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@carpenter5 (6782)

• United States

5 Dec 10

It seems to me that recipes have always been a way for women to communicate. many friendships in many cultures have been formed and bonded over a cup of coffee and a piece of cake! I understand if the recipe is simply compied from a book and no question or anything was involved, but this discussion that I'm speaking of was far from that.

mi2ok02

@mi2ok02 (406)

• United States

13 Feb 10

Yes, it does seem crazy. I haven't been here in a VERY long time but I get email alerts to articles. I have not seen any recipes in a really long time. So do we now have to email them instead of creating an article?

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@carpenter5 (6782)

• United States

22 Feb 10

That would be my guess. I rarely send PM's here. I had been sending them occasionally when I noticed a post that was just one sentence or didn't ask a question. I would send the member a message and just warn them that those kinds of things were a no-no here at mylot.

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Heather Echola

@GardenGerty (157551)

• United States

13 Feb 10

I believe recipes, and jokes became no nos when some people were only copying and pasting recipes and jokes, and no one was discussing anything. Basically they were spamming. I have seen discussions about recipes, and have made one or two myself but that is never all that is in the discussion. There are a lot of discussions about food on MyLot.

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Heather Echola

@GardenGerty (157551)

• United States

22 Feb 10

If you believe that they way you posted your recipe was a discussion, and that it was removed in error, you need to contact admin and give them your reasoning. Lately I have had friends who did this and got their discussion restored. If something is really a violation they should be able to explain it better to you.

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Heather Echola

@GardenGerty (157551)

• United States

22 Feb 10

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@carpenter5 (6782)

• United States

22 Feb 10

I guess my biggest frustration is that if a post asks for a valid discussion...a question for instance that can be commented on and answered...why is is this a no-no and some of the other stuff is a go ahead? I guess someone just hasn't bothered to report them. Perhaps I'm going to have to change my way of thinking here. I could never be vindictive in it, but Maybe I should start hitting the report button instead of simply ignoring them and going on to the next one.

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xfahctor

@xfahctor (14118)

• Lancaster, New Hampshire

12 Feb 10

Has been since I first started almost 4 years ago,,,lol....guess ya just missed it. No big deal, I thought for the longest time that posting discusions asking things answered in the FAQ's was a violation, discovered a few weeks ago after re reading them it wasn't. I feel bad now for all the discusions i reported on account of it.

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@carpenter5 (6782)

• United States

12 Feb 10

I don't see the point in reporting them. Sorry, I'm just not that kind of person. I'd rather send them a private message and say. "Hey, look you really need to fix this." Why hurt someone else who simply doesn't know any better? If I spent my time searching for those that break a rule, I'd never do anything constructive on here.

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@carpenter5 (6782)

• United States

12 Feb 10

I guess it is just me, but that just seems mean to report them, knowing that they're going to be deleted, out of ignorance. I guess I just spent too many years in the education system, and am still in the mindset of teaching rather than punishing. Now for someone that continually does it, that's one thing, but for a first offense? At some point, there needs to be some middle ground.

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@mysdianait (66009)

• Italy

12 Feb 10

Carpenter there is EVERY point in reporting them, especially know that Lotters are notified that a discussion/response/comment has been deleted. They will then learn not to repeat that type of topic which also causes others to lose out too when they lose the response. Alice has pointed out many times that in the Guidelines we are asked to help out by reporting and those users who are not aware of the mistakes they are making are happy to learn so that they can alter and gain more in future instead of continuing unaware.

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@mysdianait (66009)

• Italy

12 Feb 10

If you read again you will see that recipes (and jokes and poems etc.) should not be used to START a discussion. Nowhere does it say that they cannot be included in a response. This line has been there for one heck of a long time, years.

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@carpenter5 (6782)

• United States

12 Feb 10

So I can ASK for one but I cannot share a good one with everyone else? That simply doesn't make sense to me. Do you know if there is a reason for this? I am not trying to start a riot here, I guess I just overlooked that. I knew about the jokes, and the e-mail forwards. I rarely even do that on my e-mail because it takes up so much time. I hate having to wade through all those "If you love God you'll do this" kind of things to get to the important stuff.

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@mysdianait (66009)

• Italy

12 Feb 10

You can share a good one but not to start a discussion. A discussion must be quality and just posting a recipe is far from that. There are many ways of starting topics and receiving recipes in the responses though and I'm sure you can think of some. Just a recipe would give little to discuss and that is what myLot is about. There are many sites available for recipes including other forums while here we earn for discussing. You cannot start a topic asking for a recipe for this or that. There is no discussion there either and we have the searchbar for that sort of thing.

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@mysdianait (66009)

• Italy

12 Feb 10

That's what I was trying to say too in too much of a hurry proabbly. I find it logical that just a recipe, in the same way that a joke, a riddle, a poem, a limerick and all the rest, does not make for a discussion topic.

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beatrizguiselle

@beatrizguiselle (1118)

• Spain

12 Feb 10

I'm just waiting for my payment to go bye bye! I don't see why a recipe be deleted... I remember once I asked how to make cheese! I really wanted to know... that never got deleted though...

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@carpenter5 (6782)

• United States

12 Feb 10

This discussion was not about a post being deleted. That is why I started it, but not the topic. I asked a question about when it became a rule, because when I started here at mylot, you COULD post recipes. When I do, I try to phrase them in a question, and figure out a way to make it a true discussion. I understand it's a rule, I'm not questioning that. I was asking WHEN.

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EvrWonder

@EvrWonder (3571)

• Canada

13 Feb 10

The rule in the discussion guidelines has been there since I started on MyLot and that was some years ago. There are other ways to share recipes. Build a website and post in your profile and on your website, allow people to sign up so to be able to exchange recipes. Use email with your friends on MyLot. I know I love recipes also. I can understand MyLot's point of view though. As other members have commented, the guideline states that a recipe can not be used to strat a discussion but may be able to be fit into a response. I would double Lot first though. You can contact MyLot by following the contact link on the bottom of any MyLot page.

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@EvrWonder (3571)

• Canada

13 Feb 10

re: strat = start re: I would double Lot = I would double check with MyLot first though. I am not sure what happened to the whole of that sentence but here it is, again. Cheers.

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@carpenter5 (6782)

• United States

22 Feb 10

I call things like that my "computer gremlin" It happens to me quite often. Unfortunately

I tried to send a text message earlier to my daughter, and I don't know what happened but she sent me back a question mark. When I looked back at the text I sent, it was just a bunch of characters and numbers. I guess I hit a wrong button somewhere. I just don't want to start e-mailing. I get so many already, many of them junk, that I can't wade through them now.

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Shaunee

@Shaun72 (15959)

• Palatka, Florida

16 Feb 10

That does seem crazy. I guess I need to reed over the discussion guidelines myself in Mylot.You are totally right we all have to eat to survive. That seems really strange to me to not have a discussion about a recipe.

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@carpenter5 (6782)

• United States

22 Feb 10

Well, it's water under the bridge now, and I will definately know better next time. I just feel really bad for those of you who responded to the discussion, and ended up losing money. Someone else mentioned that it would be nice to be contacted when discussion was deleted that we'd responded to. It would be much nicer than just logging on to see money missing from our accounts.

ElicBxn

@ElicBxn (63235)

• United States

16 Feb 10

recipes have been a no-no since I joined, but they do seem to be much stricter than they used to be same thing with jokes I think its because it would otherwise be just full of people just posting recipes from who knows where and not discussions - and that's what they want it to be - discussions

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ElicBxn

@ElicBxn (63235)

• United States

23 Feb 10

Yeah, I figured those weren't allowed early on and didn't respond to those. I do know what you mean, I've almost 150 notifications, but all I need is a nice, quiet evening to get on them and I can pound them out quickly enough - mostly because I only respond to maybe 1 in 3, just knowing which ones!

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@carpenter5 (6782)

• United States

22 Feb 10

I used to respond to discussions that said "Forwarded from my E-mail" and ended up losing money right and left from them. That was when I first started here, and there were ALOT of those here. I'm kind of glad the powers that be put an end to them. I have enough trouble keeping up with legitimate discussions from all my friends. I was looking at my e-mail earlier and I am so far behind responding to my friends discussions, that I'm not sure I'll ever catch up.

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terri0824

@terri0824 (4991)

• United States

16 Feb 10

That must have been the discussion that I responded to that got deleted. Wish they would state which discussion got deleted when they do that. I do remember that is one of the guidelines now that you mention it that recipes were not allowed. I also responded to it on Gather as well but recipes I know are allowed there. One thing it seems like it takes forever for points to add up at Gather now for some reason than when I was active there in the past.

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@carpenter5 (6782)

• United States

22 Feb 10

First of all Terri, let me say how sorry that I am that you lost money because I was stupid. That makes me feel really bad.

As for Gather, I've noticed the same thing. It seems like everytime they do an "Upgrade" it takes longer and longer to earn anything. I'm trying to decide what to do....But I have such good friends there and here, that it would seem a shame to stop even trying to communicate with them.

paula27661

@paula27661 (15811)

• Australia

14 Feb 10

I have been a member here for over a year and the no recipe rule has always applied. I guess you can share recipes but the discussion itself is not supposed to be just about the recipe; that’s my take on it. I guess one can always swap recipes via pms that’s another way to communicate with friends! You could start a discussion about food I suppose as long as it’s not just a recipe. I guess the rules are for us to follow whether we agree with them or not. Lemon squares sound yummi...Uhmmm...

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@carpenter5 (6782)

• United States

22 Feb 10

It's not that I really disagree with the rule in general. I just didn't know it was there, and I have called myself reading the guidelines many times over the years. I guess what the old saying about "seeing what you think it should say" could apply here. Or I'm just getting old one of the two.

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mariposaman

@mariposaman (2959)

• Canada

12 Feb 10

I joined a year and a half ago approximately and recipes were verboten when I joined. DON'T Post jokes, recipes, etc. as discussions. This is a form of abuse and all recipes and jokes will be deleted if they are started as a discussion. has always been there since I joined. I am not sure if this includes recipes added into the answers. Maybe because they are really not original content created by yourself, but just copied from elsewhere.

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