Advice columnists can chose to reject a question, in which case it becomes public or gets deleted, depending on which boxes you checked. If you think there's another error and your question didn't end up at the right place, let me know.

There'll be more questions as the site gets bigger... remember, we're still new. You can help us out by telling all your friends about your advice column and by asking questions... I mean, c'mon, what's with people complaining about not enough questions when you're all registered users who are welcome to ask for stuff?

As for bad advice, you'll just have to run around and give good advice to make up for it. I think sometimes people are stupid and do need to get a life, so that's not always bad advice. It's just blunt. right?

Hi Shay, you rule! Anyway, I intend to work on making more layout thingies for people, but for now I'd recommend a new user picture... the one you have now is like 350 pixels wide and it's stretching out the side column. People with small user pictures don't have the problem with the horizonal scroll thing. Eventually I may fix the site so you can have a wide picture like that, but for now I'd recommend that you find a smaller one.

Yes, advicenators needs some design changes... when I first made the site I was much more concerned about whether or not the code worked instead of how the site looked. We might try some new things over the next few months. I'm always happy to hear suggestions or comments on the design, so if you see something that's changed, let me know if you like it or not.

That's more for people with other web pages who want to link to advicenators. Your column already has links to the advicenators home page so that doesn't matter much, but if you have other websites and want to tell the world you have an advice column, you can use a code from our Link To Us page to do it.

Okay, well, no one's forcing you to come here.

I'm not terribly concerned with where everyone comes from... and enough people get mad about cookies that I'd just assume keep our number low. I am asking people who register where they heard of us... I think that's better because really, who cares where people came from if they don't register?

cookies for sale? I don't get it... they're super-easy to write, it's one line of code! Must investigate this... if someone is getting $5 for cookies, I should be in a new business ;)

Ewe, sorry, I kinda went on a question-deleting rampage tonight because there were a few really stupid ones. I mean, this is an advice site... asking questions about what Harrison Ford is wearing to the oscars or other celebrity-related things have nothing to do with advice. So I cleaned up a bit.

In the future I promise to pay more attention and not delete things that lots of people have answered.

Changed the message to present more info - it only displays that if you're logged in with a username and everything. Seriously! Try it again.

Oh, and I'm no OP girlie. I have sedgwick county plates and everything now now, TYVM.

Um... I have no idea. That is not a feature we've installed, that sounds like something your browser is automatically doing... my advice is to run AdAware or something to check for programs you might have installed that you don't know about. Currently, Advicenators is not linking to any search engines. We don't even have our own search up yet, that's how not into searches we are.

Because there was a bug in the pagination scripts. HA! It should be fixed now, I found the issue.

In other news... 6 pages?! Damn that's a lot of answers.

Username changes get weird because it changes the URL of your advice column, so if you've been promoting that or anything you might not want to change your name. When the site gets big, username changes probably won't be allowed at all just because it'll take too much work. But for now, I'd be happy to change it... just send me a confirmation e-mail (admin@advicenators.com) and I'll go in and change it, no problem.

I don't really see a reason for this, because if someone really wants to leave his/her name, they can just put it in the question box along with the question. I'll consider it though, if more people ask for it. It wouldn't be difficult.

Hey, requirements for featured user are the same as they've always been. Make sure you:


Have a picture of yourself on your column (you can do this on your settings page)
Have some bio information down (you can also do this on your settings page)
Have "yes" checked for the featured user option (you can do this on your settings page, too)
Have at answered at least 14 questions
Have updated your column in the last 24 hours


After that, who gets featured is totally random, I don't pick people every day or anything, a script does it I promise.

how right you are! it's done now.

You can't. If you could, it'd screw everything up because people who gave advice would have to change or delete theirs and that's not fair, so once a question is posted, only site administrators can change or delete it.

We are currently troubleshooting this issue. From now on, you can forward these e-mails to admin@advicenators.com and it might help us dig into the situation.

Your wish is my command! The random column feature is at http://advicenators.com/randomc.php.

Infinity times. Every night when the script looks at who can be it (official columnists with a picture who've updated in the last 24 hours) it picks a person at random, and doesn't care if you've been featured before. But it's not very likely that it'll happen to you often. Last night, for instance, there were 35 "candidates", which is about average, so chances are you'll only be featured once a month or so... less as the site gets bigger.

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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