September 10 Answer of the Day Contest!
From here on out anyone who nominates an answer for the contest will be entered in a drawing. These drawings will take place each Wednesday during the tutorial with Lon. The winner will be awarded a *Mahalo* item such as coffee mug, hat, towel or what ever they have at the moment. Each participant will be entered once a day and if you play every day you will be entered every day which means more chances for you to win!
Next Drawing: September 16!
How to Play:
1) Find the best answer you can find from ANY specific belt level. (This means anyone is eligible for entry) Answers from Twitter questions are allowed.
2) Post the permalink to the answer here in this thread.
3) State why you think this answer deserves to win.
4) Vote helpful on another entry (so your nomination will count)
Recommended
1) Comment on the answer you nominated, telling them you are using their answer as your entry to AotD.
2) If you win the AOTD prize, Tip the author of the answer you used, as a sign of appreciation.
3) Come back throughout the day and vote "helpful" on the best submissions
4) Break a tie if you see one
Tip: A great way to find Great answers is by voting on Undecided Questions
Prizes...
This time we are offering three prizes!!!!!
1st Place: M$5 + Team Tips
2nd Place: M$3
3rd Place: M$2
First prize will go to the user who gets the most helpful votes.
***Don't forget to vote interesting so we can keep it on the top of the page!
*Tip: Stealing Jeff's graphic to help explain how to link to the permalink.
Miss yesterday's contest? Check out the nominations and winners http://www.mahalo.com/answers/mahalo-contests/september-9-answer-of-the-day-contest here]
Want to see who has been nominated before? Check out the Contest Stats page!
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M$9 Answers
Do all points of view have equal weight?
He answers this without becoming opinionated himself, and uses Mahalo and Jason Calacanis as a good example!
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M$Girlieq3000's answer
She gives a very in-depth answer with a number of facts and figures behind her answer and using what facts the user who asked the question gave.
This answer alone is a great reason why @girlieq3000 is a Brown Belt and moving up in the Mahalo world.
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M$
A detailed answer from both view points.
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M$
What was the Renaissance style of art? What were the Mannerist elements?
She gives a fantastic description answering the complete question and goes above and beyond by inlinking the Mahalo site in the appropriate areas throughout her answer and finishing with a great video making this answer certainly qualified for Answer of the Day.
Art well presented @bunnyphuphu Great job.
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M$
Ah, Bacchus the Roman God of wine and inebriation! (AKA Dionysius in Greek mythology). I missed this question. Thanks for pointing this out, Budawiggi! I'm going to this thread later today to see what I missed. Thanks for the artwork. Lovely way to start my day...(viewing the painting, not drinking :)
Here is my answer to the follow up question How did the Renaissance express the power and energy of nature? and of course a second follow up on that question too!
*@davepmn keeps you on your toes!
I agree that the answer was excellent. I created two follow up questions, as a result of @bunnyphuphu answer. I believe, it is helpful, if the answer has inline links. I don't use inline links, as a criteria, for selection.
Buddawiggi's Answer
@buddawiggi clearly provides some creative, insightful, great ideas to this offbeat question. @omicron also managed to provide some some ideas to @buddawiggi 's answer.
Great Job @buddawiggi !
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M$
for the answer to @buddawiggi 's question
Are there any good reasons for the United States to invade Canada? If so what are they?
Excellent tongue-in-cheek answer, detailing all the best "reasons" for an invasion.
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M$
I haven't been online as much the last couple of days so i missed this question and answer.
I'm going to click on the Permalink now...but I hope among @albanian's tongue and cheek answer are my two reasons for invading Canada... so we can have:
(1) Universal healthcare for all
(2) Marriage for all
Oh, maybe that's not so tongue-in-cheek after all!
The answer is very creative and original. The answer provides interesting tips and insight to the question. I recommend everybody to read his answer.
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M$
@suzd688 goes in depth as to the reasons why it can be beneficial to not choose a best answer as soon as you think the question is answered. she actually said everything i had thought of saying, and put it in an easy to understand manner.
i think more questions should be left open longer just for the reasons she stated.
nice answer
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M$Why do Hurricanes form a vortex?
Thanks for all the Answers from everyone.
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Not sure if it's AOTD materiel, I mean no offense to @tchchra, but the answer was simply copied from Yahoo Answers, and the answer from Yahoo was unsourced.
I thought one of our more-or-less unwritten rules was not to quote or grab answers out of yahoo or wiki answers?
Yes, a very good answer. I'd also like to say that I thought this was a very good QUESTION!!!
Kudos to both Smartweb and Budawiggi...and a nod to Bunnyphuphu for recognizing this.
thanks! nominated two days in a row! a new personal record!