Should Mahalo implement an minimum participation requirement to remain a member in good standing?

" - absolutely not, any member that joins and does not abuse the system is "in good standing" there can be no other definition otherwise it becomes subjective and may include prejudices like "asks too many questions" or "asks too many questions all at once" and then too much participation would cause a member to fall from "in good standing" status. No one person is more important or "good" than another."Should the feature question be removed since it has turned into an advertising tool? " - I am with you here Dave and I feel that the democratic voting up of questions should determine what is a featured question.

As well the democratically "elected" featured questions should be at the top of the front page of Mahalo Answers.. not the highest tip. This would in effect lower the value of the "highest tip" section and therefore allow more inclusion and a lot lower prices for "highest tip" questions. "Should site advertising of businesses by members be disallowed?

" - this is already NOT allowed and would be considered spam and removed unless the question asked was in a very carefully worded way that remained objective. Terms of Service restrict users from using Mahalo Answers for promotion of any business or website except for other Mahalo pages. Even in the using of Mahalo Answers to promote Mahalo pages is considered spam and a violation of the terms of service by some users.

"Should adult content by removed and censored by Mahalo?" - I cannot stress this enough.. No content should be removed from Mahalo unless it is in violation of a law governing the country of origin of Mahalo which is the United States. A search engine NEEDS to have all topics covered.. every last topic... including adult content (definition will vary). Because a search engine that is missing content or disallows legal content is incomplete and therefore useless.

All content should be allowed and promoted if it is legal content.

My opinions: A1 (answer to Q1) No. Quite impossible to be implemented. A.

Nobody can guarantee he can participate every day. Even @jasoncalacanis and all Mahalo staffs’ account will be cancelled :-) b. There are users who choose to be less active in Answers but active in Tasks, Pages etc.C.

Even on Answer, some chooses to ask more, some chooses to answer more. D. There will be a lot of grievances on account being cancelled, disruptions.

A2 I see no wrong in “featured question”. It’s Mahalo’s right. I would think current sections are brilliant.It caters for the urgency/rich (high tipped), Mahalo’s biz decision (featured), community interest (popular), underpriviledged (new, unanswered).

The placement/sequence and amount are debatable though. A3 It’s not allowed in current TOS. Mahaloians may report it.

Actually almost every question has some form of advertising, be it products, issues or ideologies. A4 I would hope Mahalo has separate sections for family-friendly and adult contents. This would be win-win.

Youtube has such functions. Family-friendly section a. Can cater for even younger age users than the TOS allowed.

B. Users will not feel odd to share them on Facebook to family, friends etc.. Adult content (especially the hardcore content) a. Cater for these audiences.

B. Searchable but required login and with warning. The separation will also help in penetration to countries with censorship.

In reference to the first point, absolutely not - I've been here for more than a year and a half, and there are many days that I don't see any questions that interest me enough to answer (i.e. A lot of the technology and iPad questions - frankly, I just don't care) much less create ten questions that are pointless just to maintain my "good standing. " My good standing speaks for itself by being here every day and enjoying the questions I answer enough to provide quality and thought into each one.

The others, I'm not as vocal on, except the last one, and here, I agree with Budda - to have a well rounded site, even adult material should be included. I got love for you man, but I think you're just a little left of being on-base with this one, tho I understand where you're coming from. Not long ago, I asked the question of "Should we answer questions that are obviously school-work?" - I feel it's paramount to kids helping kids cheating in class, and seeing these questions bothers me a lot.

Anyhoo, I appreciate your trying to keep our community up to standard.

For me no, because mahalo is a part time recreational activity. Whether you like it or not nothings will affect you. It depends on how you make youre mahalo status be higher.

" - absolutely not, any member that joins and does not abuse the system is "in good standing" there can be no other definition otherwise it becomes subjective and may include prejudices like "asks too many questions" or "asks too many questions all at once" and then too much participation would cause a member to fall from "in good standing" status. No one person is more important or "good" than another. "Should the feature question be removed since it has turned into an advertising tool?

" - I am with you here Dave and I feel that the democratic voting up of questions should determine what is a featured question. As well the democratically "elected" featured questions should be at the top of the front page of Mahalo Answers.. not the highest tip. This would in effect lower the value of the "highest tip" section and therefore allow more inclusion and a lot lower prices for "highest tip" questions.

"Should site advertising of businesses by members be disallowed? " - this is already NOT allowed and would be considered spam and removed unless the question asked was in a very carefully worded way that remained objective. Terms of Service restrict users from using Mahalo Answers for promotion of any business or website except for other Mahalo pages.

Even in the using of Mahalo Answers to promote Mahalo pages is considered spam and a violation of the terms of service by some users. "Should adult content by removed and censored by Mahalo? " - I cannot stress this enough.. No content should be removed from Mahalo unless it is in violation of a law governing the country of origin of Mahalo which is the United States.

A search engine NEEDS to have all topics covered.. every last topic... including adult content (definition will vary). Because a search engine that is missing content or disallows legal content is incomplete and therefore useless. All content should be allowed and promoted if it is legal content.

In my opinion, asking 50 questions at a time to draw revenue is no different from a person answering one or two occasionally and drawing revenue from them. Every person adds a different flavor to the mix. I'm not going to try to ask a question about something I don't know much about just because I think it is a money making question.

I'm also not going to answer one that I can't discuss further if the asker wants to do so. Others are ok with doing both.

My opinions: A1 (answer to Q1) No. Quite impossible to be implemented. A.

Nobody can guarantee he can participate every day. Even @jasoncalacanis and all Mahalo staffs’ account will be cancelled :-) b. There are users who choose to be less active in Answers but active in Tasks, Pages etc. c.

Even on Answer, some chooses to ask more, some chooses to answer more. D. There will be a lot of grievances on account being cancelled, disruptions.

A2 I see no wrong in “featured question”. It’s Mahalo’s right. I would think current sections are brilliant.

It caters for the urgency/rich (high tipped), Mahalo’s biz decision (featured), community interest (popular), underpriviledged (new, unanswered). The placement/sequence and amount are debatable though. A3 It’s not allowed in current TOS.

Mahaloians may report it. Actually almost every question has some form of advertising, be it products, issues or ideologies. A4 I would hope Mahalo has separate sections for family-friendly and adult contents.

This would be win-win. Youtube has such functions. Family-friendly section a.

Can cater for even younger age users than the TOS allowed. B. Users will not feel odd to share them on Facebook to family, friends etc.. Adult content (especially the hardcore content) a.

Cater for these audiences. B. Searchable but required login and with warning.

The separation will also help in penetration to countries with censorship.

In reference to the first point, absolutely not - I've been here for more than a year and a half, and there are many days that I don't see any questions that interest me enough to answer (i.e. A lot of the technology and iPad questions - frankly, I just don't care) much less create ten questions that are pointless just to maintain my "good standing. " My good standing speaks for itself by being here every day and enjoying the questions I answer enough to provide quality and thought into each one.

The others, I'm not as vocal on, except the last one, and here, I agree with Budda - to have a well rounded site, even adult material should be included. I got love for you man, but I think you're just a little left of being on-base with this one, tho I understand where you're coming from. Not long ago, I asked the question of "Should we answer questions that are obviously school-work?

" - I feel it's paramount to kids helping kids cheating in class, and seeing these questions bothers me a lot. Anyhoo, I appreciate your trying to keep our community up to standard.

Asking 50 questions at once doesn't do any good. It's a form of spam, upsets users, and pushes other people's questions off the front page(s), forcing us to go digging for them. If the system for finding questions not on the first page was easier and not buggy, it wouldn't be AS MUCH as a concern, but as it is now, it is (to me anyway).

We've had great and funny questions get pushed off with very few views, to be lost and that's not right.

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.