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Whenever you receive a knowledge rating of 8 or higher, you get 30 prestige points.

Please understand that our users are anticipating a response.

Our automated system notifies you if you do not answer your questions within 2 days. You'll get that same email reminder after 5 days. If you have 3 or more questions pending for more than 7 days AND you have not answered a question in the past 4 days the system automatically deactivates your account. Upon deactivation, the system deletes the questions in your Unanswered Questions queue and lets those questioners know that they will not get a response from you.

The system posts new questions and answers to the Archive at 1 AM GMT every night. So if you answered the question today, it will not show up on our site until tomorrow.

In addition, to maximize the quality of the Q&A we make available to the public, the system is programmed to post only answers that meet the following criteria:

1. The expert answering the question has responded to more than 8 questions and maintains an average rating above 9
2. The answer is more than 250 characters long.

Log in to your Expert Home Page. In the "Category Profiles" section, find the category you'd like to update, and click "Settings" next to it. Please remember to click the update button to make sure you save all the changes you make!

To list yourself on vacation, log in to your Expert Home Page. Answer all your current/pending questions. If you do not answer your question(s) prior to setting yourself on vacation, the system will continue to send you notifications, followed by a deactivation of your account. In the "Account Settings" Section, click on the "Update Vacation Settings" link. After reading the instructions on that page, set your vacation dates and please remember to click the update button to make sure you save all the changes you make!

Log in to your Expert Home Page. In the "Account Settings" Section, click on the "Update Name, Email, Password" link. This will take you to a form where you can change the global settings for your account.

We will only change a rating if we receive an email from the questioner who rated you asking us to do so. Volunteers send us several requests to change or remove negative ratings each week. It is just not fair to the other experts we've turned down if we started making exceptions. It is also unfair to the thousands of other volunteers on our site who do not ask.

No need to worry, though. We throw out outliers when we calculate your averages, so as long as the rest of your ratings are good, this one won't appear in your public profile or affect your overall stats.

If you want to be listed in multiple categories, you'll need to apply separately for each additional category. We do this to allow experts to customize each profile with information relevant to each category.

Just Click Here and tell us which category it is.

If you want to switch categories, fill out and submit the application form for the category you'd like to switch to, then Click Here and let us know which category to remove you from.

First, check to make sure your account is set up correctly. Is your email address correct? Try sending yourself a question from our site; is that working? If it isn't, Let Us Know so we can fix it ASAP.

Look at the description by your name; is it compelling? Finally, you might consider volunteering for an additional area if all else fails.

You can limit the number of questions you receive per day for each of your categories from your Expert Home Page. In the "Category Profiles" section, just click the "Settings" link next to each category.
If you still get too many questions and you are in multiple categories, try dropping some of them. This will make you less visible to readers. Look over the description by your name; is it too general? Perhaps it could be more specific? Finally, if all else fails, consider putting yourself on vacation every other week or so.

You may need to revise your description. A good description will either specifically indicate the kinds of questions you can answer, or the kinds you can't (or both). You might also try changing your instructions to questioners.

You have 2 options: You can take a "hiatus" by putting yourself on vacation for the next few months or You can ask us to deactivate your account. Click here to send us an email and we'll remove you from our listings.

You can find detailed answers to questions from individual experts in the AllExperts.com Category of our Q&A Archive.

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