I am completely Mystified!

I have asked about many of these discussions that seem to be all right and not violate the guidelines. The problem can be that some of the responses violated guidelines or the posters comments violated the guidelines. So it's not the topic itself that causes deletions all the time. I've had a discussion deleted due to others responses. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~

I don't think Mylot would delete anything without a reason maybe it was copy and pasted or some other break within the guidlines, I guess there must have been a reason.

Did the discussion have a referral link? If so, then that is why its gone, as mylot has stated they aren't allowed in the discussion. Was the topic clear and easy to understand? I have noticed more questions that I can't figure out what they are saying. Was the post in English, as I saw several posts in another language that were deleted.

i still havent figured out how this site works so i havent bothered to even start any discussions yet.

I would have to send an email to mylot to find out what was the problem in that discussion and hopefully they'll send you a message back explaining what the deal is. I don't know which one it was so I can't do it but I would if I could. It doesn't make sense to have a discussion deleted for no apparent reason so I'd be asking them why.

yeah it's strange here because the same happened to me too!!i opened a discussion simple and without problems such as bad words or something like offensive or copy/paste text but i saw they deleted it without notification about the delation...and also now i don't know what was wrong...i'm confused also because i joined just yesterday and some strange facts happened!!

The deletions of perfectly "normal" discussions are very confusing. From what I´ve read here, posts which don´t contribute to the mylot community are being deleted. Who and how a relevant contribution is determined is something I haven´t found out about yet. It seems to be rather subjective. I´ve come across discussions like the one you´ve mentioned, which were deleted even though they got a lot of quality answers which shows that people were interested in the subject. Nevertheless they got deleted.

Friend, the great article may have been plagiarised from someone else. Or from another site, with no credit given, and nothing of his/her own added to make it an original post.

It doesn't have to be the person who started the discussion. Some people who reply say inappropriate things, or they start a fight, or they post referral links. And that is when mylot deletes it.

It's sometimes hard to understand why discussions get deleted but there are times that other factors also contribute to the deletion. If a member gets deleted, all their posts get deleted too. If it was a new member, they may have been deleted for reasons other than that specific "sports" post. As you got a few posts from this new member, it was probably their "next one" that got them deleted before the system even sent you a notice about a new post from your friend. I would hazard a guess that the posts were copied & pasted from somewhere else and that the plagiarism squad found it using special software or web tools specifically designed to find plagiarists.