back and forth: "discussion you responded to was deleted"

My guess is that it may have been for one or both of two reasons: 1) It is quite a common and frequent question ('duplicate topic') 2) It was a "poll type" question (one which can be answered in just a few words). Anything which merely asks "What is your favourite ...", "If you could choose just one ..." or anything like that is liable to be a 'poll type' discussion. If you responded to the discussion, your User Rating should have decreased by one (and any earnings allocated to that response would be returned to the pool). It's possible that you also commented on someone else's response in that discussion (which may have earned the other User Rating 'point') but it's also possible that another discussion you were involved in was deleted. Because the violation was not yours (you simply responded to the discussion), your MyLot Reputation ('star' value, when you see it, which will be when you reach a User Rating of 100) is not affected at all. "Poll type" discussions are very often difficult to decide upon - even our Admin, GoAskAlice, sometimes has difficulty deciding but his decision is usually final. See the discussion - and his response - here: http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/2508999.aspx?p=1 You can see that is important for EVERYONE to understand the Guidelines, whether they start discussions or respond to them, because when posts are deleted EVERYONE has wasted their own (and possibly someone else's) time. Certain things we can only learn by experience, so it's best, especially at first, to regard Notifications with equinamity, to try to understand the reason and to see it as a 'learning curve'.

I've been here a week and have had many notifications of peoples posts being deleted. One of mine also got delteted because in my very last sentence because I forgot I wrote the word recipe and for that they deleted the whole discussion. I didn't write one I was actually asking a cooking question but they deleted it anyway :( There are some don'ts here on MyLot that are unusual to me so even though I read the terms and FAQ's it's easy to forget some of them. They don't seem to like poll questions if the person had re worded it then it might have been OK.

simple billutheguy You polled your audience by the title and a polling discussion just gets deleted.You needed to make a different title and explain how a super power would be for you then ask our take on your own feelings.all they had to do was read the question that took a poll of all readers, you cannot make a discussion from a poll, it has to have a way for u s to discuss an issue. reread the guidelines again. brom hatley

For me, its more like a milestone discussion rather then a poll type discussion. Since you aren't the creator of the post, Mylot didn't tell you the reason on the notification email.

Hi there billutheguy Yes it happened to me too and I posted a discussion about it like you did its in my profile and I was so glad I did too because I got such good responses from people which was very supportive. I know it sometimes makes you wonder but lossing a few discussions is a fact of life here. I'm just glad it happens even though it can be painful because it just goes to show people care here and the site is maintained well. Good for everyone it is too. Hang in there, things will only get better.

Hi billutheguy, I have had a response of mine because the discussion was deleted..I try to pick and chose what post i respond to but its not always that it going to go through without deletion. When its deleted I just keep going on... I personally am not going to try to second guest as to why... but thats just me...I know a lot of people want to know all the details as to why...

"if you granted a super power" itought itt was about poll, and it was not alowed in my lot, and your reputation will deleted that come for that source, even your earning from this will get deleted too.