ive been at mylot so long that now

United States
April 28, 2010 12:43pm CST
i have gotten to where i cant remember if i have already done discussions on certain topics or not! i have an awful memory as is but being here off and on 2 years has me worried i will end up having a discussion i already had X amount of months ago then get into trouble!! have you accidentally done a similar discussion twice because time had passed by and you had forgotten you had already posted it? and had so many you had already started that you cant even begin to sort through your old ones because there are so many?
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18 responses
• United States
28 Apr 10
I have been here so long that Its scary to look back at ALL my old posts. I have not been on here in a while because I have been so busy but luckily, i have not reposted any of my posts yet. Though Im sure some have. I dont think it affects anything though
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• United States
30 Apr 10
i dont have much faith in their search engine either.. i have a horrible memory and with me wondering if their search is working right im afraid ill double and be looked at as a cheater.. but a lot of my ideas used to come from the news so thats always changing and i should be safe on those lol
@aidenw (632)
• United States
28 Apr 10
i don't think i would have that problem since i haven't started that many discussions. when i'm on here i usually respond to other people's discussions. i don't know how reliable the search function is,but can you search before you post to see if it has already been posted?
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• United States
30 Apr 10
i do search and on some subjects its hard to believe that NO ONE hasnt dont it before.. ive done too many personally to look through my own because it would take hours.. so i just gotta hope that the search function works good
@hora_fugit (5862)
• India
29 Apr 10
The only time I posted similar discussions was when it got posted twice, accidently I don't start much.. besides i go back to see what is unresolved, so they are always fresh in my mind. I used to have a lot of discussion topics that time, but now I'm content with responding. My memory isn't good either. And it's so hard to find out whether I have responded to a particular discussion or not!
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• India
4 May 10
I too do that!
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• United States
4 May 10
this is my trick to remembering if i replied to some ones discussion or not.. i always rate the person that made the discussion so if i go to answer something and its already been rated i know i have already been there done that! because i have a few times answered the same discussion 2 times a month apart lol
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@twoey68 (13627)
• United States
29 Apr 10
I do that sometimes too. Most of the discussions I can remember but sometimes whent the titles are simular, I can't. It's not a huge deal to me...Now the ones I've started, I never forget...I know every one of them. [b]**AT PEACE WITHIN** ~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~[/b]
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• United States
5 May 10
i think most of the time it might not be a big issue since i do some breaking news type discussions and hopefully freak of nature news doesnt happen over and over again lol
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
29 Apr 10
Hey moonlit! You know you are not alone in these thoughts! I have now been here almost three years in June and I don't remember either if I have done a discussion on something or not! It has been a very long time or at least it sure seems like it! And I don't even do that many discussions to begin with! I know that a few of them were deleted after being here for two years since the last "mylot clean out"! So, if you do another discussion and it is similar, who is going to know if even you can't remember?lol
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• United States
1 May 10
thats true if i cant remember who else will?? lol
@rosekiss (30380)
• Eugene, Oregon
28 Apr 10
I have only been a year, and I haven't started all that manu discussions, but to my knowledge, I have never repeated any of my discussions. I never had any of them deleted either, at least not to my knowledge. It is easy to repeat discussions over time, but I will do a search first to see if there is any there from the topic I chose, and if there isn't, then I go ahead and post it. I would just rather post responses as it is much easier, and I don't have to worry about posting repeat discussions. Good luck to you and happy mylotting.
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• United States
1 May 10
sometimes i cant think of things to say to peoples discussions though
• Canada
2 May 10
I have done that once or twice but I am usually pretty good at remembering those things.
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• United States
5 May 10
you must have a great memory! especially compared to your points!
@mayka123 (16583)
• India
23 Oct 11
I too have a badmemory sometimes but I dont think I have resposted any discussion. Atlease I have not noticed so and nobody else has pointed it out to me. I hope it does not happen in future too. But anyway I think that the same discussion after a couple of years will have different responses and a lot of new mylotters would get a chance to participate too.
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• United States
23 Oct 11
yeah i dont think it would be too horrible if it got repeated years later but id still feel silly that i had done it
@neildc (17239)
• Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines
29 Apr 10
so far, this never happened to me. though maybe i have started a similar to those i have posted long time ago, as i am also a 2 year old mylotter like you, i don't think it made me post the same content or the same deliverance of the past.
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• United States
23 Oct 11
we are both 3 year mylotters now!
@maezee (41997)
• United States
29 Apr 10
I'm sure I have. I honestly.. Forget about what I've talked about before. I know within the past year and a half or so that I've been here..I've started probably about 1,000 discussions. I'm guessing there is some overlapping in the topics I've talked about. And yes! I definitely haven't gone through my old discussions..Ever. I'm so bad. I forget to do the best response deal and to resolve them..*shrugs*. Oh well. It's a little late now! So I know how you feel, totally. lol.
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• United States
5 May 10
ugh and some discussions get so many replies i dont have time to go through and just pick one!
• India
29 Apr 10
Hi moon I always keep a copy of the discussion started by me, so there is less chance of repeation, well there may be similar discussions but not identical So far i have not made a similar discussion or comments twice.. Thank you so much for this nice discussion, cheers God bless you. Prof
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• United States
5 May 10
how do you keep a copy of it? book mark it or copy it to your pc?
• Philippines
29 Apr 10
first of all, congratulations for making that far... I wish I'm like you. I just started few weeks from now so I haven't done discussions that much and still don't even got at least $1.00 of earning. Well, of course, you might probably cross some same discussions you've responded before with the publicity of MyLot and by those thousands of mylotters here. Of course, some may not know that a topic was already been discussed even a hundred times. Like, what one of my respondents said that my discussion regarding "what's your favorite color?" has always been posted. Since I'm still somehow new here I can still remember the topics I've responded though it's not clear of the title itself. For you, it's fine that you answer again those topics you've answered before. By the way, the person who started the discussion didn't know if you answered the post before. Ha ha. At least, you keep on sharing your thoughts, and you keep on earning. On the other hand, I supposed you even posted some discussions somebody has posted already. Thus, it is very fine. Ha ha.
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• United States
5 May 10
as long as it doesnt happen often i think it wont be a huge problem
@viviya (88)
• China
29 Apr 10
I am new here. I haven't encountered the same situation as you.but i think it is not really a trouble.since 2 years is not a short time,many things would happen.If you forgot something,it's not unbearable.Relax yourself.
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• United States
5 May 10
i think there would be enough time between to hopefully not matter since i took a pretty long break
@amelly (1554)
• Malaysia
29 Apr 10
i think there's nothing wrong with it.although i just started 3 days ago but i'm already addicted to mylot.but for sure in the next 4 or 5 years i might ask same kind of questions all over again..
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• United States
5 May 10
it is very addictive! i was on here 24.7 till i hit about my 6th or so month then finally got burned out for awhile and now trying to get back into it
• Philippines
29 Apr 10
So far I haven't experienced that here but what I did have was the topic was posted twice whenever I got an error on my internet connection. Several times that it did happen to me, and as what we all know, we cannot delete that topic and just make a note on the post to the Admin to delete it because it the other one was redundant. I have posted some topics but not necessarily the same as to what others have posted. But to be sure, I really don't post much question not unless I really wanted other people's opinion here. But I do enjoy most on answering my friends discussion rather than I starting a new topic.
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• United States
4 May 10
yeah i had the internet or mylot one screw up just now and i accidently pm'd some one twice just as i had a discussion before and i know with the discussion i wrote admin to have them deleted it
@nijolechu (1842)
• Canada
29 Apr 10
I have been on Mylot for a while now. But I don't really start all that many new discussions for myself. When I have to look back on my old discussion, I agree that it can be very demanding to reply to all the responses that you get. I can understand why you would forget about a discussion you have made if you make so many.
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• United States
1 May 10
that and since i have been on mylot i have had several medications changed for health problems that have made my memory gone for a few months so thats always a worry that i have already posted it and then it been while i was on meds that made my memory foggy..
• United Arab Emirates
29 Apr 10
I have not been here so long but i have seen people who have and i want you to know that with just 7570 discussion post and you say there's no discussion you almost have not posted....anyway you have come a long way and am glad to see your constitency but you have to search there are more interesting topics added daily, happy Mylotting
• United States
1 May 10
i used their search but i dont think it works because some things i want to post about i would have thought some one had jumped on them before me
@bagputza (504)
• Belgium
29 Apr 10
Wow , two years of Mylloting it has becomed in a way addictive , well actually i hope one day i will get to have your number of posts and also i need to start myself some discussions too , but i am really not a inspired person when it come to start a discussion , as it goes for your question , i cann say that it hasn't yet happened to me to forget if i already started a discussion or not , since i think i have none of discussion started , but i am pretty sure that untill now , i have already answerred more times to the same type of discussions , but surely not coming from you ( no worryes there lolz ) Have a nice day dear friend.
• United States
23 Oct 11
three years now! i hope you havent given up on participating here!