Thanks for your help! Right now we have 14 level II/III moderators, and I don't plan on adding any more than that. There are always some who drop out but I don't promote people based on who deserves it, I promote based on who the site needs. Stick around, I know it can be boring just being a level I but what you do here really is important.

It was a site error that started last night. It should be fine now.

If it hasn't been approved after three hours, it gets automatically posted. I don't think that's much of a delay at all.

All columnists have the option of putting different contact information in their profiles (like AIM usernames and e-mail addresses) but if they chose not to do that, you're out of luck. We don't provide other means of communication because we want this to be an advice column site, not just a forum you can send notes back and forth with.

We don't really want people posting anything that's considered "xxx"... this is not an over 18 site, it's an over 13 site, and adding a new category would just make people want to lie about their ages to see it. If anything on this site is too obscene for a 14-year old, we try to remove it.

There could be. I've thought about it before. There could also be a little icon by your name in the "columnists" list, which would really tell the truth, because technically someone could steal the little icon and put it in their profile. Basically, I'm open to suggestions.

We'll promote you, but first you have to be an L1 and rate some questions so you show up on the "candidate" list. Keep in mind that we want our moderators to be pretty active so they can set a good example for other columnists, so if you don't think you have time to keep your column updated, you might decide being an L2 isn't really your bag. We'll still love you and totally understand, it happens all the time.

http://advicenators.com/faq.php?f=84

http://advicenators.com/faq.php?t=11

That's not our site, that's something else on your computer.

It depends... if you've never been banned before, the system won't care, you can moderate just like you always did. If you have been banned before by someone else, the system is going to be all sorts of confused. let me know if this happens.

oh, and go study!

I won't ban you. I can't vouch for my other level IIs though... if it's loud and annoying enough I let them do whatever they want.

because you type "javascript" or "embed" somewhere.

if you're using them, the system will automatically strip them out of your column, so you can't compromise our security system, don't worry.

We don't like counting ratings that are more than 30 days old, we like columnists to be able to work with a "clean slate" when it comes to ratings.

People can get your password if you use javascript and embed tags on your column, that's why we outlawed them. Most third party music sites require that you use those tags to play their music on your site, and our site disables those functions, so it's a little harder to play music. If you can find another way, knock yourself out. We think music is a really stupid thing to have on an advice column though, so we won't help you figure out how to get it.

You can't really "accidently" sign up, the whole process takes like five clicks through pages and a paypal password and a lot of other things. There's no way you can sign up and promise to pay, you have to pay when you sign up, so if you have no money there's no way to get a paid account or even start the process.

Spammers send thousands of paypal fraud e-mails every day in an attempt to get people's passwords. If you just got a general "thank you for your payment" that had nothing to do with advicenators, then trust me, it had nothing to do with advicenators. Forward it to me if you're not sure.

Our "official" thank-you e-mail subject has your username and says "[yourname]: Advicenators account upgraded". People can buy paid accounts for other members, so maybe that happened for you, but either way you have nothing to worry about.

http://advicenators.com/faq.php?f=93

http://advicenators.com/faq.php?f=37

In that case, you definitely aren't allowed to go ask it to individual columnists! If we deleted it the first time, it's either not meant for this site or it really needs to be re-worded and changed to be asking something real.

That's the number of people who've answered five questions. We actually have a little over 10,000 registered members... we're working on a stats page that everyone can view.

This advice column is for suggestions, comments, or error reporting about advicenators. If you'd like to suggest a new category, ask me a question. If you'd like to whine, bitch, or complain about advicenators, you may whine, bitch, or complain to me.

Three rules though:
1) Do not ask me for life advice. We have several thousand other members that do that.

2) Do not ask for help, or ask how to do something, or ask about
how something on the site works, unless you've read every word of our help pages and you're sure it's not addressed there.

3) Do not ask me to ban someone or investigate abuse. We have an entire abuse system set up for that.

If you disobey one of these rules, I'll delete your question.

Some guidelines about suggestions:
If you offer a suggestion that I find interesting, I might just ignore your question so it stays in my inbox as a reminder of something to do. Don't be upset that I don't answer you, and don't delete your questions (because then I'll forget!)

If you have three suggestions, please ask three separate questions, that way I can address each one individually. It's a real pain when people ask one question with like twenty different topics in it; I can't keep them straight.

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