Who is copying whose discussion?

alice I think sometimes some mylotters do not report these things as they are afraid if they make very many reports mylot admins will think badly of them, and I keep saying if this was copied by all means report it to mylot admins Am I not right?

Hatley, you're absolutely right. We don't think badly of members who report. It's the opposite. We encourage it, as stated in the discussion guidelines.

Hi Alice, I brought up this discussion because it can happen to anyone of us here. And before it becomes a serious issue it should be nipped in the bud. This is another recent case http://www.mylot.com/nr/newresponse.aspx?qid=2257710. I am not sure though whether the blogger is a member here but how does she get the latest discussions to be copied to her blog. It must be an inside job. Your presence to this post is appropriate and highly appreciated.

I would chop their fingers off so that they can't use a computer anymore!

Diana your help is very much needed here and believe that you have what it takes to be a mylot unofficial detective. You have done great jobs so far to help defenseless mylotters who are victims of plagiarism.

You always have such creative ideas as to solve problems MysD! I can only agree

Many of us here are genuine creator of discussions in mylot and people steal their discussions to fill their blogs. Leaving the OP crying foul when they become the victims of their own discussions.

What goes around comes around sooner or later.

That might be the many reasons behind all these deleted discussions. This discussion today is an eye opener for the admin to scrutinize before dumping discussions in their bins. It takes a great effort to come up with a topic and many find disappointments when they find their efforts gone to waste because of the sinful acts of others.

I don't know since when it is happening in mylot but I only come to know about it after reading from the discussions here and getting many deleted responses. The roots of the problems are slowly coming out.

Too much of sinful acts sprawling in the net and it is really difficult to put a stop on all this evil works.

This is exactly what happen here. A misunderstanding happened when the original writer had her post deleted because of plagiarizing. The admin should look at it carefully before deleting a discussion.

I got a recent notification that my response was deleted along with the discussion. Looking at the post it wasn't at all 'against the law' here as it was talking about lottery. Now it makes me think whether it was also being copied out which left the poor poster being accused of plagiarizing. I fear many discussions will be deleted if this thief is going to extract many more discussions here for her blog contents. It is a shame that this has to happen to a good site like this where discussions are deleted for no faultS of the OP.

I hope everything is well taken care of and we can continue our fun here.

yes alice, that's what i have in mind too. it couldn't be the blogger but the blogger could also be a mylotter.

We cannot avoid having duplication of discussions in this vast population here but extracting from someone's post to call their own is wrong and should be condemned. The original writer is penalized for no fault of hers and wrongly accused of plagiarizing. This isn't fair.

Read Response #2, Paula. You will see that Admin (in the person of GoAskAlice) are very ready to investigate and to correct wrongful deletions. They do need to be informed, however!

If this is happening here and discussions are wrongly deleted, I am afraid we are going to face more problems in future with this plagiarizing issue.

This is the worse thing that can happen to anybody when their discussions are copied and used in other sites.

Yes, human errors is a common phenomena in this world. Now I know why many of my discussions just land in mylot bins. I may have been a victim myself which I am not well aware of until someone pour out the can of worms.

Now it is not the fault of members here when their hard work were wrongly deleted by admin as they are the victims of plagiarism. I have experienced having my responses deleted when discussions get deleted because of this menace.

It is right that due to some limitation in every system some innocent people are also victimized. It is very sad and only can be apologized. It is the limitation of human that in every step justice can't provide to all. In the law system also some people are punished wrongly. All punished people are not guilty. And in the determination of the right and wrong we the people has some limitation. We need to consider it. It is best if none innocent are punished. But all the human system has some human error. And here also not being wrong some user has to face some wrong judgment. Particularly in this context deletion is may be based on the report. Admin received the report on those and convinced by the report admin delete those. But is considerable that admin has also some limitation to determined what is wrong and what is right. And the fault is occurred in that perplexity of determination. But there must some people with bad intention behind it. And to keep the standard of the site it need to figure out those people.

It is really a difficult situation to find out who the real culprit is. Even when they approach the blog admin, they too are in the dark.

O.K But for deleting on what proof? at least there should be some arrangement for the posting hour

I think admin has been a little reckless here on deleting discussions. They act immediately upon receiving public complains.

You did the right thing to help her out as her case is genuine. I think there are many more like her who has their discussions deleted without being defended. They just surrender to the admin actions.

Alice is the best person to handle this matter. I am sure she is working on it now.

Your suggestion is great and hope admin look into the copyright issue so we won't end up victims of plagiarizing.

I don't think mylot has all the time to go to in depth investigation like that. Unless the OP make a lot of sound when her discussion is unfairly deleted for no fault of hers.

Hopefully this problem will be dealt with seriously before it become cancerous.

Definitely the upgrade has seen a lot of changes in mylot and that come with a heavy price when what supposed to be the property of mylot has been stolen and used in other places much to the annoyance of the original poster of the discussions.