the false advertisment
By klaudine
@klaudine (3650)
Indonesia
September 24, 2008 12:33am CST
Now I want you to do a little something. Go to the google page or any search engine you might use, then type "paid to chat" there, what would you see? Did you see what I saw? If you saw what I saw, then you would get what I mean. It is clearly stated there in the 3rd party advertisement that myLot is a place that would pay you for chatting. This is so wrong.
People tried to get some referral by attracting them with some interesting words, and get paid for chatting is really promising especially those who has the payment proof. People came as their referral and with the acknowledgment that this is a place to chat, they started to make one line posts everywhere.
Again, I have never thought that this is a place to chat. Yes you socialize here, you talk with people, but you are discussing something, not chat. Chat is for the one line message every post and discussions is something that need some lines and some thoughts.
I believe that it wasn't be done in purpose, the false advertisement, they thought about getting some referral without thinking about the next step to make them understand that only some kind of posts counted in the earning. They forgot to give them the knowledge about the guidelines, and that was why there are more and more people came with the different knowledge about this place.
what do you think about this phenomenon?
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2 responses
@Kmarie923 (875)
• United States
24 Sep 08
I hate it when people go overboard and spam everything just to get referrals. Yes, everybody would like referrals but people don't want to sign up under a spammer. I do believe that some people treat mylot as a "chat" area, especially the people who begin the discussions. Maybe they just didn't read the rules of mylot and don't completely understand its purpose.
@klaudine (3650)
• Indonesia
24 Sep 08
That is right. Making this place as the chat area would really annoying especially when they only made one line post that has no meaning and no reason to answer to those discussions. Spamming is really annoying, I've got some in my inbox and since there is no 'report' feature there in PM, all i can do is delete the message and delete the person from my list
@richiem (3644)
• Philippines
24 Sep 08
That is one of the reasons why out of 140000+ members, below 50% are active. It is because of having a high expectation on myLot. They thought that with every post they make, they will earn. But that is not really the case.
Everyone should educate their referrals about this.
Have a nice day!


