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About Advicenators
I started my advice column in 1998. It was part of my cheesy geocities homepage and I asked people
to e-mail me questions. To get them started and let them know what I was all about, I wrote some of the questions and
answers myself. Everything was good. I didn't get many questions but I didn't mind; I was happy
answering the ones I got and making up my own when I felt like I had advice for the world.
Time went on and my website moved to Spacefem.com. The site
had been around for a while, so it actually got noticed by some search engines. I got more
visitors, and a lot more questions, and soon I couldn't answer them all. More time went on, and I
couldn't even answer most of them. Plus, I didn't even like some of the questions I was getting,
and felt bad because I knew other people in the world wanted to have advice columns on the internet,
and I was wasting questions.
I thought of giving other people columns on my site. They were e-mailing me offering to
answer surplus questions. But then I got an idea: What if we all had advice columns, and they were
automated, and every question got answered, and everyone who wanted a column would have
questions?
So I started advicenators. I'd been hacking at the php forum on my site enough to know that learning PHP wouldn't kill me, so I made a website. I registered the domain on September 2, 2003 and opened the site on October 16, 2003.
Technical Information
Advicenators is hosted by Wired Hub because they rock.
Advicenators was written and designed by me, Spacefem, using PHP. I used the kwrite text editor for
Linux on the whole thing, because I like text editors that come with operating systems.
Terms Of Service
ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
Advicenators.com will provide the following services subject to these terms of service, which may be updated any time
without notice. You may view these terms at any time at http://advicenators.com/about.php. Your account may be
deleted if you do not comply.
DESCRIPTION OF SERVICE
Advicenators.com is a web-based service which hosts advice columns. Its users can ask advice-type questions to other
users or answer questions for their own columns. All content must reside at advicenators.com.
PRIVACY POLICY
This site collects information from its users for the purpose of both statistical analysis and service. This
information will never be sold to a third party. Certain pieces of information will be displayed on user advice column
pages. Users will be notified when submitting this information that it will be publicly displayed.
TERMS OF SERVICE
Advicenators.com is not responsible for any content posted by users, including questions, answers, profile information, or other messages. We do not promise accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of
any advice and are not responsible for contents. Views expressed in messages are the views of the author of the
message and are not necessarily the views of this website.
Users may not post any material which is knowingly false and or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful,
harassing, obscene, profane, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise violative of
any law. Users may not post any copyrighted material unless they themselves own the copyright. Users must be at least 13 years of age.
Any person submitting either a question, answer or FAQ entry agrees to grant the operators of this site and their successors the right to publish and/or re-publish the content provided by the user, in any manner or medium so long as the user's privacy is maintained.
Upon deletion of a person's account any questions and/or answers deemed worthy (by the site operators) of preservation for the benefit of others with similar issues, will be moved to a special account for orphaned questions and answers.
No identifying information will be knowingly maintained that would link the questioner or answerer of an archived question or answer to the question or answer being archived in the orphan account.
Users will maintain the right to publish, elsewhere, information they themselves have submitted here.
Any user who feels that the content of any part of this website is objectionable should contact us immediately. The
staff of advicenators.com may remove any message at any time, and will do so within a reasonable time frame if it is
determined that removal is necessary.
All users must have a valid e-mail address linked to their account at all time. You are legally responsible for the content you post on advicenators and should anyone wish to contact you for legal reasons, they must be able to do so. There are NO exceptions.
If any user badgers, bullies, uses inbox questions questions to harrass or in any other way abuses another user of the site, that user willingly and knowingly gives up ANY AND ALL expectation of privacy on this website. If the abuse is severe enough to merit the involvement of law enforcement, all possible identifying information belonging to the abuser will be handed over to the agency working the case.
The posting of excessive duplicate information is prohibited.
By agreeing to these terms you agree to indemnify and hold Advicenators, its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers,
agents, co-branders, partners, and employees, harmless from any claim or demand (including reasonable attorney
fees) made by any third party due to or arising out of your Content, your use of the Service, your connection to the
Service, your violation of the TOS, or your violation of any rights of another, whether you are a registered user or
not. Users are solely responsible for their actions when using Advicenators.com.
You may not resell or exploit any portion or service of this website.
Advicenators.com may terminate passwords, questions, answers, users, or any other content at any time and for any
reason. Advicenators may run advertisements of any type at any time without prior notice.
Posting links to commercial sites for the purpose of promoting sales is prohibited.
Special Thanks...
Okay... First I'd like to thank Turc for contributing some some awesome site graphics. Next I'd like to thank, um, my mom for always giving me good advice.
These are the people who beta-tested the site in the very beginning, they helped a LOT and totally rule:
SparklyStar
dolphinlover
Turc
zoe.
Gealach
chocolatenutbar
Valdis
Girlwithamansname
FernGully
eap03
Invisible_Kate
Contact
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