Advicenators Frequently Asked Questions

Types of questions

Public questions
Public questions are asked to everyone on the site and are displayed on the "give advice" page. Only registered members can ask public questions. To ask a public question, click "get advice" and post away.

If you ask a public question, you get to rate the columnists who answer you. These ratings apply to their columnist rating.

Targeted or private questions
Targeted questions are asked to a single advice columnist. Only that columnist can answer the question, but anyone can read it. To ask a targeted question, find a columnist you like and click "get advice" on his or her column, or "ask ___ a question" from the columnist list pages.

If you ask a question to a single columnist, and then give him or her a rating based on that answer, the score doesn't count towards that columnist's rating. Feedback given can still show up on their "feedback" pages, but the rating doesn't count for anything.

QABEATD
QABEATD (or, "Questions Asked By Everyone And Their Dog") can only be posted by site administrators (level III) and can only be answered by moderators. The purpose of the QABEATDs is to help people out with the most common, frequent issues we get asked about as columnists. Generally speaking, if you ask a public question that's strikingly similar to a QABEATD, we won't post it on the site.