LoveToKnow Advice FAQ

About LoveToKnow Advice

LoveToKnow has long been committed to giving women trustworthy advice and information. In response to your feedback, we've expanded to offer more personal advice – answering your specific needs!

Use the simple form to request advice on any topic we cover on the site. Not only will our experts review and answer your request, but you can get advice from our knowledgeable and caring community. Want to get your friends and family involved? Post your request to your Facebook page so they can advise you, too!

Need technical assistance or help getting started? Visit our help page!

LoveToKnow Advice Frequently Asked Questions

General FAQ

What sets LTK Advice apart?

In one word - experts. When you ask for advice on LoveToKnow, you can get tips and answers from friends, other users, but also from an expert from our expert panel. This makes the advice you get reliable, like the kind you get from a trusted friend.

Who is editing your posts?

Our staff of community leaders may edit posts as needed to keep advice helpful for the entire community.

Why don't you see your post?

If our automated spam protection thinks your message might be spam, it will flag it for one of our community leaders to review. Rest assured, if it wasn't spam, it will soon be posted to the site. Of course, if your message was by some unlikely circumstance actually spammy... we've sent it to be scrapped for parts.

Account, Profile and Signature FAQs

Do you need an account to get or give advice?

Nope. You are welcome to login as a guest to post your advice or to request advice from others. We do ask for your email; however, we do not display it. We will only use it to send you information on your advice issues, if you've requested emails from us.

Alternately, you may use your existing Facebook account information to login. If you use your Facebook login, you can post your advice to your Facebook wall to share with your friends!

Signature and Tagline policy

Please don't use signatures or taglines or your post will be removed. Every post you make is already "signed" with your standard 'user card' that links directly back to your user page. On your user page, you can post links to other stuff you've worked on, talk about your interests or put anything else you'd like.

Can you talk about products/sites you're affiliated with here?

Be careful, because the community frowns on overt self-promotion and tends to vote it down and flag it as spam. Post good, relevant answers, and if some (but not all) happen to be about your product or website, so be it. However, you must disclose your affiliation in your answers.

Cred Points & Privileges FAQs

What is cred?

Your cred -- or credibility -- is a function of your participation on the site and how it is perceived by others. For example, if you give advice and someone votes it up as helpful, you get cred points. As your cred points increase, you gain more privileges for future participation on the site.

On what is your cred based?

Your cred is meant to be a reflection of your interactions on the site. Generally, you gain cred when you offer helpful advice that people vote up. You lose cred when people vote your advice down.

FAQs About Requesting Advice

What kind of advice can you request?

You can ask for any type of advice you'd LoveToKnow more about. However, not all questions are created equal. If you want to ensure that you get a great answer, make sure that your question:

• Has a right or probable answer - For example, 'How old is my dog?' is not as good of a question as, 'How can you tell when your dog is no longer a puppy?'
• Is on topic - Each channel for which there is advice will have a set of guidelines to help you know whether your request is on topic. Off topic requests will be moderated - either edited to make them on topic, moved or deleted.
• Is original - You can click on the 'browse advice requests' to see if the same advice has been requested before. You can also find requests that might pertain to your topic by clicking on a tag that you would use for your request. For example, if you want to know about the best mini-van for large families - you could click on the 'cars' tag.

What kind of advice is not okay to request?

You shouldn't request things that are:

• Off-topic – Please do not request advice that is not relevant to the topical area.
• Meaningless – Please ask for advice on issues that are pertinent and helpful to you, as well as relevant to others that share your interests. Asking why it has to rain today isn't adding value to the community or discussion at hand.
• Not answerable or hypothetical - We have real experts to give you practical advice to your issues. Rather than asking open-ended questions, stick to things that an expert could give you real advice on.
• Offensive - Civility is required at all times.

So, how do I pose a good request for advice?

Want to know how to get great advice? Make a great request (following these simple guidelines):

• Request advice that requires specific expertise or experience: Ideally, your issue cannot be easily addressed simply by googling. It requires experience and expertise for good advice. As it happens, we have those experts waiting to help!
• Give specifics; general requests are not as likely to elicit helpful advice.
• If you ask specifically what you'd like to know, you are more likely to get useful advice. Use the description field to clarify or give pertinent background information.
• Requests that are off-topic are likely to be flagged and deleted.