I don't really know where this goes, I'm guessing here since this would be where people interested in helping newbs would hang out. I've asked for help using /advisor a few times, once there weren't any at all the other times I simply never got an answer, though in all cases I eventually got my problem licked, usually with some help from the IRC channel. I have recently taken to volunteering myself as an advisor, and from what I've been hearing from my advisees there really aren't that many around. I suspect some of this may be that advisor mode is reset every connection, but I think most of it is simply that people don't bother to turn it on in the first place. So I come here with a petition to all of you: go ahead and type /advisormode on, and help out where you can. It's nothing that you don't already do here, except you'll be reaching more people (most people won't register a forum account for a simple question).