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kazuki

M¢25 Funded By Mahalo ? | November 10, 2009 09:50 PM

What do you like most and least about Mahalo?

I'm new here. I'm savvy on the subject of the web, tech, futurism, and business models. I don't quite get Mahalo. I think Jason Calacanis is very sharp, and I think Mahalo is well done, but I don't see where it is going.

What are the best and worst aspects in your opinion?

I like the concept of the payment model, but I don't see how it can grow given the tiny dollar amounts. It seems like the more time I spend here, the more I am devaluing myself.

As a newbie, I can't even afford to offer a tip for this question. I've answered a number of questions, but I would have to spend insane amounts of time here to get to a decent level.

What am I missing?

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jeffhoard

November 12, 2009 06:13 AM

I like the whole concept and idea of paying users not only to create informative and helpful web results, but also paying users to manage and keep pages updated.

It's like a community of library curators...but cooler.

I like the community most, there is a great group of people who are on Mahalo daily building pages and helping each other out, it's great to know these joint efforts that happen daily.

What I like the least is probably the amount of bugs, I understand completely that the website is constantly evolving. Working closely with the in-house staff I have have come to appreciate how far the site has come and the bugs, I know are simply side-effects to the website growing and bursting at the seams. Luckily Mahalo has one of best dev teams on the web and are working daily to improve everybody's experience.

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kazuki

November 12, 2009 05:00 PM

Jeff,

I did a bit of Wikipedia work, but I've been turned off by the Wiki-Nazis who feel their views are the only ones that count. I've had valid, well-documented, objective entries reverted, and whole pages deleted by a few megalomaniacs. I've given up on updating Wikipedia for this reason.

How do I learn more about page creation and updating here?

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jeffhoard

November 12, 2009 05:10 PM

Hi Kazuki, Welcome to Mahalo, we hope you don't run into any such problems here at Mahalo. As a new member the best way to learn how to get started building Mahalo pages is by building a couple pre-set Mahalo Tasks - Our staff will help you learn get through the process of what needs to be part of a Mahalo page, once you get the hang of it you can request building pages on any term you see fit, just do a search for any topic on Mahalo.com and if the page is available you can request to build it.

Check out How to Build a Mahalo Page and the Mahalo Page Management Guide for more information on starting your own pages.

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