Do the DO's!

Yup but your "service announcements" Teaches us a thing or two.

Interesting enough. I guess the experience of both of you have made you learn all of the discussions. @hardworkinggurl: What do you mean by "service announcements"?

Occasionally PPE adds that to some of his discussions. Although some of the discussions he starts are things that can be found in the FAQ. However, since a lot of members don't really read, he likes to cater some interesting, fun and informative discussions that not only helps new members but continually reminds all users to read and or follow the guidelines. I have a great many of his discussions on various of his accounts bookmarked so when I see a lost member who after I give my response to, like to direct them to his "service announcements". Then later I can see they actually did read "service announcement", as their participation styles improves and or changes in the right direction.

If yours were violations then they would go. If they stay put then they are not, even though some are sooooo borderline

Hi there kate! PurplePeopleEater (who was another name at the time) helped me and I pass it on to others. If you are now helping newer users too then it is all so worthwhile! I find it to be fun helping out, especially when those who listen and use the advice get the same results that I get too and become happy Lotters

I don't think I do. I don't get comments or disscussions deleted or any banned warnings. mysdianait: you really helped me with mylot before thanks! I didn't know anything but you filled my brain with knowledge.Lol. Your always helping people on mylot. I'm starting to help people a bit say when they post a link to there site or when they do like one word answer or ask about money all the time. I just give them some advice.

When I start something new I want to know as much about it as possible. What better way to learn about a site than to read all the information provided by the site. I also have never really been a rule breaker. The only correspondence I have ever received from mylot has been positive. I would be mortified if they sent me something telling me I would be banned. Everyone is different though and that's what keeps mylot interesting. Never know what to expect from one discussion to another.

hi beanie fanatic I am the same way and somne here do not understand me but its the way I always do with a new website as it makes it easier to get along with others if you know sorta what to do on the site and how to use it. yes indeed we are all a bit different and that makes it interesting here.

If everybody would be like you, things would go smoother. But I have to admit that I wasn't so interested in reading the guidelines and the FAQ's, even if I may have known at that time also that it will help me progress better. I guess I need some negative experiences first and then check out the rules. Nowadays, I re-read them every now and then, but not so often.

This happens to me as well, that I don't understand why a discussion is deleted, but it is not my concern. Maybe there are some discussions which are deleted by mistake, and one of the respondents to this topic have said that they have got their discussion put back, after contacting the admin. I guess it is a very correct way to run this place, to be open to the member's request.

I have to admit that I don't read the FAQ's so frequently, but I do every now and then. I heard that those are not changing too often, so it is not so important to check in so often. I agree that we need to be careful, because too many warnings and deleted discussions can lead us to banning.

have to be very careful when it comes to these things. because such a ban and could disrupt our life and rhythm. as I am accustomed to have fun here and if not go some day will be very disappointed, so be very careful. so keep reading and be careful. nice day!

Agree with you 100%. A person who makes questions is interested in the answers, and when you find a chat partner, who is really interested to share and debate, it is very constructive and fun. Of course there are times when the discussions get a bit overheated and maybe they will be deleted, but if we learned something, it was worth it.

Yes, it is a good advice, and we, the people who are older members of mylot know this. But when I was a newbie, I haven't read them, I just wanted to jump in the middle of the things. Now I know that it was wrong, because it caused me a slower progress, lower reputation and that affected the earnings also. Now it is harder to build a better reputation, because it is easier to be careful at your reputation from the beginning, not only after you have established yourself in the middle. I have made a great progress since I started being more careful about the guidelines, but I still have lot to do.

Oh, each time I respond to a discussion with affiliate links, I get a message that my responds was deleted because of the discussion being deleted.

I think if posting affiliate links would be allowed, the whole mylot would be full of the links which lead to the same sites, over and over again. And that the majority of discussions would be only about other sites, and the responses would be meaningless. So this rules and guidelines keep the site as "clean" as possible.

I never respond to those discussions, because it is useless. Maybe I will try to PM the user who posted it, but I don't respond them, because it won't do any good, the discussion will be eventually deleted.

Yes, it happens to lose control a few times, and then you don't consider the rules. It is important to not make mistakes too many times and then things should be okay. Let me ask you, I am curious about the reason of memorizing the verses from the Bible. I am a Christian also, but I only know the stories from there, not word by word. I don't want to be disrespectful, but I heard that there are people who memorize the scripture from the Bible and I am curious about the reason.

Welcome back cbeeeeeeee!

@cbeee: Let me welcome back you and I feel honored that this is the first discussion you answer after returning here. Hope you will find the joy and excitement needed to be active here and that you will get the proper spiritual and material rewards for that. You were acting as a newbie just as I did and like the majority of the users did when they were newbies, I am sure of that. But after a while, when we will refer to the guidelines more and more, we feel that they are logical rules and it is normal to keep them, to make this community a strong one.

You are rephrasing what have you previously did, or you try to make more posts to have no changes in your earnings?

When I was a newbie, I made many mistakes also and had a few discussions deleted till now. Then, after having this email warnings that I did something wrong, I started reading the guidelines and FAQ's and now I make less more mistakes. I understand that the newbies want to jump in the middle of things and skip the reading, I was the same. But it is important to learn from the mistakes and reading the guidelines will help them a lot.

It is very simple, but the problem is that as newbies we didn't even bother to read the guidelines. If we would, our progress would have been smoother and faster.

I see. Judging after your responses number, you are not a really old member, so maybe it will be good to read the guidelines. There are not so many, so I will post the link here. http://www.mylot.com/o/guidelines.aspx Happy mylotting and happy earnings!

I still post links in some of my discussions, but not reflinks, and it was never a problem till now. Maybe the content which was beyond those links had something which was against the rules, but this is only a guess. Anyway, we are humans and we are allowed to mistake every now and then.

This is what I did also. When we make mistakes which have negative consequences, we get back to the rules, to make sure that we don't repeat those mistakes anymore.

Yes, it is important to follow the rules, even if it is a bit difficult, but as time passes by we get accustomed with them and then we don't think to them as rules, but as normal bounders which keep our discussions in reasonable limits.

I see. It happened to everybody to have responses deleted, because many times we don't even imagine that discussion will be deleted. It is important to be able to learn from this negative experiences, and so that we will have a better judgment next time when we see similar discussions.

Welcome, JulyKing! I am sure that it was your best decision to join this site, because you will be able to practice your English knowledge and, as time will pass, you will improve it, I am sure. I know that since I have joined mylot my mind works better, I can find the English words faster and the speed of typing has increased also. If you will be active, I am convinced that you will have this improvements also, you will make some friends also and you will learn many interesting stuff. And in addition, you will be paid for this. Happy mylotting!

You do that! And make sure that you will make your activity based on what you read there. Of course, you will still make some mistakes, but those mistakes will make you more familiar with the guidelines and rules.