As much as we love all the hard-working people on advicenators, level II mods have a lot to do so we want to use people who do a lot of stuff. I want to keep the list of level II mods low, so there's no point in holding up a spot with someone who only visits once a week and answers a question. I mean, those people are great, we love them, but they aren't cut out for more moderator responsibilities.

To promote level II mods, I look at who's been rating questions first. I look at who on that list has been a member for a good month or two. I read through their advice and make sure they know english. I look at their questions to make sure they don't abuse the question system. I look at what they rate questions to make sure they understand what's a good question and what isn't.

Question rating is really important, we use it to pick featured questions and even delete questions off the site when they're that bad. You don't personally have to rate every question, but every question needs rated, I'm trying to make that clear to people.

I promote people for the good of the site, not because they personally deserve it.

I think I get it. So basically, you take the first person you can find who rates a lot of questions, doesn't ask stupid questions, doesn't use some childish vernacular or symbols, and then you make them a level 2 admin when another level 2 isn't on as much. At first I thought the quality of the advice played a role. And every question does get rated, so you need not worry about that. A little note, some of the weaker questions get a rating of 3 right off the bat, I usually have to give it a 1 just so it falls down to a 2.












I've seen that you've added chaos. That's one that I was speaking of when I previously said that there were some that have been around for awhile giving great advice.

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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