Am I being unreasonable in getting annoyed with Conundrumland questions?

I think you are being unreasonable (hey, you asked! :) I could understand the concern in the past when ConundrumLand questions would take up a large percentage of Mahalo homepage, but today for example at the most I have seen 6 out of 30 questions as ConundrumLand, that is a pretty small percentage to create a fuss about. --quote-- There is NO benefit (AND it's annoying) to answering Conundrumland questions.It doesn't benefit the MA community.

It doesn't get me any points and it doesn't get me any money. --/quote-- If you get a best answer on a ConundrumLand question you do get a M$1 tip and 16 points, true if you don't get best answer you get nothing, except for maybe the personal satisfaction that you potentially helped somebody out with their Conundrum. The MA Community most certainly does benefit - because like Twitter questions, email questions, facebook questions and anonymous questions its an alternative source of questions for Answerers and creates more opportunities for participating in the Community.

ConundrumLand, being a partner, is part of our community. It's been addressed by Mahalo staff on several occasions that if the ConundrumLand partnership is successful for Conunudrum Wines it could open up more opportunities for the Mahalo Answers community in the future. Imagine the opportunities for the the food and cooking experts here on Mahalo if the Food Network integrated Mahalo Answers on their website like ConundrumLand does.

Of course, if you don't like food, you would probably hate this, which is why Mahalo 3.0 will have more filtering options so your Mahalo Answers experience can be tailored to your interests. Thanks for your patience Matt.

Thanks for the feedback. As I mentioned in the other two or three related threads for this the Mahalo Answers 3.0 homepage which is coming in Giri, JMC.

I find that the questions on Conundrumland usually take more personal thought and creativity, and the Mahalo questions are usually more geared towards research and fact. Depending on my mood, sometimes I don't feel like doing one or the other. It took me a little practice, but eventually I noticed at the bottom of each question on the front page of Mahalo Answers, it tells you where the question came from, (conundrumland, mahalo answers) and what heading it falls under (food and drink, technology) and how many people have answered it already.

If i'm in the mood to avoid conundrumland questions, I just look a little closer before I click.

I've been annoyed about the Conundrum questions since the first week: from them taking up valuable MA room and from not being able to even sign up/in. The sign up problem was fixed. Some of the questions are interesting, but the concept doesn't do it for me.MA is growing a bit on the stale side and I'm hoping M3.0 bleeds some new life around here so I can enjoy myself and make friends and cash around here.

It is a bit unreasonable because things are sooo much better than they were and I find things with ConundrumLand completely reasonable. I am completely cool with the ConundrumLand questions because now their default tip value is one Mahalo dollar instead of three. When they were three bucks they would cloud the top of the page and require us to pay a bit more for our own questions to get some time at the top of the page and that was a bit disconcerting and expensive.

I now look at them as regular questions and the top of the page is not all jammed up with the Conundrum questions. I think the current scenario is just fine and would even like to see the team tipping feature added to the Conundrum questions so if the community wants to add value to them and keep them up on the top of the page they can.

I do not think you are unreasonable in being *annoyed* with the Conundrumland questions. However, I do find it unnecessary to broadcast your annoyance in such a way. A few points: 1.

Your disinterest in answering questions seems to have appeared way before the Conundrumland integration. 2. You CAN receive tips for getting a best answer on a Conundrumland question.3.

You can browse questions via the homepage and easily ignore those in the Conundrumland category without even clicking on the question itself. 4. What are you trying to accomplish with this question?

Do you think that Mahalo is going to rethink their relationship, which I am sure is contractual, with Conundrum, because YOU are annoyed with it? It seems somewhat narcissistic to me.5. 10 days ago, you said, "I really enjoy the questions from Conundrumland..." You also said that you are aware that the separation of questions is on its way.

mahalo.com/answers/new-features/who-thin... 6. As has already been noted, above all Mahalo is a business, whose goal is to make money. So once again, what is the purpose of this question?

The Mahalo team is cognizant of the need to separate the questions and are working on it. You already knew this, and your activity had slowed before this. So, I just don't see your motive.

On a (somewhat) related note, there is one thing about the Conundrumland connection that does bother me: When you are not signed in, the homepage screen shows a large Conundrumland banner at the top with "conundrums. " This doesn't bother me, but the Conundrums, regardless of the question, have "yes! " and "no!" boxes under them.

None of these questions are YES or NO questions!

The only reason I get annoyed with Conundromland is because I get there and can't figure out how to get back :).

No its normal to get annyed at conundromland.

I assume Mahalo is getting paid by them. I find many of their questions interesting, though I have never answered them. I don't think it's much to ask for them to put a special symbol next to those questions so we can identify they are via Conundrum Land.

Although they are usually labeled "Via CondundrumLand.

Advertising is annoying in almost any form. However, we would not have all the cool stuff that we have on the Internet without advertising. It pays the bills!

Let me put it this way: What if all the people who came to the Mahalo pages that you manage got annoyed with the ads and left you furious comments about the ads on your pages? You provide free content that they can read whenever they want. You don't force them to click on the ads or even to read the ads.

There is no way you are going to remove the ads. The ads are what pay you for managing the page. It's the same with Mahalo and their partners like Conundrum.

Partners help Mahalo pay the bills. There is no way Mahalo is going to remove the partners. Mahalo doesn't force you to answer Conundrum questions or even to read them.

Yes, I do think you are being unreasonable to complain about Mahalo's partners. Don't bite the hand that feeds Mahalo.

I'm annoyed with it. I'll be giving an answer then have difficulty signing into their system, to which I do not intend to be part of. The tab idea would be a very good solution.

And it might make mahalo more pleasant once again.

I DO NOT THINK you're being unreasonable in any way and I want to know why this question has been voted uninteresting AT ALL, let alone twice. I know full well that the "uninteresting" button IS NOT to be used as an "I disagree" button and would have thought @jason, of all people would uphold that rule. Whether people agree with your opnion on this or not, it is still a valid and interesting question.

I assume you, like me, are willing to compromise on this. There are clearly Mahalo users who like the Conundrum questions and want to answer them. There are also A LOT of Mahalo users who really don't.

For that reason, it seems so simple to me that the ConundrumLand questions should be displayed under a tab all of their own - just like the undecided questions are. They aren't even putting the little Conundrum flag thing on them any more, I wonder why that stopped? Possibly to try to convince those who aren't interested in ConundrumLand to give it a chance?

Well, I've given it plenty of chances and even got a couple of best answers there, earning me M$3 at a time. However, dipping my toe in those waters has made me realise I truly don't have any interest in those questions and I agree that they're making it difficult and irritating to wade through the list to find questions on MAHALO that I want to answer. This has been going on for too long with little or no input or response from the Mahalo staff - hopefully once I post my answer and look thorugh the others I will be proven wrong on that one.

This is the one thing that has truly frustrated me in all my time on Mahalo, simply because the staff are so helpful and considerate in EVERY OTHER ASPECT OF MAHALO but they don't seem to want to listen to us on this one.

Well, I actually quite like some of the questions there. Feng Shui question was good and others too, depends on the interest really, doesn´t it?

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.