Taking away our points!
By LovingIt
@LovingIt (5396)
United States
October 29, 2006 8:37pm CST
If MyLot is going to take away our points, it would be really nice if they could at least send us a message explaining to us why the points were taken away! When I went to bed last night I had 803 points. Today I have 798 points. That means somewhere along the line, they took away 5 of my points!
I would guess maybe some discussions were deleted? It just seems only fair that we be given an explanation when this occurs.
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15 responses
@timmeh0910 (1168)
• United States
30 Oct 06
You get points taken away for starting a new discussion, and you get them back if someone responds to it. Thats all I know.
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@LovingIt (5396)
• United States
30 Oct 06
I've never noticed that. If that's the case it's only started happening since they updated the site. In any case, I didn't start any new discussions yesterday or today between the time I had the points and they disappeare, so that's not what caused me to lose points.
@LovingIt (5396)
• United States
1 Nov 06
If they would just send a message when they remove points explaining WHY they are removing them, it would really help everyone. We would then understand what it is we are doing wrong and know not to continue doing it. As it is, we don't know so we continue making the same mistakes over and over again, obviously.
@LovingIt (5396)
• United States
31 Oct 06
Evidently it is discussions being deleted although I didnt see any being deleted until today. They are being deleted like mad today since the Guidelines came out. I even lost one best response. I'm frankly surprised this one hasn't been deleted -- I guess it still could be. My rating has been going from 870 down to 868 and back to 870 and back down all day long. LOL
@claudia413 (4280)
• United States
30 Oct 06
I haven't noticed any points going away, but I really haven't been paying attention that closely. I will from now on. As I'm typing this, I have 943. I would love to find out why they're taking points away from some people and not others and why some discussions disappear when you're trying to post to them. I think it's time for some explanations. The person that referred me hasn't been given any credit for referrals for 2 days, and I've earned over $2 myself each day...so she should have earned 25% of what I made. C'mon, myLot! You've got some explaining to do.
@megainfobites (630)
• United States
30 Oct 06
I too have begun to notice this strange phenomenon and have since come up with the following theory: If another mylot user doesn't like your discussion topic or disagrees with your response, they can give you a "-" which I think may substract points from your total score. This has been happening to me lately as well.
@LovingIt (5396)
• United States
31 Oct 06
That's what my original thinking was as well. I've gone back and looked, though and I can't find where any have been deleted. I've about come to the conclusions that the only thing it could be would be somebody giving negative ratings, although I can't image why anyone would have done that either.
@stezieb (2182)
• United States
30 Oct 06
Don't blame mylot, I don't know exactly if this is what happened here. The other day I was in a discussion and i pissed someone off and the all gave me a "-" and i seen my rating go down a little bit. again not sure if this is what has happened to you.
check out this post if you have a second i think i am being scammed too.
www.mylot.com/w/discussions/138265.aspx?p=0
