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Mahalo belts are rewarded once users reach a certain point level. You can earn points by doing almost anything within Mahalo, including answering questions, using the search and voting on undecided questions. Below is a complete list of ways you can earn points.
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How To Earn Points
- Join Mahalo: 50 Points
- Login to Mahalo: 1 Point (per day)
- Answer a Question: 2 Points
- Receive a Best Answer: 10 Points
- Vote on a Undecided Question: 1 Point
- Add a Source to an Answer: 1 Point
- Refute a fact on an Answer: 1 Point
- Complete a Mahalo Task: 10 Points
- Each 100 views on a Managed Page: 1 Points
More Ways To Earn Points
In addition to the list above, you can earn double points when you answer a question within the first hour that it is posted. Also the number points you earn per activity increase when more Mahalo Dollars are involved. When you receive Best Answer, you will earn an extra 2 points for every Mahalo Dollar involved.
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The White Belt
Welcome to Mahalo, just for signing up you earn 50 points and your first Mahalo belt. With a White Belt you are limited to two questions a day, but you can answer up to 20.
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White Belts can also claim up to 2 Mahalo Tasks
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The Yellow Tip
After getting 75 points you earn your yellow tip. With a White-Yellow belt your answer limit is still 20, but you can now ask 3 questions a day. Also you are granted 15 votes on the Undecided Questions in the community.
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The Yellow Belt
After getting your yellow tip you only need to 25 more points to reach the full yellow belt at 100. As a yellow belt you can now answer up to 40 questions a day and comment on 20. You are upgraded to 20 Undecided votes as well.
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Yellow Belts can claim up to 6 Mahalo Tasks
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The Green Belt
500 points will get you the full green belt. You can now ask 10 questions and answer 60. You can comment on 40 answers and vote on 40 Undecided questions.
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Green Belts can claim up to 8 Mahalo Tasks
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Green Belts gain access to the TwitterSearch tool, this allows users to search and import questions from Twitter that they would like to answer on Mahalo.
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The Purple Tip
1,250 points will give your green belt a purple tip. You can now ask 12 questions and answer 60. You can comment on 40 answers and vote on 50 Undecided questions.
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The Purple Belt
Purple belt is a big milestone at 2000 points. You can now ask 15 questions and answer 80. You can comment on 60 answers and vote on 60 Undecided questions.
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Purple Belts can claim up to 10 Mahalo Tasks
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The Brown Tip
Purple belt certainly one of the tougher belts, you don't earn your brown tip until you reach 5,000 points. You can now ask 17 questions and answer 80. You can comment on 60 answers and vote on 70 Undecided questions.
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How to Earn your Brown Belt
8,000 points indicates you are ready for brown belt, this is the Mahalo Elite. You don't automatically get your brown belt, you first need to pass a test conducted by the Mahalo Staff, you can see some of the tests conducted here.
Mahalo users are subjected to the test because of the advance editing options that become available to you as a brown belt. Mahalo expects brown belts to become the elite users who will essentially be real examples of what it means to be the best type of user on Mahalo. You will need to be experienced in Page Management and have had some approved Mahalo Tasks in order to pass your Brown Belt.
If we do not believe you are fit for the brown belt, we will contact you prior to the point where you reach 8000 points and explain why and how you can improve. -
The Brown Belt
Once you got the belt you can now ask 20 questions and answer 100. You can comment on 80 answers and vote on 80 Undecided questions.
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Brown Belts can claim up to 14 Mahalo Tasks
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A Brown Belt has the ability of editing Mahalo Pages that they do not Manage, we do ask that if they do make an edit that they contact the manager and let them know what changes they made.
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The Black Tip
10,500 points will give you a black tip on your brown belt. You can now ask 22 questions and answer 100. You can comment on 80 answers and vote on 90 Undecided questions.
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The Black Belt
13,000 points will earn you a black belt, much like the brown belt you do need to pass a 2nd test conducted by the Mahalo Staff, once passed you can now ask 25 questions and answer 120. You can comment on 100 answers and vote on 100 Undecided questions.
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Black Belts can claim up to 20 Mahalo Tasks
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2nd Degree Black Belt and Up
You can now ask 30 questions but how many you answer and comment on is unlimited as is the number of Undecided questions you vote on.
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Mahalo Answers for Mahalo Belts
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Mahalo Black Belt Test for @ninakat 16 AnswersThis is a no brainer. Nina is a true asset to Mahalo. She write pages prodigiously, and is a conscientious and thorough QC-er. Congratulations, Nina! read more -
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Mahalo Brown Belt Test - Girlieq3000 20 AnswersCongratulations! When I see those green eyes and cute ferret coming, I know I'm gonna be looking at a great answer! read more
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- Mahalo Bug Report
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- Mahalo Tutorials
- How Mahalo Payments Work
- Copy and Pasting on Mahalo
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- Mahalo Twitter
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