Should "Highest Tipped" Questions replace "Featured Question" on the front page? Should Mahalo let the members have greater control of site?

Both sections ARE already featured on the Answers Front Page. Are you suggesting that "highest Tipped" be twice as long and that "Featured" be removed? I disagree.

While I have not always agreed with the decisions for the "Featured" section, I feel that it serves a valuable purpose and should remain. Mahalo frequently tinkers with how they want to use that section, and it seems to me to be put to its best use when it features an array of interesting questions. (I'd like to see a separate area on the front page (or directing to the Mahalo category page) for community announcements or so-called meta discussions.) I would also like to see some effort put into not having the same questions featured in the first three sections.

As I type this, the "Contest Questions" are dominating the "highest Tipped" and the "Featured" sections. I am glad to see that they have somehow been kept from also dominating the "most Popular" section (some qualify by # of votes). The problems with them dominating the "highest Tipped" (at the same time they are "Featured") is that they have pushed other high-tipped Q's off the front page and have raised the minimum price to be placed in that section.

That is unfair because Mahalo controls the marketplace AND has the power of the purse. Five different Mahalo community members asked questions with what they thought were high enough tips to be on the front page. They were squeezed off by Mahalo's six contest questions (one member asked two Q's), and they are not even permitted to raise the tip amount on their Q's to get back on the front page.

Alternatively, I would suggest that if/when Mahalo decides to dominate the "highest Tipped" section, that they temporarily expand the default size of the section from the 10 highest tipped questions to, say, the 16 highest tipped Q's. However, Dave, I do not think that your idea is a good one. I think that - with tinkering - a front page balancing the pure free enterprise of the "highest Tipped" section with the wisely-used discretion of the "Featured" section is the right way to go.

Both sections ARE already featured on the Answers Front Page. Are you suggesting that "highest Tipped" be twice as long and that "Featured" be removed? I disagree.

While I have not always agreed with the decisions for the "Featured" section, I feel that it serves a valuable purpose and should remain. Mahalo frequently tinkers with how they want to use that section, and it seems to me to be put to its best use when it features an array of interesting questions. (I'd like to see a separate area on the front page (or directing to the Mahalo category page) for community announcements or so-called meta discussions.

) I would also like to see some effort put into not having the same questions featured in the first three sections. As I type this, the "Contest Questions" are dominating the "highest Tipped" and the "Featured" sections. I am glad to see that they have somehow been kept from also dominating the "most Popular" section (some qualify by # of votes).

The problems with them dominating the "highest Tipped" (at the same time they are "Featured") is that they have pushed other high-tipped Q's off the front page and have raised the minimum price to be placed in that section. That is unfair because Mahalo controls the marketplace AND has the power of the purse. Five different Mahalo community members asked questions with what they thought were high enough tips to be on the front page.

They were squeezed off by Mahalo's six contest questions (one member asked two Q's), and they are not even permitted to raise the tip amount on their Q's to get back on the front page. Alternatively, I would suggest that if/when Mahalo decides to dominate the "highest Tipped" section, that they temporarily expand the default size of the section from the 10 highest tipped questions to, say, the 16 highest tipped Q's. However, Dave, I do not think that your idea is a good one.

I think that - with tinkering - a front page balancing the pure free enterprise of the "highest Tipped" section with the wisely-used discretion of the "Featured" section is the right way to go.

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