Newbie Tuesday - What is Team Tipping?

I'm not a Mahalo veteran, since I've only been around a few weeks, but I thought I'd look for information on Team Tipping since no one else had answered yet. In searching, I found this post: mahalo.com/answers/new-feature-team-tipping Basically, team tipping is adding a tip to a question that users think is interesting. Team Tipping was introduced on July 29, 2009, in the hopes of getting more money spread around on Mahalo.

The lowest tip option was 5 cents, but I see that the minimum tip is now only 1 penny. And people can tip as much as they want to. With this tipping feature, users can increase the amount offered as a tip for the best answer.

If, let's say, a question is asked with a 25-cent tip, but users think it's a really interesting question and/or will require a good bit of research and thought, they can vote up the question with tips and make it worth more, which will hopefully encourage more good answers. Following the above-referenced post, Mahaloian Jason Calacanis predicted that Team Tipping would result in... ---Quote a) higher tips on questions b) more community involvement c) better questions rising up the home page d) more fun! ---End quote It seems to me from my few weeks of experience here that these predictions were accurate.

I also see that the location of the feature is different now than it was when first introduced. While it was recently a "Yes" link next to, "Interesting Question? " just below the original question asked, it is now in the upper right-hand corner of each question box.

You click on the up vote arrow and a box pops up asking how much you'd like to tip. You can choose one of the amounts or type in your own at the bottom of the list. There is no maximum.

I can see that, so far on this question, the following tips have been added: voted interesting: vladis M$0.10, shadowbear M$0.05, bunnyphuphu M$0.05, nariekalo M$0.01 for a total of 21 cents added to the original tip of $5.00, and that amount can continue to increase. I think Team Tipping, in addition to increasing the value of interesting, thought-provoking questions, therefore encouraging more quality answers, has increased the quality of Mahalo overall, particularly noticeable in comparison to other Q&A sites I've looked at and participated with. It's just one part of the community aspect of Mahalo and a positive form of check and balance.

Team Tipping helps quality questions rise to the top so they're more visible on the Home Page, and I do think it encourages more people to use the tipping feature, especially since you can tip so little to give a question a thumbs up. In fact, I'm going to add my first tip right now.

I'm not a Mahalo veteran, since I've only been around a few weeks, but I thought I'd look for information on Team Tipping since no one else had answered yet. In searching, I found this post: mahalo.com/answers/new-feature-team-tipping Basically, team tipping is adding a tip to a question that users think is interesting. Team Tipping was introduced on July 29, 2009, in the hopes of getting more money spread around on Mahalo.

The lowest tip option was 5 cents, but I see that the minimum tip is now only 1 penny. And people can tip as much as they want to. With this tipping feature, users can increase the amount offered as a tip for the best answer.

If, let's say, a question is asked with a 25-cent tip, but users think it's a really interesting question and/or will require a good bit of research and thought, they can vote up the question with tips and make it worth more, which will hopefully encourage more good answers. Following the above-referenced post, Mahaloian Jason Calacanis predicted that Team Tipping would result in... ---Quote a) higher tips on questions b) more community involvement c) better questions rising up the home page d) more fun! ---End quote It seems to me from my few weeks of experience here that these predictions were accurate.

I also see that the location of the feature is different now than it was when first introduced. While it was recently a "Yes" link next to, "Interesting Question? " just below the original question asked, it is now in the upper right-hand corner of each question box.

You click on the up vote arrow and a box pops up asking how much you'd like to tip. You can choose one of the amounts or type in your own at the bottom of the list. There is no maximum.

I can see that, so far on this question, the following tips have been added: voted interesting: vladis M$0.10, shadowbear M$0.05, bunnyphuphu M$0.05, nariekalo M$0.01 for a total of 21 cents added to the original tip of $5.00, and that amount can continue to increase. I think Team Tipping, in addition to increasing the value of interesting, thought-provoking questions, therefore encouraging more quality answers, has increased the quality of Mahalo overall, particularly noticeable in comparison to other Q&A sites I've looked at and participated with. It's just one part of the community aspect of Mahalo and a positive form of check and balance.

Team Tipping helps quality questions rise to the top so they're more visible on the Home Page, and I do think it encourages more people to use the tipping feature, especially since you can tip so little to give a question a thumbs up. In fact, I'm going to add my first tip right now....

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