How many people feel that we should be allowed to post our questions without being deleted, once, twice, or a thousand times. There is another website that allows one to post as many times as you want. MODERATORS YOU REALLY SHOULD LIGHTEN UP.
Additional info, added Tuesday January 2 2007, 9:37 pm: Ok let me rephrase. I dont mean on Tuesday, January 2, 2007 you post Question A at 9:00pm and then delete and repost Question A at 9:30pm. What I mean is lets say three days have gone by and you havent gotten answers and the question you posted gets shuffled down to the bottom then you can delete it and post it again. Or lets say you realize that you are not going ot get answers in the general columns so you want to put into a few of the private columns. Or if you read Question A and say "Gee I really did not word Question A right let me delete it and reword it" This is what I mean.. Want to answer more questions in the Technology category? Maybe give some free advice about: Advicenators? iloveaar answered Wednesday January 3 2007, 3:16 am: i totally agree you should be allowed to post questions more than once =)
Brandi_S answered Tuesday January 2 2007, 10:33 pm: I came in on this at "additional info."
Now, how about this:
From the way you word the second part to your question, makes me think "hmmmm... I think I know this person from previous questions..."
If you are who I think you are (and I'm sure you are just that person) then you have read my advice before, and if it sunk in, you know EXACTLY who I am.
1. I have answered your questions many a time before.
2. They have been most often the same in one since or another. I want to help you but am tired of repeating myself. You don't seem to listen or really even care about what advice I, or any other columnist on this site give you. Why should we waste our time on your redundant questions? You just seem to ignore what we say the first time around, rate us all 5, then ask again. You are wasting our time, energy, and effort.
3. When you reword questions, you just change a few words around. We are not fools here. We are not so completely stupid that we didn't understand the question- we obviously chose to ignore it.
4. You ask questions that have so many names and conversations involved they hurt my eyes to look at.
5. When you want to post a question for everyone to answer, you can't decide to ask it privately. Why not just choose to ask it privately to begin with? It is against the rules to ask it both ways.
6. As for questions that get shuffled to the bottom, it won't go unnoticed forever. Especially if it has no answers. I know I have noticed them and answered them. I try to help you the best I can but feel as though you don't think enough of me to really read what I write. Then, you post the same question, or something eerily similar, as if I hadn't answered it yesterday. That offends me. I'm quite positive I'm not the only one who feels that way.
You need to realize that you are by no stretch of the means the only person that comes to this site seeking advice.
As to your question in my feedback:
"Can I post the same question more than once on a few private columns or do I have to just pick one columnist to ask"
No. To answer a private question, you are only allowed to ask one columnist any one question.
You may ask a few columnists a few different questions, but they cannot be the same question with different wording.
If you want to get several opinions and tidbits of advice, you must ask the pool.
You need to be sure you read the information in the link I am putting below. It will tell you all the rules about asking questions.
karenR answered Tuesday January 2 2007, 9:27 pm: Well this one doesn't. Feel free to use the other website for multiple question posting. Here we feel if they didn't answer the first time, they aren't going to answer if you post it again. [ karenR's advice column | Ask karenR A Question ]
xokristabelle answered Tuesday January 2 2007, 9:27 pm: Okay:
1) This is a stupid question and I sincerely hope it gets deleted.
2) Your question doesn't get deleted for no reason. Sex questions are inappropriate and some questions have already been asked tons of times. If you really care, find out why and fix your questions.
3) If you're really that interested, go to the other website. If you're talking about Yahoo Answers, well that's an example of how awful advicenators would be if there were no rules. Questions are inappropriate and overasked, people answer questions with "dunno" because they want more points, and most answers suck. So if you hate this website, don't let the door hit you on the way out.
EDIT: Okay, you are allowed to do that...unless it's a bad question. If I was Level III and i saw "how can i tell if a guy likes me?" or one of those "hannah's mom said bla bla to hannah her friends say bla bla is she overreacting?" twice i would delete it. rewording doesn't make a bad question good. [ xokristabelle's advice column | Ask xokristabelle A Question ]
Igotamonopoly answered Tuesday January 2 2007, 9:26 pm: What are you on?
Do you realize how detrimental that would be to this site? It would ceease to exist.
Who wants to see the same question 465486455378941 times?
Not us. We don't allow this for a reason; it is uber annoying. Have you ever had someone come up to you and ask you the same thing over and over?
Have you ever had someone come up to you and ask you the same thing over and over?
Have you ever had someone come up to you and ask you the same thing over and over?
Have you ever had someone come up to you and ask you the same thing over and over?
Have you ever had someone come up to you and ask you the same thing over and over?
You get my point.
The whole reason that we have Advicenators is so that we can help people help themselves-something that we can't do with duplicates of poorly spelled questions clogging the system.
Why waste your time waiting for us to approve your question when you could just search the site's previously asked questions (under Give Advice) and get the answers that you need faster?
We aren't uptight people. We don't do this to frustrate people. The general consensus of intelligent members on the site want it this way; and since it is the most logical, we do it this way.
If there is another website that allows you free posting, or SPAM, and you would rather post incessant streams of immature words intended to cause drama, then by all means, go there.
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