I stepped on landmines!

Hi zandi, So far, I consistently have two posts being deleted everyday because of repeated or guidelines violation discussions. And I aware of it most of the time. I did not mind to give a response to the discussion that would be deleted if the discussion starter need some help about mylot like profiles things or whatever. But usually I just give a very short response or just a link to the related topics. I do not want to break anything here but just lend some help to the needy. But, sometimes I also fall in the trap that I did not aware off. And I am very piss yesterday because of this. I blame it on myself though. How did I forgot that most of the money earnings discussions was most probably being deleted? Lost my awareness maybe. What piss me off is I write a long response for that and it definitely take a lot of my time to made it. Sometimes it is a little bit confusing about the guidelines because it is too general. That why we can see a few discussions would be deleted just after it is posted and a few survive a little bit longer and a few has immortality. Or maybe mylot admin just did not find it yet.

I've had that mistakes several times in the past. These days, I've been quite careful. It is really a waste of time to respond lengthily and substantially to a post only to be deleted after a day or two. Sometimes though I could not understand why a post was deleted when I found it not really violating any rules. Well anyway, myLot knows better than me on how to implement their guidelines so I just had to accept the deletion whether I like it or not.

You are not alone in stepping on landmines. Everyone has such experiences. The notification from mylot informing me of my response being deleted really annoys me not a little. Indeed, some newbies don't take time to study guidelines and start discussions end up being deleted, bringing trouble to those who respond. Most mylotters, i believe, are serious in following the guidelines. But still, we can't figure out sometimes why a discussion got deleted. There seems no reason for it being deleted. But none of us can give a valid explanation except the mylot admin. So all we can do is to be prudent in selecting discussions.

I know what you mean. I responded to a discussion a couple of weeks ago. IN a way I should have guessed, it was religion related and things were said that could easily offend some. My own personal responses however took views from both sides into account. I guess I'm just one of those people who tries to understand an argument from both sides. In any case, the discussion was deleted along with my couple of responses. Like I say, I should have guessed from the topic that it wouldn't last. But I think sometimes we don't really think (maybe we're tired at the time or whatever) but, the end result is that we have wasted our time... though, I have to say that my time may not have been completely wasted. If certain people saw my responses I hope they learned something from them... ie. that not having the same opinion as others doesn't mean that you have to stoop to insulting them or their intelligence

I have had several answers to discussions deleted and know not why. I try my best to keep my answers simple and to the point but also if I see a discussion out of whack I PM the sender. The loopholes are a mystery to me tho.

Hi Zandi. I also stepped on landmines... Even if I know 'the rules' and even if I've been read the guidelines, sometimes I found my responce or discussion got deleted. There is no point for warnings from the OPs. I mean, if the OP knows that they will delete his/her discussion, then OP will not going to start this discussion...

Not sure I know that some I responded to got deleted and I had no idea why for I thought they were very good post right now cant think of what they were about ut they got axed as you say and so did I

Hi Zandi! One of the loopholes which many don't realise are those discussions which seem to have a perfect topic, almost too perfect, and are deleted because they are not the original work of the user. There are some of those almost every darn day They are easy to spot sometimes too. The topic is in perfect English, set out really well, and then the comments to the responses are in broken English I still receive notifications every day for those discussions where I respond answering questions which are already answered in the FAQs. I toy with the idea of not responding but that might make a new user think that we are a hostile bunch here, so I respond and tell them that they will lose their discussion. I often make a new friend when that happens so it's well worth losing a point

hi zandi you and I must have responded to the same four discussions as I also got four notifications too. I am also wondering why people do not want to read the guidelines and rules for making discussions and follow 'them as I have read them and I follow them. They are not just shooting themselves in the foot, they are shooting us in the foot too, as I did not think I had goofed that badly. I did make one response to one of my close mylot friends that I was afraid might be deleted, she was just unfortunate that she had not seen some others had already made discussions on the same news item. the other three though are a puzzle as usually I am really careful not to respond to those that look like they have broken a rule.zandi I was just thinking maybe for us poor losers who sometimes do not see that the discussion has broken a rule, maybe when mylot admins. sends us the notification they could add this broke rule blah blah,then we might be more able to bypass that particular type of rule breaking discussion. I have read the rules on discussions over several times, and I think maybe some we lose responses on may just be the problem of too many discussions in the same day on the s ame exact almost word for word topic.

there are really discussions that have clear violations so if it's clear, it is also clear to me that i should not respond to them. sometimes, i remind the OP but there are times, i am misunderstood for responding to it with reminders to review the guidelines... so far, i never got trapped in a discussion that i thought is clear of any violations.

Hi Zandi,this happens to me all the time...And you are right its hard to predict which discussions will get axed...I too am very careful while mylotting to stay away from controversial topics but it turns out that its usually innocent discussions that disappear with out a trace..It will be nice if mylot has some warning signal when we post our discussions that they are breaking some guidelines..Its not possible for us to remember all the guidelines while posting our discussions...

hi zandi.i have read the guidelines for several times but yet i do'nt understand why some discussions or responses get deleted. i do'nt found any proper cause to delete.

hello zandi dear i am also confused like you, have read the guide lines several times, when a discussion gets deleted mylot gives the reason i am choosy in my responses too, i don't respond to each and all, hate the generic kind of discussions.. Thanks for this nice post, cheers God bless you. Prof

I am really new to mylot, and the same thing already happened to me. One discussion that I responded to got deleted. It drives me crazy! I do not even think there was anything wrong with the discussion, but apparently there was because it was deleted. I do not think you lost your concentration. I think you were just looking for a good discussion and happened to make the wrong choice. I do stuff like that all the time, not just here. It's kinda scary.