Deleted accounts

Romania
February 23, 2009 9:03am CST
Today I was browsing through my list of friends and I noticed that some of them are no longer members of myLot. Their accounts have been deleted and their profile cannot be viewed. I wonder how this happened, because I don't remember them being abusive or rude. They were also active posters; they had more than 500 answers and discussions...
4 responses
@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
23 Feb 09
If you find a user's profile is blank and no longer availale either they were banned or they themselves cancelled their account. If they were banned there is usually a reason and if the banning was unjustified they will be un-banned as has happened with several users recently (and they inform us). Sometimes users cancel their own accounts either to start again or because other reasons make them move on. Not always are all the discussions deleted. However if they are deleted and we responded then yes we lose our earnings too.
@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
23 Feb 09
It is stated at #1 in the TermsOfUse http://www.mylot.com/o/terms.aspx with a link to do so: http://www.mylot.com/nr/cancel.aspx
• Romania
23 Feb 09
I didn't know you are able to cancel your own account.
@maximax8 (31053)
• United Kingdom
23 Feb 09
I was answering a discussion the other day and then thought the member of My Lot that began the discussion used to be among my friends so I made a friend request. That My Lot member sent me message saying that many of his friends had been deleted. In other words they were banned from My Lot. I have no idea why. I looked at his list of friends and it is empty. The ones that have been deleted that I know of were active, had many posts and were reasonably polite. I am glad not to be that member's friend because I love being on My Lot. My Lot is wonderful.
• Romania
23 Feb 09
I wonder if they deleted their discussions. This would mean they deleted my answers too.
@maximax8 (31053)
• United Kingdom
23 Feb 09
I wonder about that too. I remember looking at a profile of a member of My Lot and saw one of their friends only had 4 posts. I thought that was strange so I looked a that members profile. That member had some writing explaining that something made his account send out thousands of friend requests. He had hundreds of posts then it went down to four. How weird.
@jonesy123 (3948)
• United States
23 Feb 09
If they themselves didn't post anything offensive, it might still have been reported as such. That's one thing. Trolls can really get you here. On the other hand they may have posted something illegal (in mylot terms), even though it may not appear to you to be an offense. Sometimes accounts expire. They may have 500 posts but may not have logged in for quite some time. First they take your earnings due to inactivity, then your account. They also may have decided to request deletion. That happens, too. What I noticed on my friends list... I encountered two last week where the profile came up as a blank page. Everybody elses worked just fine. I found that odd because for deleted members it will indicate that they were deleted...
@mathss1 (1181)
• United States
23 Feb 09
My id got deleted or was set to inactive because of some trolls or because of my discussions I think i should just leave this site as it is of no use if they delete accounts without warning So people set their own account to inactive or authorities do so Have a gr8 time Njoy