About Reading the Guidelines

"Do you know any part of the guidelines that is hard to follow?" Sure, I do. I myself have a hard time following these particular guidelines: Don't respond to a discussion until you've read all of the responses. I can understand when it comes to something that has been resolved (and by resolved I don't mean it was given a BR), but for discussions that receive pages upon pages of responses, it's just impossible for a lot of us to do that. Make sure you search for existing topics before starting new discussions and don't post similar or identical postings. With there being millions of discussions on here it's kind of hard to avoid starting similar discussions. So I've kind of given up on searching for existing topics. However, I do my best to make my discussions my own to help avoid them getting deleted. As you already know the guidelines on here are exactly that...guidelines. The are not hard and fast rules. All any of us can do is interpret them and go on from there. Happy mylotting!

At first thing before confusing about the star in our name what mean about then checked in the guidelines and read in various discussion which I now I known about. Other things a little confuse about the ratings why some old comer here are less in rating number which other in the mid are higher than them - what is the real determining the rating, by participation, by commenting or what?

Hi Letran Actually I found that early on while getting the deletion email alerts and viewing the guidelines in a separate tab simultaneously helped me clearly understand the violation. I feel have the vast majority of the guidelines memorized. Simply because even to date I still review them. I tend to enter a great deal of discussions questioning the guidelines and although I do know the guidelines memorized I do like to take a look and quote. So while there I tend to skim them again to make sure nothing has changed. I think everyone should visit them often as it is dependent in assuring we do not violate them and what better way to understand for future if we don't continually view them. It certainly helps to have full understanding here.

Hi LK In my starting days I was little confused about them even after reading all of them as some of my discussions got deleted in past. And i was confused about reason of deletion. But after having little more experience I can understand the reasons now. So yes guidelines are quite clear here but still due to inexperience some user can break them not purposely.

Hi! Well, I must say that when I join sites, I really don't read the guidelines that much.. same here with mylot. So I'm just surprised when my comment/discussion was/were deleted all of a sudden. Only then did I consider reading the guidelines. Honestly, the guidance about not making poll like discussions is the hardest for me. One of my discussions had been deleted because of that reason. What if I asked like "Do you...", then is it going to be a poll?? I see others who do such discussions, but why are theirs not deleted? I see some discussions poll like but they are not deleted. So I got confuse. I want to start discussions asking, but I'm afraid it'll go to the trash for that reason. About stating earnings and others, I think I can control myself with those.

I read the guidelines, but did not really comprehend them clearly. I thought as I write and respond they will make sense. So far I'm doing well with my responses. Responding to quality discussions they'll be accepted according to the guidelines. so theory and practice make sense.

hi letran no really I had no trouble reading or understanding the guidelines but then I am American and English is my mother tongue and sadly I am not bilingual either tho I did take French and Spanish in college I am not fluent in either one though I can read pretty well in either language just cannot speak it. I have taken\ to going back and reread lately as there might be some changes. Now I must finish commenting on my new discussion.lol.

well I myself did not read the guidelines honestly, but instead I have read blogs regarding this site. In that way I could comprehend the guidelines and rules implemented on this site. The guidelines on this site is not that hard to follow but it is hard to comprehend.

i also had a very hard time sticking to the guidelines ...beacause these guidelines sometime drives you crazy ...it just very difficult to stick to them .thought we dont delibrately violate them but we do tend to violete them ...