New Feature: Team Tipping!
It just went live moments ago and what the idea does is it allows you to essentially "put your money where your mouth is" when you vote "Interesting" on a thread. You will be asked to add to the tip amount. Don't worry the lowest tip option is 5 cents, but you can put on as much as you like. Check out the screener provided below.
What we hope this accomplishes is more money being splashed around in the Mahalo community. As great as it is to accumulate Mahalo dollars, it's also great to pass money along to make the community better, if there is a question you read for 25 cents and you think it deserves a larger audience and more quality answers, click "interesting" and add some funds!
Discuss below.
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
M$26 Answers
For those who have yet to 'tip' outright, this is a great way to help them get their feet wet, and perhaps they will feel 'freer' with some MD when they see a comment or response that they feel is deserving of a separate tip all its own.
Yes, I did have this idea a while back (I just always wanted to bump up the value of great questions...) and yes others have put forward the same concept. Congrats to Mahalo for implementing what will be one of the more powerful community tools since - well - the community was built :)
http://www.mahalo.com/answers/mahalo-answers-suggestions/new-feature-suggestion-members-could-add-to-an-existing-tip-amount-on-a-good-question
Pump up the Volume!
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You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
M$a) higher tips on questions
b) more community involvement
c) better questions rising up the home page
d) more fun!
Great job to the development team for (finally) get his feature out the door. We've been dreaming about this feature since before launch and it's finally here! I'm sooooo excited!
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
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Wow - this idea has been out there for a while!
It'd be cool to get an idea bank going - I bet a lot of folks would contribute some great stuff. There are free & easy places to do this in the marvelous world of web 2.0
I see your May and raise you a January!
http://www.mahalo.com/answers/mahalo-answers-community/should-we-have-an-its-not-worth-the-money-button
Does @Clarusvisum go down in the Mahalo history books as the first?
Please ignore my "uninteresting vote", I just tried it to see if lets me change my vote and does anything to the tip. Kind of testing.
edit Comment still does not work. Can someone look into that?
"What he said"...
Thanks for the 'shout out' @JeffHoard. My response is here too. Great work Mahalo developers, super new feature, will bring the community together, it's fun, and more money is always better!
This is a great feature, someday we can figure out a way to ask a real team in a group photo, and possibly integrate something like this with the site I'm soon launching. Maybe a category could be called "team questions" where you can ask an entire team, and only those on the team could answer, like a private question for an entire team of people. I have some super good ideas for this feature...
I recently made a page on Mahalo Answers 2.0. Instead of being one drastic change to the website, it will be a collection of minor changes over a period of time. I'm supposed to be getting more information as time passes, so I encourage everyone to check it out.
I found part of the origin here, @hillo sent this back in May
I passed on the idea to Jason who said it was on the idea board.
In Monday's tutorial, Jason and Lon mentioned that there is a whitelabel Mahalo Answers system coming. While nothing was said about "teams", I suspect that a feature like this could exist in MA 2.0. It has been mentioned that people on your Mahalo friends list will be notified when you ask a question, so this essentially could be considered a team. Doesn't sound exactly like what you're thinking, but who knows what MA 2.0 and a whitelabel system will bring!!!
Also, you are hereby invited to name my feature suggestions any time, Eric! :)
So it doesnt allow me to change my vote, if by mistake I clicked No and also no option to increase the tip.
Don't forget to tip the person who coined "Team Tipping" :)
So what happens when someone clicks "No"? does it remove any tip?
Can you change your tip amount? For instance, if you thought it was interesting, but as more people answer, you want to add more to the tip, can you do that?
I was going to make it rain Mahalo dollars... but I figured that I'll save that for a champagne room question.
:)
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
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I've obviously been out of the country too long..
Splashy cashy baby!!!!
Got money and you know it, take it out your pockets and show it then throw it!
make it rain!
now I know where the odd amounts are coming from.
Don't forget the guy who came up with the name Team Tipping :)
I feel powerful now!
I can wave my bunny paw and spread the wealth around!
I am currently an active pusher of the interesting button.
As you can see from the picture below.
When you combine money with bunny, you get more little money bunnies!
(caution: must know rudimentary origami skills)
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
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Not that I do, but just out of curiosity, what happens if someone clicks the uninteresting button?
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
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I would have left it optional. All problems solved, no benefits lost.
Fair points.
I think the interesting vote has been used in a lot of ways like flagging up things that people shouldn't miss, so *requiring* me to add a tip feels like charging me for doing good deeds!
It's appropriate for those times when I really want to know the answer to the question too, but those times are a minority of the cases when I vote things interesting.
Since we give people M$1-M$3 for just starting up in the system and spending a little bit of time asking them to put .05 to click the button is really nothing. It should have the opposite effect: folks are going to want to show they are generous!!!
Maybe adding a tip to the interesting vote could be optional, so those that want to add to the value can do so, but those that just want to bring attention to good question can also do so without paying for it.
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
M$Having the *option* to add a tip to someone else's question is great, and hopefully it should really reward good answers to guestions that are of widespread interest.
But I do have a couple of questions / reservations about the way it seems to be being done.
1) Does this mean you *have* to add to the tip in order to mark something interesting?
I mark things interesting as a community service not because I personally want to know the answer. A lot of things I vote up are Mahalo announcements and such. 5c isn't a lot, but if you want people to mark lots of questions interesting it'll soon add up. Esp as most users don't earn much in tips to begin with.
2) How does the money get distributed? Does the asker still get to award the entirety of the money, even though they didn't put it all up?
Not sure that if I offered a big tip of my own I'd want someone else choosing who deserved it the most.
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
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Yes, you now have to add a tip if you want to mark something as interesting, and yes the system is still the same, the asker chooses best answer, if not it goes to voting. If you don't trust the asker then you should'nt mark it as interesting.
If no best answer is chosen the money is returned to all the individual tippers.
Good questions!! deep thinking, I like that!!
Here's an example of a questiont that I'd vote interesting, but don't want to add a tip too...
http://www.mahalo.com/answers/business/how-to-get-angel-funding-when-one-is-disabled-homebound-and-cannot-go-out-to-make-presentations-currently-run-2-businesses
It's an interesting question, but it's already tipped a M$100, so nothing anyone adds will make a lot of difference. Plus it's not the kind of question I need to know the answer to myself.
Notice that it does not appear very high on the page, because no one has marked it interesting.
I think this might actually work, especially on the more complex, yet interesting questions.
One question: If a question has a 0.25 funded by Mahalo, will 'Team tipping' add to that 0.25, or will it replace that amount? Since that amount is only funded by Mahalo if the original questionner doesn't tip himself...
After individual tipping, and now team tipping, maybe this is next?
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
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Good question, the 25c funded by Mahalo stays on the question even after a team tip is added.
This one for example was a 25c question before I added M$1
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
M$It might be helpful for some of the Mahalo announcements to get auto-pinned at the top though instead of relying on tip ranking.
Also, maybe the unhelpful button should also have a minimum tip?
Not sure where the money would go though, maybe to a charity system?
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
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Great idea! That isn't currently the case, though.
Hi @soundboy,
That might work for unhelpful answers, but I was more referring to unhelpful questions. In those cases, you don't want a tip going to the person asking the question! So there would be a need to put the money elsewhere.
One more idea to throw out there.
Some folks have mentioned that voting a question as interesting without paying a tip is still desired.
How about allowing a small number of free votes per day (between 2 and 5 maybe?) regardless of belt level. The idea being that lower belt users can still participate without spending money and higher belt level users will hopefully have the cash available to vote over their "limit".
What do you think?
A couple other ideas and questions to throw out there.
How about allowing higher belt levels to mark helpful answers without a tip.
On the one hand, they should have the most cash, so tipping isn't such an issue. But on the other hand, they are the ones (I would assume) who are best at spotting the good questions. Just a thought.
Also, what happens when "No Best Answer" is selected. Do all the tips go back to the tippers? I seem to remember that some "Announcement" messages have a tip on them, but always use the "No Best Answer" in the end.
I like the idea of requiring a tip to vote an answer unhelpful. This might discourage people from abusing that button. The money could just be added to the question value.
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
M$
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
M$
i think it will discourage some from voting interesting because they either:
1. can't tip a lot because they don't have a lot and don't want to seem cheap next to those giving more
2. for those who want to cash out their mahalo dollars, or need to, now they just won't vote anymore.
and some people go through and use all their votes every day... that could really add up to more than some people could give. so their vote limit becomes how much they can afford instead of what they've earned by points and belt level.
i also think that showing how much people gave does two things... it makes some give more, and makes some not give at all... it can become competitive.
all that being said, i do like that we can add to what the question is worth... a lot of them are worth more than the default 25 cents and it's fun to see how high they can go when people think they are interesting. =D
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
M$
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
M$I would like to add money...... but be able to choose for it to go to the
Asker OR Answerer
Sometimes questions are so well thought out and add so much to the site, it just wish there was a way to tip the ASKER, so if you could make this "interesting vote" tip money to the guy who wrote the "interesting" question that would make sense to me.
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
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@jfs... if you think someone asked a great question, I think you can go ahead and tip them for that already.
Come to think of it, it does make a lot of sense to reward people for asking good questions.
hmm, seems to be working for everybody else, can you try again please?
What type of browser are you using?
OK, I clicked interesting but no option appeared to add funds...oh well...
Worked for me on another question, must have been a fluke.
Technically by tipping the an ANSWERER you are rewarding the ASKER by getting their question to the top of Mahalo's homepage and encouraging more/better quality answers (larger tip)!
By tipping the asker I think there could be attempts to game the system.
Does this tipping be awarded to the questioning person or the answerer ? Is there anyway to give tip to the questioner for this questions through this system ?
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
M$
I have also seen great answers, so I was wondering if you can use this same system to tip answers?
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
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Still, I guess I usually only mark questions as interesting if I also want to know the answer, so this is a good idea.
Questions:
1. If I put a tip on someone else's question, will answers to that question show up in my activity area?
2. Does this mean we can take tips off of a question by marking it as uninteresting?
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
M$
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
M$
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
M$Interesting idea though... I'll have to see how it works...
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
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I think this is a "hidden" feature then. NOONE will know that this feature is there!
Perhaps a clickable needs to be put in the question that explicitly says it?
There is already a button to tip individual answers.
This doesn't tip the questioner it raises the bounty for the best answer
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
M$BTW, don't forget to tip the guy who coined the name for "Team Tipping"
Here I am, and proof is below with the email thread.
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
M$- Usernames of those who mark an answer as 'helpful' aren't appearing.
- Jason mentioned in the tutorial yesterday that usernames would be sorted based on the amount they tipped. That doesn't seem to be happening currently. Is that a bug, or just a feature that hasn't been implemented yet?
- It'd be cool if there was an area on user profiles that showed questions that they found interesting (under Recent Activity or Answers), and perhaps even an area for how much the user has tipped through the 'interesting' feature.
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
M$You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
M$
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
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Looks like it sticks to the original tip, you got 12 points for this and my original tip was M$2
Good Q @stanar - But My comment/question was in fact about you in this case - the users who are providing (splashing the) cash. Do you all who added to the tip I won get any points for 'tipping' via the interesting button? (I don't think that's part of the new feature - yet)
Perhaps this could sweeten interesting 'tipping' and increase it's use. (Thanks very much everyone for the tips... :)
Oh, One technical question. Right now, if you tip someone you are awarded points...any thoughts on points that might be attached to tips spent on the new 'interesting' question feature.
Either way I wil be using it, and already have. In fact I plan to use it regularly. But if members get a point every (Number MD spent) they might be happier with the overall concept - it might fit closer to the Mahalo 'point' model as well - that so many users know and love as we work along the belt system. Just another thought...
@jeffhoard - Actually 2 points for each M$1. So user should hv got 14 points.
But is there a plan to offer points for the additional tip due to interesting vote?