How many discussions of you have been deleted so far?

The first thing to do is to make sure that you completely understand the Guidelines: http://www.mylot.com/o/guidelines.aspx You should read them frequently until you do. In your case, it may be especially important to understand what is meant by a "poll type" question. GoAskAlice has put a more complete description on his profile here: http://www.mylot.com/GoAskAlice There were already scores of discussions about the problems with MyLot not updating and the FAQs specifically tell us not to post discussions about such things but to contact Admin if we seem to have a problem. You can either use the 'Contact' link at the bottom of the page (and choose 'Other' from the dropdown) or you can send a PM to GoAskAlice (he doesn't need to be on your Friends list for you to do this). Nearly everyone here has either had one of their discussions deleted or has posted a response in a discussion which was deleted. It is one of those things which is liable to happen from time to time. It does NOT affect your MyLot Reputation or your earnings (apart from the fact that cents may be deducted when posts are deleted) but, if you repeatedly ignore the Guidelines and Admin perceives that you don't appear to be learning from the Notifications that you receive about your discussions being removed, then you WILL be liable to be banned without warning. This does not happen, though, to people who generally observe the rules here!

It happens from time to time and since I don't have repeated patterns of them I don't really get upset. I can understand when you say that they took a bit of work to create, however if they fall against what the guidelines say we can not do then sadly they do get deleted. We learn from mistakes and continue participating, for me it really is not a great loss as it is not money I have yet received so I don't find the deductions to be of great loss. What I found helpful is that anytime there were deletions, I would open the email in one tab and the guidelines in another, that way I can distinguish where my error was. I think with your two topics; one was a repeat of the several that were already created, so important to search the search bar to check before we do start topics, as well as remember that if something is of concern with myLot that we do not start topics and contact Admin directly. With the other one it appears it could be a duplicate as well, and or a poll type of discussion. I would suggest you check the email notification that way you can re-phrase the topics to not gear towards breaking the guidelines. But don't worry Six, you are not alone and we all learn eventually. Good luck and asking how many in this discussion also appears to me as if it can be perceived as a survey/poll type discussion. At any rate you may get our responses via email and find them helpful.

I have lost two or three to deletion. I hope that we all can learn from this and remember that we need to fashion our discussion topics as just that- discussions and not polling questions. If we check back over it before we post I think we can save alot of them. Discussions are formed differently than a plain polling question. Keep our eye on the topic.

After being at mylot for a while I have found out that you just have to move on after a post being deleted. When I was a newbie, I had more posts deleted. Now mostly it is because I answer someone´s post that gets deleted. I take my risks with newbies, telling them to read mylot´s rules.

Luckily, I never got my discussions deleted. It because I only made 2 discussions up to now . Maybe if I make a lot of discussion, there's a bigger chance of one or two of my discussions being deleted. It is a little bit hard to fully implement the guidelines, though. Sometimes, we may missed one thing or two.. I got MUCH of my responses deleted because the discussions it was under being deleted. If I can fully understand and implement the guidelines, then I wouldn't give a response on a discussion that will deleted later. But I have to say, the more my responses getting deleted, the more I am being aware with myLot guidelines.. Experience is the best teacher, though.. :)

this is my first time! i had one discussion deleted. a discussion about my complains of having no earnings in mylot which i posted last week. i feel bad about it because my ranking moved down too. this is so sad. next time that i would write a discussion i should see to it first that my discussion have followed the guideline. this is a lesson we really have to keep in mind always when writing in mylot.

I don't post many so I haven't been deleted. I think that's odd that your posts are being deleted. I don't know how to stop that.

So, far, only one of my discussions have been deleted, and it was one where I asked which group is better, Beatles or Rolling Stones, maybe they found it too much "confrontive" or something like that, I respect that position but I dont think so. I have noticed that if the discussion is kind of controversial they tend to delete it.

I think that I might have had a couple deleted at the very beginning. Stupid rookie mistakes, they tend to really occur a lot of the time when you're new and don't have the guidelines completely burned to memory as of yet. Oh well, live and learn. They got deleted, I learned from my mistakes, everything is really going to turn out mostly for the best. It has been ages since I have had a discussion deleted and I am thankful for that. I think that the fact that I rarely post any discussions on an impulse without thinking about them really helps but that is not really a sure fire thing to say the very least. Still it has been a while and I am thankful for that. Still stupid rookie mistakes at the beginning tainting my record. I don't remember what discussions were deleted however, it was a long time ago.

When I just started in mylot, the deletion of my new discussions were very often. After going through those suffering period, it is very hard for my new discussions to be deleted again. In my advise, we should seriously treat our deleted discussions for not repeating again. This is to prevent our account from being suspended or deleted later. When a discussion was deleted, for sure this discussion was violating the rules of mylot. For instance, a repeated topic of a discussion will definitely be deleted. Before starting any new discussion, we shall search through the discussion column to ensure no one started the same topic earlier.

I have seen quite a few being deleted by mylot, most of the mare concerning notifications from mylot. I don't know why are they being deleted, but i do feel for the starters of them. They are merely asking and sharing and i don't think it's a violation of mylot guidelines right? It's been months since i last started any so i'm spared from the deleting.

I have been here for two and half months. I never paid attention the discussion that got deleted, it was because I was too excited and spirit to participate on myLot. I made a lot of discussion and comment every day, but I don't know how many discussions were deleted. I am aware of the discussion by reading carefully and understandably, so to make sure my comments are not deleted as well. Perhaps, there might be a lot of discussion are deleted of mine here on myLot. Thank You

I think they delete some discussions that are of no harm at all. But I guess they are the monitors and what they want is what they will get. Best Wishes!

I have some dleted discussions the reasins they give is that some are poll or gambling discussions, some are repeated because somebody made the same discussion before me. But what I do now is to search if somebody did the same discussion before me, and try to write my ideas in a better way that they don't look like gambling.

I cannot give you the exact figure but as far as my memory is concerned 2 or 3 discussions started by me have probably been deleted. But a good number of my responses to topics started by others have been deleted. Here also I am helpless to provide you with the exact figure.

I never had any discussion deleted. I didn't started too many but none of them has been deleted so far. I think it is better to check for repeated discussions before starting a new one. The last week many discussions were deleted due to duplicated topics. Why was your discussion deleted? Do you know the answer? I mean, did the notification said what was the reason of deletion?

So far, none of my started discussion has been deleted yet. Well, I'm not really into starting discussion though I have few. I'm more on responding.

No, I have not have any of my discussions deleted so far, but I've had my comment deleted once cause I violated the guidelines as I was still new that time.

For what I remember, I never had a discussion deleted. But, of course, I don't create many discussions. I guess it's pretty boring when you have one discussion deleted, because usually you spend some time to create the discussion and the topic is good.

one of my discussion was deleted.... I think that was when I posted a link....hahahah