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questions come on so late
So I was wondering, when you ask a question on here, why does it just show up on the advicenators homepage like 3-4 days later? Im sure this question will come up in like 4 days too. (its Jan 2)
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Matt & Peeps are both correct in what they have said.
Being a level 2 moderator (one of the few people who can approve questions), I know that I approve anywhere from 0-30 questions per day. Sometimes I come to the site and either no questions have been asked (doubt it) or another administrator has already approved them. There are tons of questions asked each day, and us admins will approve just about all of them. However, sometimes it feels as though more people are asking questions than answering.
The questions on the side of the website will remain there until they receive 2 answers. Once those questions receive 2 answers, new questions will show up. This is not a manual thing that admins can change. Sometimes those questions will get a great, amazing, perfect answer, but until they get a 2nd one, they won't disappear (which can get annoying).
Anyway, I just wanted to clear it up. While there are very few active administrators, we do get majority if not all of the questions approved daily (granted the few hours where we're asleep, but we're mostly in different time zones, so it's not too bad), we just don't have enough people answering questions.
So, as Peeps already gave DN's response - answer, answer, answer. The more questions that are given plenty of answers, the more questions that can be shown.
Also, if you're a level 1 moderator, rate questions! If a question is bad and gets enough 1 ratings, it's deleted. There are plenty of questions we approve with a 1 rating that they can be deleted if some more moderators agree with us and do their jobs as well.
If you have any other site related questions, feel free to ask any of us active administrators. :)
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Although Matt is partially right, the truth of the matter (from what I understand DangerNerd has said in the Moderator Forum) is that, simply put, people are not answering questions fast enough so they stay in the section that shows longer--and only a certain amount of questions can show at a time.
Someone asked (in the moderator forum):
"how is it decided which questions are shown on the right table?------------>
I mean, it used to be anytime I asked a question, it was over there, but lately I haven't gotten any answers, I suppose because they aren't showing up over there anymore?
Dangit, when I start asking questions that really matter, they don't get answered :/ how does this all work?"
DangerNerd answered:
"The short version is: If you want your questions displayed sooner, answer some existing questions.
As for your other question: Unanswered questions stay there until they get an answer, or a given number of days elapse. This number varies based on site conditions. It can be from three days to three weeks depending on the site load at the moment."
Sometimes it seems to take a few days before the question is shown to the public. The process slows down at times because there are tons of questions that are waiting for answers--that nobody is actually answering properly. If the side bar is never answered (as I've noticed some questions go days, even a week or better at times, unanswered) then there isn't "space" to show the newer questions.
If all of the questions--new and old--that weren't answered showed up immediately, I'm sure the side column would be HUGE, as there are lots of columnists on Advicenators.
So, take some time and research the answers to the questions you don't know and ANSWER THEM so yours shows up. Sometimes it's pretty interesting when you go searching the internet for something you would have NEVER thought to ask (or something you really don't even care about but you want to give a good answer anyway).
Hope that answers your question thoroughly enough! If you have any more questions please feel free to ask me! :)
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The only people that can approve questions are L2s and above. If you look at the last time some of them have updated, you'll notice that a majority come to the site rarely or not at all. This leaves all the questions that need approval to 3 or 4 people, who obviously are not constantly on the site. This results in some backup.
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well it's only january third, but it is eleven pm.
you do know that miillliions of questions are asked so its hard to get thousands all posted in one day.
hope that helped(:
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Probably because of so many people asking questions.
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