How many users on askville, if any, are employed by askville? Or is this a conflict of interest?

askville.amazon.com/about_us.htmlThe about us link states that Brandon Yarbrough used to spend way too much time on Askville. Now, Brandon spends way too much time on Askville professionally. What other users are/were part of the askville team?

Can askville employees be actively involved in questions, or are they exempt since they work for askville? Asked by dwdrums 53 months ago Similar Questions: users askville employed conflict interest Recent Questions About: users askville employed conflict interest Amazon > Askville.

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Of course we use Askville! Okay, first, as a small aside, you have no idea how spooky it is to be randomly browsing around questions and to come across your real name in a question. I know it’s listed on the about us page, but there’s something vaguely...unsettling about that.

Anyway, to anwer your question, we wrote and work on Askville because it’s the sort of site we want to use. It’d be awfully silly to go through all the trouble of building it only to not use it afterwards, now wouldn’t it? We’re pretty good users, too.

Look at Chumpboy! At the time of this writing, 9 of his last 10 answers were best answer, and he’s got over 1600 coins. Not bad at all!

It makes sense for us to use Askville as often as possible. You wouldn’t want some boring team of programmers who didn’t interact with the users and wouldn’t get into passionate debate over whether we’re all Askvillagers, Askvillains (), Askvillers, or Askvillians, wouldn’t you? That’d be awful!

Imagine if some UI designers who never used Askville wrote a feature list for some programmers who haven't the faintest clue who Poppet or PamPerdue are! It'd be awful! At the same time, we’ve got to be exceedingly careful to separate our personal opinions (Askvillains forever!

) from Askville’s official stance ( That can be a challenge, especially on controversial questions, so we read more discussion boards than we actually post to. You probably won’t catch us posting over in the politics tag, for instance. Although we are in fact completely exempt from getting those gift certificates and that cool JayD mug.

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1 ummm I did not know that before, interesting though .

Ummm I did not know that before, interesting though.

2 In Soviet Russia, askville works for you! This user has been banned from Askville.

2 In Soviet Russia, askville works for you! .

3 Sorry to freak you out... Brandon Yarbrough! (the Holy Grail music is queued from the scene in which the nights who say Ni are challenging king Arthur to cut down the mightiest of trees with... with... a herring! ) .

Sorry to freak you out... Brandon Yarbrough! (the Holy Grail music is queued from the scene in which the nights who say Ni are challenging king Arthur to cut down the mightiest of trees with... with... a herring! ).

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