Can we have some clarification on the "help me with my research" posts?

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Most are deleted, i know that but sometimes you let some stay because there are some good replies on the thread.

IMO it needs to be black and white - they are allowed or they aren't.

If you let them stay, what's to stop a journo coming on and wording their own threads in a way that appears they are "researching for a degree"?

what are the rules on this? why is it not allowed?

That's what i want to know Nailak.

Hello.

OK, so we don't allow people to post or start threads asking people to help them with their research on the main discussion boards.

If anything like that is reported to us (do please report 'em!), we will delete it and ask the poster to use our non-member/media requests topic.