Des autres or d'autres?

Haha cheers for the neg Timeslikethese.

You know, I would say sorry for negging you in the first place, because the advice you could give may well be helpful, but I negged you because from what I can gather, you're a bit of an arrogant snob who belittles people who ask for advice or who have the "wrong" opinion.

i.e "I fail to see the point of this so called 'golden rule' whatever your teacher may or may not know, Is she french? If not, it makes no odds. Had she graduated from bangor she probably knows less than I do now"

Also, it is strange how you write:

"As a previous A grade A level student now going in for a first class degree, who was accepted by cambridge (yes we can all be big and clever), i'm telling you that it's crappy advice to give or fall back on."

And yet write:

"Learn that other opinions exist."

Hmmm, it appears that other opinions do exist, but only yours are right.
Also the reciprocal neg rep was very mature, well done old chap

Always confused me this has, and it's often corrected in my essays. From what little I know i'll try and shed some light on what you've asked.

In terms of the "des autres" and "d'autres" you would you use the "d'autres" in construction which usually would take "de" e.g. "beacoup de"; other construction which don't have a set "de" in them, can take "des".

De l' is used, I think, in stuff that can be counted and when used, translates as "some" e.g. "de l'alcool". D' is used in abstract nouns e.g. "D'importance"

This is probably wrong lol, but i'm sure you'll get more sound advice.

Not sure whether your rule is right or not, but that's a poor example because beaucoup will never be followed by "des" regardless.