Kick-ass new email settings for Mahalo Answers!!!
This is killer!
1. What do you guys think of this?
2. I've got another idea we're working on: people who give amazing answers consistently might get .05 to .25 every time they answer--best answer or not--up to a certain number of answers a month (i.e. first 100, 200 or 500). This is my idea to replace revenue sharing (which is random). Thoughts?
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1. I'm also using some of the first email alerts that were installed just a week or two ago and they are also a pleasant surprise. I think I added too many at first, but now have it set just right. Now I get to mess around with some more bell and whistles. Thanks.
I only have one request, and that is to have your wonderful devs fix the cache issue with comments. They are taking 40+ minutes to post making the typical Mahalo banter hard to follow. It's been on the Mahalo bug forum for a week now, and been an issue for almost two weeks. It's on my wish list!
Thanks for putting up with us!
*Mahalo developers and programmers hard at work for us!
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I like the idea of .05 to .25 for each answer versus revenue sharing. I say this because once you get pretty good at Mahalo Answers you figure out that certain questions, and answering them in certain ways, will generate more revenue sharing (assuming you win BA). This leads to "commercial" answers. Not that that is necessarily bad, but it does make some of the questions and answers "calculated."
So that leads to "amazing answers consistently." What would be the parameter for this? A BA score of 30% or more, 40% or more? And if that were the case, would that make people think twice about answering questions that they are not reasonably sure they can get a BA for out of a desire to continue earning M$? Would they start playing it "safe" and therefore reduce the amount of participation in Mahalo Answers?
For me, Mahalo Answers is not a place where I go to find information. If you do a search, it never brings up a Mahalo Answer (How-Tos, yes, Answers, no). That's not to say I don't get fascinating and useful information from Mahalo Answers; one of my favorites was learning about using Listerine to fend off mosquitoes.
I go to Mahalo Answers for:
#1 visiting with other Mahaloans and seeing what they've been discussing,
#2 the serendipitous knowledge I may acquire,
#3 the debates (sometimes #1 if it's a favorite topic),
#4 the humor,
#5 expressing my knowledge to others,
pretty much in this order.
The humor aspect usually comes from cryptic answer-comments when the poster wants to be part of the topic but really has no expectation about getting BA. This lowers his BA%, his "amazing answers consistently," but his participation helps Mahalo be the entertaining "I want to be here" place that it is.
So, maybe a better non-revenue-sharing approach would be a formula that rewards a combination of quantity and quality, weighted in favor of quality. Something like 1/2 a cent for every answer from everyone that gets a helpful vote (so newcomers are motivated to get/stay involved and post at least halfway decent answers) and into the $.05 to $.25 when someone reaches "amazing answers consistently."
Or maybe the formula is based on # of words in the answer times # of votes (so that if someone types gibberish presumably Mahaolans won't vote helpful and therefore no money is paid for that answer).
I do not have activity numbers to determine if any of these ideas are fiscally viable, but the concepts are shared for your consideration.
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I think we would manually set the reward level someone was assigned. Basically if we thought you added value we would give you up to TKTK amount for up to TKTK answers.
We know good answers when we see them, and it's clear who the good actors in the system are.
What we've learned over the past year or so, is that incentives that are random (i.e. revenue share) and game-able (i.e. .10 to tweet) don't work well for good actors. The bad actors love them however.... because they can work on ways to game things. :-)
The pay per answer thing does seem a bit more rewarding true good work rather than SEO knowledge. I like it. I imagine that's Mahalo $? It would be nice to see the store expanded a bit, give people more to spend their monies on.
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2. Great :)
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Hey bunny, we have been aware of the issue thanks to you and buddawigi's report on http://www.mahalo.com/feedback
Unfortunately, we haven't been able to consistently reproduce/track down the problem but will continue to look into it. If you could provide any additional details on this problem at http://support.mahalo.com/forums/58755-support/suggestions/957259-comments-still-taking-40-minutes-to-show-up-in-an, such as if it happens consistently, if it only happens when commenting on someone else's answer, etc it would help as well. Thanks!
I thought it was on their list to do. I just assumed there were bigger fires to attend to.
(crossing fingers that it'll be fixed soon!)
It took me 40 minutes to wait until I could read your comment. It happens with ALL the comments I see in spy. I'm surprised that this cache issue has been hard to spot.
@bundykim - when you go into spy and see that someone has commented in the past few minutes, then you then click on that thread... can you see the details of that comment? I'm using Safari, but I have tried every other browser. I know it's not just me and @buddawiggi.
Wasn't aware there was a problem with the cache. do developers know this?