How come the amount of default tips on the questions went down from 50 cents to 25 cents?

Sadly, this happens all the time, and both ways, without any announcement. Obviously, Mahalo is experimenting with their pricing system, like they have been doing before also. They shortly increasing the price from 0.25 to .50, and now back again.

I think we'll see some more price changes in the near future. (hopefully not downwards...).

It seems that the price of the answers fluctuated over time. See @buddawiggi answer to this mahalo.com/answers/mahalo-answers-commun... Only 3 days passed with .50 cents questions.

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