Hi there,

It isn't this particular question. It is his history. We have been cleaning up after him for years now, and that time has passed.

You see, Matt spends his time here deliberately fishing for 1 ratings.

He typically words things in the most caustic manner possible to evoke an angry response, then comes to us for more attention.

It wasn't always this way. He was very helpful once upon a time. A real credit to the site and someone everyone could be proud to call an advisor.

That has been almost two years ago.

You have NO idea what he and his friend have put the administration of this site through, none at all.

Trust me, this isn't vindictive, it is our last effort to get him to shape up before he is removed from the site forever.

And he knows it. It seems out of character for him to have other people intercede... oh, no wait. We have danced this dance before with another couple of young ladies. Nevermind.

I am sorry about that, but this is something that was created by years of him playing the system for his own means. You really shouldn't put yourself in the middle of this.

When his writing style is no longer caustic, he will be off probation. It will be months before he is trusted again to the point where the mods don't have to watch his column constantly.

If you need to know more about his history on this site, you should ask him. Some of it is fairly embarrassing, and is up to him if he wants to share it or not.

We don't want to humiliate him, or embarrass him in any way... we simply want him to shape up or ship out. It really is that simple.

And before you go thinking that he only picks on stupid people... Be advised. I have seen his first column here, now deleted, and he was once very much like the people he now tries to belittle and humiliate.

He just recently had a fresh start here... we are all pulling for him to come around and save his tenure on this site from become an extinct entity.

Good luck,

DN.

Hello there,

It would help if you provided a link to the question(s) and told me what your accout was.

Without some of that information I have nothing to go on.

Please advise.

Hello there,

It would help if you provided a link to the question(s) and told me what your accout was.

Without some of that information I have nothing to go on.

Please advise.

It can typically take three days or so until someone has time to sit down and take care of it.

Trust me, at this point, nobody wants you on this site, and your column is the first to go.

There is some work involved in removing a column. It will be done as soon as I can manage it.

I was also hoping you would change your mind, once you had a chance to think about what you had done.

If you can find a columnist with a publicly listed e-mail, you may e-mail them your question.

Why you would bother, is a mystery to me considering that except to site admins, your questions are anonymous.

Welcome to the site.

Hi Spacefem,

I appreciate your note here. Since I pay little attention to the forums unless one of the L2s tells me something needs my attention, that probably isn't the best way to get my attention on something.

For general discussion I am glad you use the forum. After all, that is what it is there for. :-)

If it is just general attention you want, then the forum is the right place. If it my attention you want, my e-mail, phone number, Skype or lastly this box are the best ways to get that.

There are definitely disconnects between the to-do list and what gets worked on. I have two to-do lists, one which has always been public, and another which is kept private for security reasons.

Here is the public one:

http://www.advicenators.com/todo/ToDOlist.html

... quite a number of things on there are done, but not marked off yet. I always tell myself I will spend a day going through and tagging them, but it never seems to come to that day.

These days, whatever gets worked on is whatever I can manage. There is a lot going on on this side of the keyboard. More than I care to explain here.

Owning and running advicenators may have been more expensive than I anticipated, and I am not talking about money.

"So yup, that's why I don't take my suggestions to you privately. I did this one though! Better?"

... yes, except I dont' see a suggestion in there anywhere. ;-)

Please ask this question again, and include a link to the question.

Thank you.

Hello there,

The user was banned for posting a spammy chain letter as question and asking people to post it everywhere.

It was only a 1 hour ban since I thought her intentions were noble.

I will go fix that 1 hour ban right now. Some people don't appreciate it when you do them a favor.

Great Job!

How did you discover the appropriate replacement variable?

I have it setup now where they both work, to avoid breaking any existing templates.

Thanks!

Fixed.

Thank you!

And she gives me a hard time about my spelling. ;-)

Hello there,

I am having a hard time understanding you, but I think what you are saying is that you selected your favorite categories, but they don't show up on your column? Also that you only see one answer on your column?

Well, I see all 7 of your answers, so just reloard the page.

Also, you have your font colors screwed up so that the writing for the favorite categories is the same color as the background.

Change your colors and they will be visible.

Good luck!

How about I go you one better?

Have a look.

Sufficient?

Hello again,

I see what happened. Apparently the system doesn't update times correctly if you had a previous paid account and it lapsed.

I will look into that. In the mean time, your situation is fixed.

I appreciate your patience while a ran down this bug.

Hello there,

Your account was upgraded right after you promised no more off-site linking from your answers.

What makes you think you aren't upgraded?

Thank you for supporting the site.

Hi theymos,

That isn't really a bug. You just happened to answer a question that was deleted before your answer was posted.

This girl posted what seemed like every homework question she had, all in a row. Must have been 20!

The one you answered just happened to appear on the site before I deleted it.

Thanks for reporting this anyway.

Make sure to run anti-spyware and anti-virus on your computer at all times.

There was a situation where someone posted something with a hidden code in it, which tried to manipulate your web browser.

That has been taken care of. It was nothing we could control.

Hi there,

You have multiple questions, so you will have to tell me which one. Providing a link, or the question number is the best way.

Thank you.

Hi there,

The link on the left that says: Paid accounts.

If you have an exceptionally good reason, I may change it for free.

Take care.

Hello there,

I would like some more details on this, if you can provide them. Perhaps an example question or two, and the exact page it appears on, (please copy the URL from the location bar) as well as the time this happened to you (including your timezone.)

I can see how you could see questions from a couple months ago, since I currently have the "Be the first..." feature going back 60 days, but as to YEARS ago, I can't see how that could be.

Any further help you can provide would be appreciated.

Thank you!

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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