I guess it's up to us to put a stop to it.What would be even better.....take away the copy and paste option....I'm sure that would eliminate a lot of that. I find it to be sad and irritating that some people will do things like that.I guess they can be really proud of their achivements....upsetting others that is.
• Canada
20 Mar 07
I don't actually recognize any of those as mine, but seriously, with this number of posts that he's copied, he needs to be reported both here and over at the other forum! This is blatantly stealing and he needs to be removed. If any of those posts had been mine I would have been extremely upset. See this is the problem with this kind of forum these days. People join two or three of them and then steal posts from other forums and people and repost them as their own. It's ridiculous and stupid.
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@Robyn28 (384)
• Canada
20 Mar 07
Hi Beaniefanatic This floors me that people steal discussions and bring them to another site I hope you find who it is the forum was talking about this last night. I'll keep my eyes open ,but it's hard to know who it is especially when they go over to other sites with your discussions. Talk soon
• Grand Junction, Colorado
20 Mar 07
Actually I know exactly who it is on this site also they weren't even creative enough to have a different user name.
• United States
20 Mar 07
Because I see at least one that is mine I would like to know who this is.
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• Grand Junction, Colorado
20 Mar 07
I have just pm'd you both links for this member. :)
@blueskies (1186)
• United States
20 Mar 07
Beanie, could you please let me know the name and the forum you are talking about? I'd like to keep an eye out for this in the future.
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• Grand Junction, Colorado
20 Mar 07
blueskies, let me know if you didn't receive the information that I sent to you I have been having major technical issues on this end and have sent the information twice, but it's not registering that I sent you anything. :)
@greengal (4286)
• United States
20 Mar 07
Oh no! Two of my discussions are there. Is there any way you can spot the user here beanie, we have to report them! This sure is cheating and not fair that our discussions are being copied and used as their own...waahhhhhhhhhhhhh...I'm getting really really mad now...beanie do something, find this user here on mylot!!
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• Grand Junction, Colorado
20 Mar 07
greengal, I have found the user here at mylot and will send you the links so that you can report this user also to both sites. Not sure if your a member at the other site. I don't post their as I enjoy the way mylot is set up. I'm sorry that your discussions were stolen. If it helps this member was to lazy to copy the whole discussion they just stole the titles and the first 2 lines of the discussions so they all stop mid sentence. Most of them have no responses. The ones that have responses are the short ones that are mylot questions. beanie aka Sandy
• United States
20 Mar 07
I recognize many of them as being ones I have responded to. I dont know if I responded to the original or the cheater. I DO KNOW that most of them have been answered fro "My Friends" notifiers, as you are on my friends list and can PM me please let me know who the cheater(s) are. THANK YOU! If they are deleted then I shall lose a lot of points. This is so unfair that we will be penalized because of someone else being a cheat.
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@dana234 (2114)
• Spain
21 Mar 07
Please send me the same info too. I´ve also answered into most of these discussions. I´m on your friends list, please pm me. Thanks ever so much.
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• Grand Junction, Colorado
20 Mar 07
I have sent you the requested information. If you would like to report them you may do so, but they have been reported at both sites. Hopefully in a short time they will be out, although they can always come back under a different user name and then it starts all over again.
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• United States
20 Mar 07
I do not recognize any of them as being one of my posts but if you would please pm me and let me know who it is and the other forum. For I belong to alot of forums and would like to watch out for this person and also report them. Thank you very much for your time in advance if you would do this for me.
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• Grand Junction, Colorado
20 Mar 07
I have requested you as a friend as I'm unable to send the information until you approve me. As soon as you do if you could pop in and let me know I will forward the information. :)
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@Bee1955 (3882)
• United States
21 Mar 07
I've seen one of mine, but as long as they didnt recopy them on Mylot again (as I've noticed a few of mine have been), then there's nothing that can be done. Its on another site. However, some people copy their own topics and put them on 2-3 sites. Their names many times are different on each forum so its hard to say who is stealing (not cheating) someone's work or not.
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• Grand Junction, Colorado
21 Mar 07
This person uses the same name at both sites. Since the member here isn't a friend and all of these discussions came to my in box they are copied from to many members. Also the only thing that this person copied were the title and first to lines, then nothing they just stop in mid sentence. But you don't have to have responses to your discussions at the other site and it pays .05 per thread started. However big rule there is NO COPY/PASTING of discussions from other forums. So this member will either loose all earnings or even be deleted. I don't really post over there so not sure of how they deal.
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20 Mar 07
I think this is awful. I have only been a member a few days but I recognise some of them threads. I think I have either read or posted to them. I thought there was a MLPD to sort things like this? And if there is evidence surely mylot should kick this person off the site. I am presuming the other site is a paid discussion forum... I think that this is absolutely disgusting.
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• Grand Junction, Colorado
20 Mar 07
The MLPD is on strike. This member has been reported and not sure if they can access their account or not. The discussions on this side could also be stolen from other paid sites, since I spend most of my time here and rarely go to other sites it would take quite some time to check around to see if they have been stolen also. This member doesn't appear to post much here to begin with. They have definately posted more to this other forum, like 12 pages of discussions. Some repeated many with no responses as they were to lazy to copy the whole discussion and most stop mid sentence. Now that the MLPD has gone on strike it's even more important that all members here take the time to report cheaters as they see them. :)
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