I'm scared to use myLot search engine?

*giggle, giggle* I am not so much an expert as an amateur that does it in her spare time as a hobby ... otherwise I would not keep getting caught doing it.

I see : you started this discussion to learn how to not be caught.

I hesitated to comment in this box, because it is always difficult to comment in the box of a specialist of this particular "suspicious activity" who have already started a discussion about it : http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/2539076.aspx

Hi Starrose_ara :) You are right, it's them who encouraged us to use the myLot search engine. :P They said to use it the normal, natural way, and it really is how we use the search engine. :) By the way, so you also receive the warning. Do you often receive it? It really is kind of scary, because the term they used was "suspicious activity" lol. :)

Ummm ... I think that you are a little confused here, and you are combining two separate issues. The myLot search engine will search only myLot if you choose the "discussions", "tasks", "blogs", "photos" or "messages" options. The only time that it searches the entire Internet is if you choose the "web" option. Also, you are searching for either "tags" in a discussion or "full text search" in a discussion, so the search engine is not designed to search for individual members but rather discussions (or the other specific options already mentioned). MyLot does not ban every offender outright, especially for "minor" violations such as overusing the search feature, posting poll-type discussions, and some other things. You might get a warning for certain things, which you should definitely take seriously, but they do not generally suspend a person's account for their first offense ... unless it is something like plagiarism or multiple accounts or something like that.

We do not have to use the myLot search feature, and some people do not as they prefer other search engines. If we want to use it, though, it is available to us and offers us another opportunity to earn a few extra cents while we are getting the information that we are trying to obtain. As for the plagiarism, we get paid for our interactions here, so that is one of the main reasons why we should not put anything that is not our own work, even if it is available for use in the public domain. The person could easily have stated the main point and put a link to the information if anyone wanted to read the entire article (or whatever it was) rather than just copying and pasting it - that would have been the proper thing to do.

I don't think anyone should be paid for searching outside mylot, unless the search is restricted to, say, a few websites connected with mylot. I don't think the web option should be there, or if it is, it should be flagged for non-payment (and such flagging should exist). Her source is on the internet now, but I don't know that it was on there when she posted her post - she could just as easily have had to type it in from an old book. And knowing or finding out what material to post and which book to get it from probably involved considerably more work than the other contributors put in when they typed in their opinions - at similar length. As for "the main point", the main point was the entire quote - there wasn't a part of that quote that wasn't directly relevant to the discussion. We don't just post for the money (I wonder whether I'll even live to see my first $25 minus whatever the banks take and minus the depreciation in value because the $'s going down the chute), and the most that should be done to materially relevant posts is to make them non-paying. If the facility were available to indicate a post of mine that should be non-paying, I assure you I'd use it.

Sorry, little bit mistake on previous post. On the last sentence I supposed to say " ......,reward money just bonus for me"

Haha, yes. We both use the myLot search engine to look for information. The difference between us is that I use it too frequently. So I will still use it but not too much, and maybe use it to search for discussions. Yes, the reward in myLot is only an added bonus in using their search engine. :)