I don't use any other Q&A sites, and was not aware of their existence before I found Mahalo. Like most people I do ask and answer questions in forums.

What I like about MA is the friendly and intelligent community, combined with the fun of racking up best answers and M$. In the future I could also see MA being a nice source of income, but the tip levels would have to rise a lot for that!

What can be improved?

1) Fix the bugs! Like the tabs and page links on a user profile page that don't do anything

2) More filtering and sorting options to find questions that are interesting

3) A lot of questions seem to end up in a limbo with no best answer selected. This is very frustrating when you've put in the effort to research and write a good answer, and MA should figure out a way that a best answer always gets chosen within a reasonable timescale. (Ok for "No good answer" to be the result, but there should be a result!)

4) I would suggest using tags instead of categories. Questions don't often sit nicely in one and only one category. e.g. Mine about "How did you get started as a freelance writer?" Is it about writing, careers, money, or what? Well all of them!

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