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What qualifies someone to give advice?
What qualifies someone to give advice on this site?
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You can be one on here, if you have a good ear, or good with giving advice, you can sign to run your very own advice column on this site.
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On this site, I believe that most people give advice based on their knowledge and experience on a subject matter. For example, I have experienced a death in the family so I might be able to give someone advice on how to cope. I may not be an expert, but perhaps my experience will help them. Or, if I am knowledgeable on a certain topic, I can give others my input. If say I knew quite a bit on guitars and someone asked me the best way to replace the strings, I could give them a handy trick I learned. The important thing to remember is to try your best to see both sides of a situation and to be thoughtful and kind.
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Well...I think anyone can be qualified to give advice whether it be on a website and IRL, however there should be some exceptions.
One should not give medical advice or psychological advise unless they are thoroughly educated in those areas. One should be aware that consequences may ensue if such advice is applied. But if they can relate to a medical and/or psychological problem, then that would be quite helpful.
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I'd say the main qualifications for giving advice on this site are life experience and a drive to help others.
Life experience doesn't mean that you have to be old and wise to give advice... everyone has their own unique experiences to share no matter how old they are or how easy/hard their life has been. We all go through our ups and downs, and this site is a great place to put that experience to good use.
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Anyone can give advice. Personally,I only give advice on subjects I'm familiar with because of personal experience with myself,or friends,etc. Some of those subjects are:sexuality,depression,family problems,friendship problems,etc. I feel that people should only give advice on subjects that they are familiar with.
Hope I helped
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There really are no specific qualifications. However, I believe that the more life experience in certain areas and/or education of specific areas are a good start to giving good advice. Also, I believe that a person who gives GOOD advice allows the one who is asking the questions, to figure out the answers on their own. I do not believe in telling people what to do, then the blame game gets played only too often. Other than that, I hope this helped :).
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A willingness to help.
There isn't much you have to do, but sign up and start answering. There is no test and no requirements to met in order to get started.
Having said that, there are thing you can do that disqualify you. The site is moderated. If a columnist behaves badly, and insults people or gives them advice that would be harmful or illegal, then they are removed. Questioners too can be removed if they are predatory or cruel to others.
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I personally would say the qualifications lie in 3 key factors: Intention, experience and knowledge.
Of course there is "good" advice and "bad" advice. This is where intention comes into play, there are people who give advice while not always having the best intention in mind. I would hope that most people on this site reply with good intention and for the best helpful outcome for the person in need of advice. Because though we do get "trolls" on this site and questions that might not seem serious or real scenarios we should still always take them seriously; just to bare in mind that what we say can impact/affect someone's life.
Personal experience comes into play in everyday life, it can be something as simple as not recommending the soup at a certain restaurant because you have had it before and it isn't all that great, to sharing a very personal experience that is similar to someone else's and helping them through a rough patch in their life; by sharing the good and bad things that have happened. The "mirror" effect, using your personal experience to mirror someone else's so they don't commit the same mistake as you or at the very least they can have some possible foresight.
And of course knowledge is a very important part of qualifying to give advice, getting your facts straight! Researching topics or already having the information that is concrete based on fact and scientific evidence is very helpful. I personally take it upon myself to briefly search information on a certain subject that someone might need information on or advice on and I also include links...because I enjoy learning and if I don't have any knowledge on it beforehand then I will for the next time around; I also enjoy reading a lot so I do read a lot about everything I can that peaks my interest and anything I think will come in handy. As they say knowledge is power!
It's just a sense of humanity, having compassion, sympathy, combined with righteous indignation.
So those are my two cents on this topic.
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What qualifies someone?
Having a listening ear for one,and having discernment for one thing.
Personally for me,Im unsure if Im even doing a good job,but I remeber that I have many expiriences,and things in life that Ive learned from that helps me,help others
Being wise,and of course being smart,and also remebering that watever advice you give,you are impacting someones life!
Remeber that!
Be Blessed!
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You set up an account. You try to help people out. Sadly, there isn't an idiot filter for the people giving advice, but I haven't seen anyone on here yet who didn't know what they were talking about. (:
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You need to care about people you don't know enough to put yourself in their shoes sometimes. You also need to be able to give honesty (even when it's not nice). You can't deprese easy. (so you are not weighed down by other people's problems). You also need an email address. That's it! :)
P.S. I forgot to say that you need some real life experience. Happy helping.
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Absolutely nothing. You can check feedback ratings, but that is not a direct correlation to anything. All you can really do is check previous answers and see if it sounds like that person knows what the hell they're talking about. Sometimes it's like the blind being led by the blind and stupid.
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