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January 18, 2009 03:47 AM

Do you like or dislike the 'From Email' questions? Also, do you think the anonymity is go or bad?

A while back Jason asked:
http://www.mahalo.com/answers/mahalo-answers-community/should-mahalo-answers-allow-anonymous-questions-or-not
and he got about 30 answers on the topic. The answers were about equal on the yes' and no's

Then, a few days ago, Mahalo released a new feature allowing people to ask a question anonymously (kinda):
http://www.mahalo.com/answers/email/beta-new-feature-post-questions-by-email-now-open-to-all ;
The person asking the question has to send an email back from the original email address they sent the question from. Obviously Mahalo has this on record and can remove a question or user that is inappropriate.

But, are they (in)appropriate?

The user emailuser21:
http://www.mahalo.com/member/emailuser21
Sent in a question and asked "Why is Jason Calacanis so white"?
http://www.mahalo.com/answers/from-email/why-is-jason-calacanis-so-white

I know this question was just in fun; however, do we really need these types of questions here?

In my opinion, I think this community should ask appropriate questions and give appropriate answers. I understand there are going to be fun and silly questions (I have asked a few), but I think they need to be beneficial to thecommunity. I personally don't think this type of question is a good representation of our community.

What do you think?

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spoon

January 18, 2009 04:02 AM

I love the new email option when it works, I have had 2 questions disappear into the tubes and never post and still have not heard back from Mahalo as to what happen.

I do think a change needs to be put into place that users need to FIRST set up an account and link their email address to the account. This way the questions are not from random "email user" accounts in order to help eliminate the questions that are perhaps taking away from the quality of the site

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rslakinski

January 18, 2009 01:38 PM

We've made some fixes since we first announced the feature, please try again and if you have any issues please email me at rays at mahalo dot com and I'll do my best to help you resolve the issues.

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