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April 26, 2009 08:33 PM
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I agree it's a true abuse of the twitter importer tool to change the content of somebody else's tweet and should be discouraged. From what I can see is this was imported by @Danielle, who is one of Mahalo's in-house guides. I do know Mahalo employees have been using the tool to get more questions onto Answers for our community of researchers to answer.
I can't speak for @Danielle, but I don't think she meant to abuse the tool, I suspect she thought it was a question and figured she was just fixing up the grammar. Either way, the question has now been vanished and removed from the system.
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To me it seems obvious, that whoever imported this question did not clue into the fact that it was not an actual question. At first glance, taking the tweet out of context and the twitter stream - which the import function does, I can see how this error was made.
I am not sure such an error is really a problem in the over-all scheme of things. You're more likely to get a 'What?' response from the recipient. However, if the same person keeps making the same mistake, our friendly neighborhood monitors are likely to step in.
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Mahalo is adding a tip to all questions that don't offer a tip.
Why are some posts from Twitter changed into questions when they weren't questions to begin with?
Is it because of users importing then editing twitter questions? If this happened to me, via twitter, I would be annoyed at getting responses to a question I never really asked in the first place. Plus, it wastes time for people to research these non-questions.
For example, this twitter post:
http://twitter.com/therage/status/1622402019
became this Mahalo Answers question:
http://www.mahalo.com/answers/shopping/where-can-i-find-oscillating-fans-in-philedelphia
This person was obviously not asking where to find oscillating fans, but rather just quoting something they heard. Also, Philadelphia is misspelled!
For example, this twitter post:
http://twitter.com/therage/status/1622402019
became this Mahalo Answers question:
http://www.mahalo.com/answers/shopping/where-can-i-find-oscillating-fans-in-philedelphia
This person was obviously not asking where to find oscillating fans, but rather just quoting something they heard. Also, Philadelphia is misspelled!
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| April 26, 2009 10:31 PM |
I can't speak for @Danielle, but I don't think she meant to abuse the tool, I suspect she thought it was a question and figured she was just fixing up the grammar. Either way, the question has now been vanished and removed from the system.
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April 26, 2009 10:37 PM
We need to only correct spelling or typos in my mind (which no one would be offended by). I will talk to Danielle
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April 26, 2009 09:11 PM
I think that you just found an imperfect use of the system. In his original post about importing Twitter questions, Jason Calacanis specifically requested that we edit the questions for spelling and presumably grammar errors. Epic fail on that. To me it seems obvious, that whoever imported this question did not clue into the fact that it was not an actual question. At first glance, taking the tweet out of context and the twitter stream - which the import function does, I can see how this error was made.
I am not sure such an error is really a problem in the over-all scheme of things. You're more likely to get a 'What?' response from the recipient. However, if the same person keeps making the same mistake, our friendly neighborhood monitors are likely to step in.
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April 26, 2009 09:31 PM
Furthermore, I'll note that question was not actually answered by anyone, and another one of the guidelines for importing questions is that we should ONLY import them if we actually intend to answer them ourselves.
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April 26, 2009 10:32 PM
@robotech_master Employees have been importing questions for the community and not answering them specifically to leave them open to users.
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