What would you like to know about myLot?

Thank you for allowing us to have an inside look into Mylot.

My Question: In recent years, there have been many websites that seem to be the offsprings of the giant myspace.com (Yuwie.com and mylot.com seem to be the biggest) . While each website offers something a little different, My question is, how is MyLot really that much different then any of these other social networks that keep popping up all over the net, and besides a little payment incentive, how will MyLot keep more visitors comming back daily to this social network?

Hi Crash,
First of all let me congratulate mylot because they are keeping their promise about intoducing new fetures like Mylot Digest and now this one from you is making mylot members interesting to be here.
My first question to you:
You have mentioned that you will respond to any discussion preferably with in 48 hours.What I want to know is whether your reply for the discussions we put in mylot under any category of interests and incase we want to put a question directly to you where should we post the discussion?

Hello Crash. My question for you is if you start a discussion and you get a lot of responses back, will you make more money on that? If not I think that might be a good incentive to have good discussions. Thank You for your time.

Hi Crash. Nice to meet you. Awesome avatar btw. My question is this: when a member's account is suspended, or if things go far enough to ban said member, why isn't some kind of notification sent to explain the reason for the action to the member? That has never happened to me thankfully, but I've seen it happen to many people, and their first and foremost complaint is that they don't know why or what for. I hope you can enlighten me on this one. Thanks in advance.....Carryl

I have seen discussions deleted that I haven't seen anything wrong with, yet I have seen many, many more discussions that are allowed to stay despite the fact that they are clear violations of the guidelines. I have also seen pages and pages of these discussions that remain on the site, and the members who I assume are banned because they haven't been here for months, remain at the top of the member rating lists because of their many pages of plagiarized discussions. I would like to know why these discussions are not removed, and why these members who were banned for abusing the system don't lose their top member ratings?

Greetings Crash! I first found myLot when I was looking for the answer to a computer question and luckily stumbled in and had some members who were able to assist me with this. Since then I have seen all the changes and improvements and have thoroughly enjoyed myself while at the same time been frustrated when looking for particular answers.

The search function works well and tags are an important part of it but has myLot considered using a keyword search from within topics and providing an index? I know we used to have highlighted words whenever we wrote topics, back in 2006 but I think that was more for revenue generation than indexing. Yes I am a long time member who requested cancel of my previous account so I could start fresh. Keep up the good work, we enjoy this site tremendously!

Hi Crash. First let me say I love your avatar. I am a collector and lover of all things swine related.

My question about myLot relates to the usage of certain words and parts of discussions that get deleted because they are considered too mature or distasteful. In my humble opinion, the system is indiscriminately eliminating perfectly tasteful and acceptable discussion based solely on the appearance of words that sometimes, but not always, are considered by some to be offensive.

My solution is, if you don't like the content of medical or political discussions or any other discussions for that matter, simply stay away from them. Apparently myLot doesn't think it's users are capable of making that choice, and THAT offends my sensibilities as a writer who abhors censorship.

For a while, I don't know if it's still true of not, we couldn't use the nick name for Richard that rhymes with nick and begins with D. Even if it was legitimately someone's name, the discussion would get deleted. There ought to be a way for that to be differentiated. Recently I had a part of my discussion on mammary gland cancer deleted because someone mentioned cancer in male parts. Come on, doesn't anyone read this stuff or is it just a bot that goes through and deletes discussions and sections solely based on the appearance of certain words.

I do notice that some discussions get tagged with "mature content". I think that is a good way to make a distinction.

It is unfortunate that there are families out there who let their youngsters indiscriminately surf the web and then the parents blame the media for containing mature matter. It has always been my policy to discuss even when my children were much younger, rather than the delete or censor. I think censorship is a cowardly way out of things. If youngsters encounter "mature" or "questionable" material, whether it be on books, online, movies, radio, or any other media. That of course is just my opinion, but I have two teenage boys who are mature and make good choices in life, so I must be doing something right. I never outrightly forbade them to read, listen to, or view anything, online or on television or in books. They are just naturally turned off by skin magazines and flicks and even off color jokes, and I do take some of the credit for them learning those kinds of choices.

MyLot should give credit to people for being able to select what is and is not in their interests for reading and writing. Of course outright vulgar language needs to be limited, but as I stated before, people who are reading on this website appear to be intelligent enough, on the average, to distinguish between a Richard's nick name and a slang name for a body part, as well as distinguishing between distasteful language about human parts and functions and intelligent discussions about medical or biological issues. Maybe myLot needs to have some human "censors" and proofreaders to make the site more fair to everyone.

I have to say, after all my raving, that I do think myLot is an awesome and unique site. Thanks for the opportunity to vent and ask questions.

Okay... I have read every question that were up when I clicked onto this discussion, and I don't see my question asked.

It is:

Will you EVER provide us with a method of spell check? I can't spell my way out of a dry paper bag, and a total loser when it would come to a spelling bee, please help those of us who are spelling challenged!

Hi Crash! This is an awesome idea.
I would love to know how long will the system keep our discussions. I mean, if I stay here for ten years, will it keep all my discussions from day one or will they slowly be removed from my list of discussions I have started? Additionally, why can't I delete my own discussions that have no responses?

Okay are you ready for an earful? LOL
First of all I've been here nearly a whole year and love being here. I've met some terrific people here, have friends and feel a tight bond with many members as I'm sure many others do.

Through discussions many of us get to know each other very well...we share parts of our lives with each other, whether to share our joys, triumphs, fears, to ask for fellow MyLotters prayer help. As it should be in a community of friends like this. When we do share pieces of our lives we find out that whatever we may be going through in life, that we're not alone.

So many times people might think that they are going through a problem or crises in their lives and think they are alone with this. When a MyLotter opens their heart about some such episode they discover that they aren't alone and that is the wonderful blessing about such a community like MyLot where we can interact with one another and give each other that boost and words of comfort one might need.

Here at Mylot we can also share news items we think might interest others, helpful information, and get viewpoints on even the most controversial subjects, that often can "heat" up

Okay, I'm very well aware of the guidelines here, and what one can or can't start as a discussion. It's disheartening however that many times just because one(or more) MyLotter doesn't agree with what is being said in a discussion, whether it'd be the topic discussion itself, by the poster, or by some comment response left by another MyLotter.

That's when "strange" things happen here and sometimes unfairly. I realize the subject of both banning and deletions of discussions have already been touched on here. My question is, is this. I can't understand the principles of when a MyLotter is banned from here. There are many MyLotters who may well deserve to be banned for making continuous obnoxious, flaming, insulting remarks and attacks against another MyLotter...but many times this is just one (or two) MyLotters who have a personal vendetta type thing going an not necessarily a reflection of the person who may be banned him or herself.

So yes, I would like the principles perhaps of why a person is banned especially if they are innocent and just being personally under attack. From what I understand, as this did happen to a friend of mine about a month ago--though she was latter re-instated, she,the person who was banned had no opportunity to tell "her" side of the story of what happened...that she was being maliciously attacked by a vindictive MyLotter who accused her with all sorts of lies, yet the word of the person who filed complaints against her were listened to and not questioned. Is this fair?

Is there a better way the Administration and/or Moderators can investigate into the real and true story of what is going on between members, rather than just take one person's word, the word of the person reporting the other?

Also, sort of on the same principle of a banning of a person are the deletions of discussions as this really is almost the same issue as both banning a member and deletion of discussions are "deletions"...one a member, the other discussions. How does MyLot determine the deletion of discussions? I've seen so many discussions that in my opinion should be deleted and have even recently reported one that I thought was in poor taste and an insult to animal lovers, yet it remains here, while seeing good quality discussions deleted even though they followed the guidelines.

Sorry this is long-winded...just curious about the principles of MyLot's policies of banning of MyLotters and deletions of discussions especially when they are unjustified in both cases.