Do you think Mylot is a little to strict about their guidelines?

I do not think the the guidelines here at My lot are to strict, and if everybody would read them, and follow them nothing would be deleted. The rules were put into place based on what the administration believes is right to have a quality site. and if we want to participate here, then we need to follow their rules.

I think that mylot has become such a huge community lately. I think it's up to all of us to read through the guidelines and do our best to follow them. It's gonna take alot of work to keep mylot as the great site that it is. And its up to all of us to do our part.

Hi Seppy, First of all sorry for what happened to you. Dont feel very bad for that. Instead see to that you do not break the guidelines anymore again and it is better if you read guidelines for one last time. Even mine discussion was removed recently in make extra money. i dint used referral link. i dint promoted any company. i just had an idea to share it for earning 2 dollars quick. too bad it was deleted where nearly 40 peoples were interested with my idea. Till so far, i say that Mylot still don't have very strict rules. but at the same time, the only thing which i cannot agree is suspending ones account without excuse(even for small reasons). According to me, excuses must be given depending upon the mistake done. Its very unfair when it happens for 1year, 2years members here. I have worried for that!

yes i sometimes thing so there are times were i look at the guidlines and i do a disscution and i fellow every thing and they still get rid of it.

I refuse to believe that. Since this is a legitimate site, it is important for them to clearly set out rules that each member should obey and take note of. WIth earnings concerned, some people might be tempted to cheat their way through. And with these guidelines, the administrators will have a way to monitor or control the behavior of its users to maintain a healthy earning and interactive effort within mylot. That way, it is fair for everybody.

It's not that mylot is "little strict" but they are "Strict" with the rules. and they are monitoring us 24/5 (because they're on day off in weekends) but they are watching us and I aknow from experience that if i screw up then they either delete my post...or my account.they did it once...well, i guess those milestones had not been reported yet, you could have done it yourself, though. i do know they're strict.

In my opinion, another reason that we are asked not to post about milestones is not only that they are repetitive but also that they don't really allow for other people to contribute their thoughts and opinions - which is really what good discussion content is about. I mean, if we were to post about milestones (such as earning a specific amount of money, making a certain number of posts, or even about reaching a certain birthday), what more is there for the rest of the members to discuss about that? They can offer their congratulations, most certainly, or they could share that they too have reached that milestone (or hope to) but there is no value to myLot in that type of discourse. In fact, most of the replies would be very repetitive in nature, as well, and they make it quite clear that that is not want they want. I manage, and sometimes moderate, online communities for a living. The guidelines and terms of service are all you have to maintain structure and, hopefully, quality. They have to be applied objectively at all times -- there should never be any grey area. A guideline is not applied in one case and ignored in another case. The hardest part for me - and what a lot of folks don't realize with sites that do have moderation in place - is that sites are not always on full moderation. I've worked for clients that only have partial moderation (meaning that certain things will "trigger" a post to be moderated). Some of my clients - particularly with high-traffic forums - have/had queued moderation which means that moderators do not go into the community and read every word that is posted (contrary to what members may believe). They work from an administrative queue where they see the content that is most likely problematic. This queue would include posts fed to it from any kind of escalation or reporting function, as well. As a moderator on some of my clients' sites, I've been called every name under the sun and the implication is always that I don't know how to do my job, don't know how to do it fairly, or I must simply be an idiot for not dealing with one post or another. I assure you that none of those things are true :) Because my work was transparent (i.e., I was not permitted to post), I had no way to explain or address those criticisms. I could only do what my client had stated I could do. Please understand that I have no idea about myLot practices and I would never presume anything at all about their process here. I'm only sharing personal experience and how it relates to my belief that guidelines are really important and that it's pretty hard to ever be too strict about them.

I don't really think the guidelines are particularly strict, but I can understand where you're coming from. The milestones restriction is warring with human nature a bit -- people naturally want to share their online accomplishments with other users and never would imagine there could be something "wrong" with that. For readers, such discussions tend to be rather boring and not too conducive to discussions, but honestly I personally don't mind the odd milestone post in this category since myLot related topics tend to be repeated over and over again anyway as newbies often have similar difficulties learning their way around the site. There could even be a milestones category setup devoted purely to the mentioning of milestones! For whatever reason, though, myLot doesn't want milestone posts and I don't really mind following that rule.

hi afraid I dont agree, I think there are good reasons for the guidelines as we used to have a ton of nothing but milestones and that is not a discussion, you arent giving the responder any real question, you are just asking for applause, and for a time they seem to crowd out real discussions about real problems that other mylotters were having, so mylot had to finally draw the line.you can message your mylot friends to give them a chance to congratulate you on milestones but a lot of us are not interested in those discussions.

Personally, I do not think that the mylot guidelines are too strict. I find them fairly straight forward.

I think it is good that mylot takes it's guidlines seriously and they are very strict. It helps other users and keeps their sight at its best. I see nothing wrong with enforcing the rules that they have set out, and that all of us should have read. If you read them and didn't like them than you should have never joined the sight in the fist place. Or you should just follow them. These rules are nothing new.

hi seppy, iam also another victim of mylot while in violating rule,so two of my discussions were removed,what to do,have a nice day

Hi Seppy1984, I have joined here just two weeks before and I am enjoying a lot here. But two of my discussion were deleted on the very first day due to my ignorance to the guidelines. But I wanna be active here and am active and following the guidelines till now. Some newbies really never have any attention to the TOS and guidelines. But its necessary in my view to have these strictness for the site to be good and LEGIT. I don't think its too strict but its strict. It is necessary. Nice discussion. Have a nice day... Cheers...

In my own opinion I believe that when there are guidelines to be followed and inforced that they should be for everyone rather than for some and not for others. What is the purpose of having them if you are going to pick and choose who you will be enforcing them with?