How important are the guidelines to you?

Hi SCG! I have read the guidelines and I try my best to keep those guidelines in mind, while working on mylot. However, it is possible that sometimes we exceed the laid down guidelines inadvertently. I do not observe others so closely whether they are following the guidelines or not, it is for them to decide because I have seen some of the users jumping in some discussions to tell the concerned user that s/he is voilating one or the other guidelines.

I always try to follow them so I won't have posts deleted which break the rules. I put a lot of work into my posts, so it grieves me to have them pulled! If you want to maximize your experience here, & even make more money, do yourself a favor & read the guidelines. Often. Sometimes they change, but in any case, it never hurts to refresh the memory. If you have questions, look up "GoAskAlice," a MyLot moderator, & see if someone has already asked the question you want to ask. She helps clarify the guidelines, which can be confusing, & she eventually does answer questions. She's also very nice. Maggiepie MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY 2010!!!

I go to them at least once a day. There is always someone asking something or, especially in the money interests, violating one or another of them so I copy/paste whichever bit is applicable to add to my response. Many of them baffled me for a long time so I read them over and over again and then asked if I still couldn't fathom them out and got my answers. Some of them seem complicated but they are all based on logic IMO. I feel they are extremely important both fot the reputation of myLot and, in the case of plagiarism, for the sake of the honest users here. No-one should think they can reach payout copying the work of others

I try to follow guidelines. Sometimes I wonder about them though especially when a friend get their discussion deleted and I haven't seen anything wrong with it. I guess my favorite would be not posting referral links. I wouldn't want my discussions to be full of spam.

I read through the guidelines before I started posting, and every now and again, I refer back to clarify a doubt or if someone asks me something I'm not sure about. It's quite obvious lots of people have never read them because they either take the lazy way out and ask about this, that, and the other, or they post a guideline breacher which we know will disappear. I used to go in and help people, but I started losing my own posts, and most of the violators don't take any notice of you anyway, so I rarely do it these days. I'll help anyone who wants advice, any time, but I don't like banging my head up against a brick wall. The only time I know I violated guidelines was when I named another member in the lead in to a discussion. I was making a discussion based on an expression she used, and I didn't want to be seen as pinching her words, but of course, I shouldn't have named her. I should have PM'd and said what I wanted to do first and then attributed the phrase to 'a friend on MyLot.' At least I won't do that again. My favourite guideline? The one against plagiarism - not that it seems to stop people. There's even a discussion up at the moment where someone who's had 3 plagiarised discussions deleted is looking for sympathy.

I would like to get some guidelines about some fishing on the internet!are you interested in it?

As I go along participating guideliness will get etched in my system and that is how one gets the hang of it. So far I have not violated any of them as I am pretty guarded and even if I do I take it as an experience so that any violation will not be repeated.

hi, yes guidelines are so important for my lot users because with out guidelines the people can use this as their wish so first know the guidelines,my lot do's and don't with out knowing that if we do this also it was waste.

Now.. I always refer to the guidelines. I am newbie here, so that's why. But I think if I already old here I will also refer always to the guidelines if I'm not sure to what I will going to do. And I think referring often to guidelines makes you more familiar and safe. I think so. :-)