Do you think Mahalo should have a bonus question of the day? I think it will make mahalo a more exciting community?

Here's what I'd suggest that might catch on: - Mahalo sets up a Question of the Day pot at noon of day 1, funds it with M$0.25 and announces it. - Over the following 24 hours, any Mahaloian who cares to pops in, answers with a nomination of one question they like from all currently open questions, their own or someone else's, and adds at least M$0.05 to the pot by voting the question up. If desired, this could be further limited to questions no more than 1 day old.

- Each Mahaloian who nominates a question is required to vote up at least one other answer than their own to have their answer eligible. - At noon of day 2, the Mahalo staff member who opened the question closes it and selects as Best Answer the one with most vote. - Mahalo sends a M$2.50 tip to the asker of the selected question and adds M$2.50 to the selected Question of the Day.

This way, we get the following benefits: 1. Mahalo's cost is only M$5.25 per day. 2. There is incentive for active participation because the successful nominator gets the team tip.

3. There is incentive to ask good questions because the best question of the day gets the asker M$2.50. 4.

The best question gets a boost to its tip, making it likely to stay on the front page for a while.

We used to have a Question of the Day contest (QotD) but it never really caught on the way the Answer of the Day contest did. At one time there was both the QotD and the AotD .. then a sort of hybrid of the two and finally the QotD just disappeared for lack of interest. It very will might be time to try it again though .. there are seemingly millions and millions of new users that very well might bring light back to the idea and participation might just shoot right through the roof!

mahalo.com/answers/search?q=qotd Click Here to see some of the previous contests. We are free to hold any contest we like so if you have any ideas just put them out here and see what catches on.. fire hopefully .. I loved to participate in these contests.

I think it would help keep people interested and the good members busy .... as long as the category of question rotated each day ie one day its about coupons, the next comsumer electronics, the next a how to do something....as long as you spread out the bonus so everyone can participate then its a good idea. Competitions don't last long when only a few people answer them, I think that's what happened to AotD. So only a good idea if the load and reward are spread out over the community and the questions require good research and quality work :) AND they don't get voted NBA by the asker - wow didn't that put a lot of people off ...yeah we know which ones I mean..... I don't answer those mostly, I'm scared all my hard work will be wasted....

A bonus "question of the day" would of course demand a bonus "answer of the day". This SHOULD bring incentive to the Mahalo community in both ways. Both would present new challenges.

How about featuring a quote of the day? There are SO many beautiful, educational, philosophical quotations. Maybe a daily contest for the best quotation!

OR, Mahalo could post a quote and the Answers could provide the best interpretation/elaboration of the quotation. "Some say the best way to forget your troubles is to wear tight shoes, but I say go out and hug somebody. " -Barbara Johnson, author "Boomerang Joy.

Offcourse it make mahalo more popular but may be they have capacity problem.

I think it's a fantastic idea! This would bring current users and new users to try to answer the question for the bonus and in doing so, answer more questions. The amount offered for the bonus would have to be in keeping with the question.

Since you are just anonymous I suppose we will never know. In school a bonus question was a way to get extra credit on a test. Mahalo already has too many questions to answer, just not good ones.

If you mean a question with extra tip, that happens now when Mahalo folks like a question. Perhaps you mean questions about Bonus, Texas? If so, it seems a rather boring place, with a population of only 42, and questions about it are unlikely to be interesting.

I think it would be a much better idea to have a Beer Question of the Day. Some Mahalo employee could ask a question about beer every day, with the tip being big enough to buy the person with the best answer a beer.

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