Has your star gone down or a discussion been deleted because

If discussions get deleted just because they are reported then what is the point of having the Admins??? If discussions get reported I am certain those reports are considered before deletions take place because many months ago I reported a discussion which I thought was a copy of mine. It was not deleted becauae it was only considered to be similar but not a repeat. If discussions/responses/comments are reported and afterwards are indeed deleted then it is because there was a violation and NOT because of 'vendetta'. The very idea is insane and almost an offence to myLot surely? We have proof that they look after us all by the fact that they have altered the rating system and other such things so I am sure they would NOT delete without reason. Whether we, the users, are aware of the reason is another kettle of fish though.

I had it happen to me for a while. I dropped from a 10 to a 2 overnight all because I told someone the truth she didn't want to hear. She must have spent the whole day stalking me afterwords & marked everything with a -. I've since recovered most of the way.

There have been some question and answer sessions with the administrators here on mylot in the past, one in particular was pretty long and quite detailed. I learned a lot in that one, just reading through it. Anyway, one of the things I learned mods do not just delete threads just because they are reported. They do investigate. I have had a few threads of mine disapear, but I believe in every case I had violated the guidelines, as is the case with most thread and post deletions.

It is not easy for one person to bring down the ratings of another member. A person may have a vendetta, but there is only so much that he or she can do. Even if a group is involved, it requires some hard work. If you look at the guidelines the whole picture becomes clearer. Our ratings can also go down due to certain actions by us. The bottom line is we steer clear of any violations, and avoid getting deep into flaming attacks. MyLot has always been fair. We need to be patient, and try to understand the tasks that they face everyday.

I spent one full day on one thread, "SAVE THE WHALES" voicing my fervent opinion about something. I did it with the utmost respect, answering all questions, pointing out all fallacies, including links to movies and websites to help substantiate my point. I was friendly and never attacking. I actually got pinned agains the wall throughout it. But, I contributed A LOT to the conversation, more than any one paragraph poster. I started with a 70 star rating, and people did not like my opinion, and voted me negative. I was never once off topic; I gave thorough detail, etc. People on mylot can be petty.

As for post's I cant really tell you if people have weight or not in having them deleted. But through a certain investigation, of a young lady with a problem we have found that she had 26 post's deleted for no reason and over 150 replies. In fact Captain Ross asked everyone to read the post's and see why they would be removed.(luckily said lady kept all over her post's on her computer) There was no guideline violation's. Now, Miss Sandy one of the ladies whom goes into site's under cover, has found out that she had a problem with a member and before she knew it, her post's started being deleted, as well as many replies.(I am sure we will be seeing more problem's from that) I can assure you that Captain Ross, wasn't to happy about making a good response and having it deleted for no reason. The only reason why it was done was because he said Nice Avatar to the person.(see my response above, about goldbadge) Now as for the star rating, if you do some searches you will see that a few member's stated they had friend's bashing their star's for fun. According to such post's it took only about 20 - rating's to take them from a 9 to a 3 overnight. So I am sure that a small group could do it, or even one member could bring it down some. Of course I wouldn't ask my friend's to knock down my rating just to prove a point, but these member's did.

hey dragon!! you seem to have really gotten it going in here. i wanted to come to this discussion and say how do you know when someone has caused you to get deleted. but i read over some and it seems everyone has different ideas about the deletions, stars, etc. i still dont know why my little email poem was deleted. unless someone else got the email like that and made a discussion about it and thought i copied them. i wish admin. had some way of sending us a quick little explaination, maybe automated. so we wouldnt do it again.

well i'm not sure if my discussion has ever gotten deleted but it is possible because i don't know every rule on mylot but i know sometimes i forget to put mature content for some of my discussion so maybe that will have my discussion deleted but my star has gone down. i have no clue why i try to answer each question i answer with honesty and try not to be rude just because i disagree with someone i hate starting drama and arguing i got enough of that in my real life. so if my star goes down i'm upset but i try not to let it get to me because its just not worth all the stress and trying to figure out who did it. they got their revenge and theres nothing i can do about it. we just have to be careful on here about how we say things to people so it doesn't start a war. so if it ever happens to you try to remember the song move along by all american rejects well happy mylotting.

I do not know how it is done, but I can tell you a friend I use to have in here before, had some of her's removed for no reason other then she had one member that didn't like her. He constantly would go and post bad thing's on her discussion's, then he would report the discussion. The discussion's themselves were not violation's, but his replies were. The replies were not removed even after she reported them. But her discussion's were. So I believe that some people can have thing's removed just to be hateful.