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Mahalo is adding a tip to all questions that don't offer a tip.
M$1.00  Funded By Mahalo ? |  April 24, 2009 11:37 PM

Quick announcement: Testing the M$ 1 dollar tips

We have bumped the auto tip amount back down to M$ 1 and also have re-enabled the .25 tips, just wanted to let everyone know.
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drmatt drmatt
 
 April 24, 2009 11:38 PM
What was the conclusion?

What is the difference between tipping M$1 and M$.25? Can you clarify when these amounts are in action?


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mike mike
 
April 24, 2009 11:43 PM
default tip is 1 but if a guide sees something that we deem "unworthy of the 1" but is not bad enough to completely delete it we will manually bump it down to the .25

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drmatt drmatt
 
April 25, 2009 12:12 AM
Wow... Good luck on that. Seems like that's going to take quite a bit of your time... and, judging by the questions I see, it's going to be interesting to see how you decide between the two.

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philipy philipy
 
April 25, 2009 12:24 AM
Well... I've been stuck with XXX.75c in account. I'll be glad to be able to round it out to a whole dollar! Though if it's only on dumb questions, perhaps I won't be able to bring myself to answer them anyway. :)

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srgothard srgothard
 
April 25, 2009 01:17 AM
@philipy, me too! Now I can get that final quarter.

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drmatt drmatt
 
April 25, 2009 01:27 AM
Quit your complaining... sheesh!

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jasoncalac... jasoncalac...
 
April 25, 2009 06:59 PM
At the end of the day here is what we've learned:

1. Folks are not here for the money. It's nice, but the top folks are here because it's a fun place to hang out.

2. The M$1 does increase participation slightly.

3. M$2 does not increase participation significantly (or at all).

Taking that all in we figure the following:

a) It's better to have 2x as many questions getting M$1 each (say 500 questions a day) vs. 250 getting M$2.
b) It's better to leave at least .25 on a question rather than zero (just feels like people should get SOMETHING for their effort)
c) It's really easy to manage the system if we don't have to worry about the auto-tipping. At M$2 there is a lot of money on the line (i.e. M$1,000 a day when we hit 500 questions a day), so it's better to keep it at M$1 and not worry if a couple of easy questions slip by.
d) Since we only have 250 questions a day right now it's easy for the 2-3 community manager to scan them and see if they should be bumped to .25.

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tracebooks tracebooks
 
April 25, 2009 03:42 AM
Yes, I'd love to see, eventually, how these experiments panned out.

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winmaster winmaster
 
April 26, 2009 06:40 PM
Awww, oh well, M$1 is better than nothing. I can see how it would be hard to make money if you are constantly giving it out.

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