Discussions violating the discussion rules that are not deleted- is this fair?

Many people also think that sometimes their posst are deleted for no reasons, without the notification of mylot. Some people have followed the mylot posting guidelines, but they have their discussions deleted,on the other hand, some people seems to have violated the rules,but they are still here, they may had post some meaningless discussion,even worse, they may have 20 discussions like that in one day which members cannot actually reply to due to the lack of depth of the discussion. Members can only answer yes or no in these discussions. May be mylot staff do not have enough time to keep track with the activities of 85000 members, and they just have a random check on the discussions, that is why not all the discussions are checked properly.

This may look unfair for us but I think they are deleting topics which has been discussed already. I guess it's pointless to keep the same topic here because it may end up recieving the same responses from those people who posted already on the other one. So if you are going to start a discussion here in myLot maybe it's better to start a new topic which are not yet discussed in here. At least you will be sure that it will not be deleted. Right now, I can hardly make a new topic here in myLot because almost all of the topics I want to start has been taken already, so I decided to post responses instead.

I've come across a small problem myself. Not exactly the way you state though. Last week I was trying to personalize my profile page and run into a problem when I couldn't change the color for the list of discussions. My background was darker and it was impossible to read the blue headings. I was able to change everything but that, so I decided to post a discussion in hopes that any mylotter would have a solution. I got an answer for that discussion and then next day it was gone, just like that. I couldn't understand it because I was almost sure that I hadn't violated any mylot rules so I send a message explaining the situation asking what happened and if I had violated any rules. I"m afraid the answer didn't explain much. The answer from myLot just told me that they didn't know why or when my discussion would have been deleted, although it added that they preferred that I did not start a discussion asking for help and ask myLot instead. Not that they said that they "preffered I didn't ask a help question" it doesn't necessarily mean that it is against the rules or else they would have said so straight out. Regardless the discussion disappeared but I still see many other discussions asking or help with something in mylot that were deleted. I really don't know in which way my discussion could lead to someone reporting it as violating any myLot rules, and even myLot told me that didn't know why or when it was deleted. Strange huh?

This frustrates me too. I don't understand how they decide these things either but I do think it probably has something to do with popularity. If a discussion is getting a lot of attention, it''s good for the site regardless of content. If no one is paying attention to it, it's pointless so they get rid of it. Another thing I have a problem with is something that I'm not sure is technically against the rules but lacks common courtesy at least. One particular user floods an interest with all sorts of random questions and tags each one the exact same way. They have been doing this all week. I've reported it several times but apparently mylot doesn't view it as a violation so they are still here doing it. And when I say "flooding", I mean one night there were 11 pages under this interest from the same person. All of the questions are simple and could easily be looked up. I thought there was a rule against that but I guess not. This user has a 5 star so I guess it's not bothering everyone but I've watched them go from 300 to over 900 in a week. It's just annoying that this person is getting paid for that kind of thing while so many of us are working harder to have actual discussions.

I think i've seen a few disscussions like that but I noticed that there were not to many responses to them.

No I don't think that is fair, But I don't think mylot keeps one up just because it has lots of responses. More likely, someone gave a negative to the one that was deleted or reported it so it was brought to their attention. The other one flew under the radar somehow and either no oone reported it, or mylot never came across it. So I dont think it would be fair if they did it that way. But I don't believe that's how they do it, it seems like luck of the draw which posts get removed and which go un noticed.

With over 85000 members it would be very difficult for Mylot to follow each and every discussion. The examples that you cited are indeed not quality discussions. I have reported other discussions to Mylot and asked the same question. They told me to report any discussion that violates the rules. I don't think the number of responses has any bearing on whether a discussion is removed or not. I have seen discussiones with huge numbers of responses removed and some with very few. It has surprised me at times of what was removed and what stayed.

I guess you are right. That is unfair. I have seen some discussion that violated the rules but haven't deleted I don't know if its because it has alot of number of response or mylot just overlooked it. But in fairness I can only see this kind of situation very rare.

No, it isn't fair for one to be deleted and not the other but I guess that it's just that Mylot haven't gotten around to the second one yet, or maybe one was reported and not the other. I'm sure it will be deleted eventually and no, the number of responses doesn't make a difference except all of those members who posted responses will lose their points because they answered a discussion which broke the guidelines. I hope that's clear enough for you. Brightest Blessings.

These posts will not get deleted if we only try to stare at it, we should report them. Because it is our duty to reprimand all those who do not follow simple guidelines, if they are not deleted then I am sure they do not earn from it also. Just avoid those types of discussions, as it is not helpful to this site. Post only those we think would contribute to this site, because mylot only honors to their members who post discussions with good quality.

Yes it is not fair. I have seen many discussions that violate rules, reported them but have had myLot done nothing about them. Yet I have seen good discussions I have replied to, not breaking any rules, yet deleted for no reasons. Welcome to myLot.