Which is more important to you when judging a Mahalo answer, lots of links or an authentic personal knowledge?
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If it is something I feel I can explain that doesn't need expanding, I'll go with my own info.
If it something that I feel I can explain but parts need visual or more indepth explanation, I'll combine the two.
If it is something I know nothing about, but would like to help provide the person with an answer, I'll post more links.
I think that there should be a way to label preferred answers such as
--"bullet points" (for when you don't want an essay)
--"Prove it" (for when links are required)
--"No wiki" (for when you don't want information from Wikipedia
--"Personal" (for when you want personal experiences)
So, in answer to you question, it depends on what I'm asking.
My head (which is a little foggy today) and Wikipedia--because it seems everything is in Wikipedia, including personal thoughts.
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I try to do that in most of my answers.
I notice some people will go as far as asking, "explain why" and "don't just link wikipedia".
However, if you can provide me a link to a website that is valuable and has lots of information regarding the question I asked, then that is helpful too.
The quality of the link also has to be good. Anyone knows about wikipedia. People want more depth than that.
I would appreciate links to a site that has active discussions or a big FAQ area for me to explore.
That's my 0.02 cents at least.
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1. If I just want links, i can tweak my query in Google and can get desired answers, but that does not lead me to the best possible answer.
2. There is a lot of data and less relevant information on a particular subject when I search on Google, so I want answer from an expert who can use that data to reach conclusion.
After that it depends on the question too. For example if I want to find out the best movie of 2008, then the answer can be written along with some data from different sources and then the opinion. But if a question is like the one I am answering now, it would be hard to find some sources for it.
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Unless it is an opinion question, I like answers with at least one source to support it. Personal expertise is great but you never know if someone really is an expert in that field.
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Well, the difference is not really between "searches or actual expertise", but between your expertise, and someone else's. Frankly, I would rather have something from some established source rather than a personal account from a user, when looking for an answer to a question. In my experience, the former is a lot more reliable, and can be a jumping off point for more searching of my own if necessary.
Of course, the situation is different if it's an opinion question or if a question is literally addressing other Mahalo users. Then it would be kind of dumb to feed Person X's account to the questioner as an answer.
Personal experience (oh, the irony)
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I did see recently where an answerer responded to the question that one of the question was merely opinion and didn't belong here. I see lots of questions like that, but I don't mind. Sometimes I really do want to get a wide variety of ideas on the subject, and the more detailed the answer and the more inclusive of why they answered that way, the more complete picture I have of that topic.
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personal experiences :)
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personal opinion
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What I really hate is when someone says what is the best way to blank, and someone goes and gives a generic list of 20 sites that do blank without regard for which is the best. That is pointless, it's a waste of time, it's not going to be voted best, and it's not going to win you the dollars.
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When I see a nice cleanly organized list, bullet points, perfect grammar and a conclusion/bottom line at the end I think, "gee this is a very well researched and thought out answer."
As a group we need to really focus on delighting the paying customers so that they say "holy cow, I got five amazing answers for just $2?!!? Next time I'm gonna tip M$5 and I'm going to use this thing every day!"
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M$but in general-authentic personal knowledge----anyone can google an answer themselves----but sometimes spewing facts and figures doesn't answer a question..
I have helath conditions--I have gotten better personal info fromother people than is available on the web or from doctors
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Agree.
It's very dependant on the question. If I ask what are your ten favorite TV shows of 2008 I'm asking for just that: personal experience.
If I ask what were the most acclaimed shows on TV according to professional critics, well than I'm looking for research... and research is best with citations, links, and supporting media.
The best answers I've seen include both.... here are my favorite ten shows of 2008, but as you can see only seven of them match what the top critics have to say.