One moderators are made automatically but level II mods are only added if I feel like we need more. Right now, all the ones that are there are active and doing a pretty good job, so we don't need any more. When we do, I'll look at level I mods who've been around for a while, read their advice columns and see who's a good example for people to turn to.

And there's only one level III mod: me.

hm. Well, since we still have less than 1000 members I didn't think there were enough people to warrant a chat room, but questions seem to be going fast lately so maybe it'd work. I could totally link to an IRC one like we've got on spacefem.

I don't really want to run it though, that's the thing. someone who's good with IRC drop me an e-mail.

Questions are ranked by our moderator team. We leave it up to individuals to rank questions. Questions are ranked as strictly as the majority wants to see them ranked.

You don't get rated on every single question. Annonymous users can't give ratings, and sometimes people just don't feel like it.

I'm not sure what you mean, so I don't think we have what you're talking about :) We're not published in print right now. If anyone has ideas about how something like that would work, I'd welcome input.

No, names are part of your column URL and can't change.

I've changed the question answer page so the "move to pool" box is unchecked by default. Hopefully this will help.

Please send an e-mail to admin@advicenators.com with your username and I'll look into restoring your account.

WHAT???

If the ratings apply to questions that were asked more than thirty days ago, they don't get counted.

We don't shut down advice columns, that can create database errors. If you really don't want access, just shut off e-mail alerts and stop coming to the site, that's all you can do.

Because all your questions were just about how beautiful "alicia" is, and I keep getting complaints about people talking about "alicia" because nobody knows who she is or what she's doing, just that she's opened quite a few accounts here lately. I'll restore your account, but please use it for something worthwhile.

It's possible. But a lot of people like it the way it is, because when visitors search for columnists "by category", they're really seeing the columnists who love that particular category. You can't list yourself everywhere, you have to choose, so they're getting the cream of the crop.

What's more likely is that we'll add a search feature that lets you pick a lot of different categories, and you'll be able to save that search as your own. It's all in the works.

What do you mean? We do show each and every columnist. You're not a columnist until you answer five questions... that's not really a difficult number to get to.

Left side, fourth section, "Your Advice Column".

Overall rating. Whenever a columnist answers one of your questions, you'll see a little "rate this answer" when viewing their response. You can click one of the numbers to contribute to their rating.

Since everyone has to register to ask public questions and most people fill out their profiles, age and gender information is already in the database. We store user ids and know who's asking each question.... I mean, if the site already knows who you are, there's no reason for us to have another drop box asking people their age again every time they ask a question.

We want to keep questions annonymous and not show who's asking what. Questioners can include whatever information they want to in their question, we won't require more.

Well, if I could program in answers, we wouldn't really need columnists, would we?

I have to make you one. We don't really need any right now, but if we did I'd review the top level 1 mods and see who I liked the best and promote them. I don't plan on promoting anyone any time soon, since I like to keep the numbers down as much as possible.

It's totally based on how many questions you answer, how long you've been a member, and your rating. Be patient.

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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