If you make fun of every question, and it annoys people, we'll seriously consider it.

yes.

No, they can't see it. We do keep track of who asks what questions, just in case someone is abusing the system we can ban them, but only site administrators have access to this information and we're not going to hunt you down just for fun or anything.

Yes, a search tool is needed right now, we're working on it. For now, we hope that the categories will help.

I've given more people the power to delete questions, so hopefully this sort of thing won't happen too often. thanks!

No, you can edit away. E-mails just get sent out when you first answer the question, and that's only if the person has their profile set to e-mail them when they get an answer.

There aren't any columnists with more than three favorite categories, it's impossible. Seriously! If you see one, let me know, I'm just as curious about how they did it as you are.

I'll answer but you might not like it too much :)

1) we had someone going insane and spamming us so we deleted their questions without telling anyone (but them). that would account for your inbox fluke. shouldn't happen too often.

2) there is not yet a system in place to respond to feedback.

3) You can't delete questions, because that would delete them off people's advice columns. Do you think there's just too many questions showing on the "your questions" page, is that the deal?

Nope, no time lag. As soon as you post a question it should show on the pages. The only questions we've been deleting lately were duplicates of questions already asked. You should be able to see all your questions by clicking the "Your Questions" link on the side there.

Our terms of service forbid content that is obscene or profane. Basically, if you're being graphic for educational reasons that's fine. If you're being graphic for shock value there might be a problem. Since it's your advice column and we want people to express themselves, we probably won't do anything unless people are really offended.

just drop me an e-mail ( admin@advicenators.com ) and I can change it for you. It'll mess with the URL for your advice column but it can be done.

Hopefully people will be rating the advice they get from different people, so as we get lots of rated advice we'll make that information available and people can "weed out" the less-than-talented columnists. If you want to help out, make sure you're asking questions, the ratings you give to people will be a good way to voice your opinion.

We want it to be easy to be an advice columnist and just have to keep hoping that at least some of the advice will be good, that's the thing.

We had to delete some questions due to terms of service violations yesterday, and there's not currently a way to notify people of this. I'm guessing that's what those questions were. We're still having problems with people getting e-mails about questions with URLs that don't even include the question ID but these are valid URLs so I don't think that was the problem.

This shouldn't happen very often. We're working on a way to correct it.

Hopefully if you give good advice, you won't get many rude comments. But if you feel like someone is out to get you and is leaving really rude things, you can let us know. Only registered users can leave feedback and you'd have to answer their questions to give them the right to leave it. Also, even though all feedback and questions are anonymous, we store user numbers and can trace back who said what if something is really bad. We'll see how well that works for a while.

Just added it today... you weren't the only person who suggested it but I held off for a while because it was a big thing to add. Anyway it's here now so feedback away!

Well, the whole site is without charge so I'm going to assume you're complaining that we don't let kids on this site. This is because federal COPPA laws restrict collecting contact information from children under 13 without parental consent. Since this website run by an American and hosted by an American company, we are required to comply with these guidelines.

I'm really sorry about this. What do you mean, "can't get into" the site? Are you able to ask a question? There are many parts of the site... what sort of errors are you getting? Is it just logging you out all the time or what?

I think we'll let the sexual health and parenthood topics hold those for now, but it's a good suggestion. I'll keep it in mind.

Writing... interesting! I added it as a topic here: http://www.advicenators.com/qview.php?t=7

... we'll see how it goes.

(Note: Writing category removed due to massive posting of bad poetry.)

I like it. Category added here. I'm still not sure "addictions" is the best name for it but I couldn't think about anything else.

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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