For the love of god do we have to have the same questions over and over?  

I answer the same discussion over again, only because when I can't find any discussion to answer, some of these people posting these discussions, are new comers here to Mylot, and they don't know these discussions, have been asked before, just don't answer the discussion, I am sure the people that posted it, don't know you didn't answer it any way.

Well perhaps this is because you guys are on MyLot waaay to much? I mean 13500+ posts is a bit over the top, no? Get outside until there are discussions you like, I don't want to offend you in any way, but there is an easy solution for it, no?

I have to agree with you on this one. Its just getting annoying and frustrating all together. When I first joined I came across a few posts that were repeated but not a lot. Recently almost half the posts are repeated or break the guidelines. Also, some just arnt intresting or one word long. I ignore them and lately its just been really irritating me seeing the same posts even one after another your telling me you cant see it before posting it.

*laughs* Yes, we have to.

The sad part is when you look at the discussions listed in an interest, and see the exact same question asked three times on the same page. Obviously, some people are just copying a question from someone else just so that they can start a new discussion.

Now, occasionally there are honest mistakes. On a couple of occasions, I have used the search function, found nothing, wrote my post, and then screamed at the system when it finally shows me an almost exact duplicate from two years ago that actually answered the question that I was searching for in the first place.

I can live with the honest mistakes. I can live with two-year old results cropping up only after I post my own discussion. But the obvious copy and paste artists do drive me crazy.

I know what you mean - some days there just isn't anything worthwhile to respond to. Unfortunately the search engine isn't as good as it should be, mainly because most people don't understand what the tags are for! I agree that more posts should be deleted, but also that posts without appropriate tags should be deleted too!

I know you were talking about me and my post of my mom and such, but if you don't want to answer it, just ignore it goodness!
I don't mind responding to the same question over and over, but you know that's just me.

i've committed that mistake when i was still very new to mylot. then someone told me about the search function. sometimes there are old discussions that are interesting and could probably be resurrected? but you're right there have been a number of times when i see the same topics for discussion and these were from people who have been in mylot for a while (based on the number of their posts). i just skip these.

It's kind of annoying, but I usually ignore the duplicate discussions and don't get too angry about it. Sometimes I respond if the discussion has a different approach than the previous discussion I answered about the same subject. Otherwise just ignore it - It doesn't solve anything to get angry about it.

I'd like Mylot to simplify the interests too. there are far too many duplicates, i am on two lists with exactly the same title and they often both come up as having a new question, but it's almost the same flipping thing!!! I think people must only be on one list and not the other.

would it be so hard to program into mylot that incomplete questions (those with no tags), or questions containing links that ended in something more than .com / .org / .net etc get deleted automatically?


I know i'm a newbie and so i don't really have the right to grumble.
However,
I do always use the search engine before posting, (i would post a fresh question if the orignal one is very old and therefore the first responses may be out of date)
and
I always try and add a tag to my responses to questions if not two or three using rephrasing words for those searching (search, searching, looking etc)

Even after being away for 12 months and coming back just recently, I have noticed the same old posts around ,so nothing much has changed since I have been gone.I love a good post that you can answer, or a post that you can relate to. bring on some good posts.