We're pausing Mahalo Answers this Friday?

I didn't expect to hold the title of the "person to earn the most money on Mahalo Answers" for ever. I value the questions that I answered and the people I came to know. Mahalo Answers was a revolutionary product and when combined with Jason's original "trifecta of search" formed a truly enlightened product.

From my perspective, the strength of Mahalo Answers was that it brought depth, complexity and engagement to Mahalo as a whole. It's easy to look back and draw conclusions about why Mahalo Answers failed. It's a lot more valuable to think about what it did right.

Between forming the heart-and-soul of Mahalo's community to blazing a new path by attaching tangible value to questions and answers, in it's day, Mahalo Answers had a heck of a lot going for it. In particular, Mahalo Answers devised a way to exchange knowledge for a tangible reward. In an age of Farmville's, think about how powerful and valuable that is.

Also, at one time, Mahalo Answers had formed a reliable, concrete system to identify and vet the most powerful people on the Internet (content creators) by focusing their efforts on community building and trust. This is no small feat and the machine that Mahalo had at it's disposal had an incredible amount of promise. Again and for the last time, thanks Mahalo.

Too bad things have worked out this way. I loved the Q&A section of Mahalo, as well as I did the Page Management last year. I wish Mahalo all the best in their endeavours with (how to) videos.

I hope it works out! Bye all, and thanks for all the fish! youtube.com/watch?v=ojydNb3Lrrs.

Better not turn off Q&A for long. People might leave Mahalo. And the people who join during The Pause won't know what to do.

While trying to keep up Q&A and video stuff at the same time might be a bad idea, turning off Q&A for a significant amount of time will dissolve the community, and that's even worse.

Should there not have been more of a soft landing for the Mahalo answers community?. As Youtube has an active community of volunteers whereas the Mahalo videos seemed much more limited and less open to community.

As someone who recently discovered the magic that Mahalo Q&A(MQ&A) offered, I must say I'm sad to see it going for a few core reasons among many others as well... The first being the obvious aforementioned reason of my having only gotten to enjoy being part of MQ&A for such a short time. My first, and very good quality in my humble opinion, answer to a Question was literally just under a day ago. I was looking forward to becoming part of it's community of people who take interest in sharing quality answers and advice to the endless line of questions life can throw at us all from day to day.

The second reason I find it disappointing that MQ&A is to be no longer would most definitely have to be the fact that it was the only tangible model of user driven knowledge sharing, that anyone has ever seen thus far in the world, worthwhile to its user community to take part. To be genuinely rewarded monetarily for participation as you simultaneously got to feel good for sharing your time and knowledge to educate others within the community was a definite win/win scenario. Yahoo!

Answers and other sites such as eHow etc etc just don't have the same model to enjoy nor apply ones time within. The final core reason for one to shake their head at MQ&A leaving us is the fact that it is more than likely what drove most of us to Mahalo in the first place. To know the search site had that at it's core model of functioning as a community made it something entirely different and worthwhile in light of all the other fly by search engines and how to sites out there.

Most of which are plagued with ridiculous or worse yet obvious and blatantly rude and/or misleading answers to questions that people are genuinely seeking knowledgeable answers and guidance. This community provided that model of trust and reliability better than the rest. Now, for most likely reasons of Mahalo being unfortunately unable to make this user driven business model work well enough monetarily in this profits over people - short sighted - near zero long term thinking - greedy world us humans all live in, it's gone.

The MQ&A gave me the reason to become part of Mahalo and give it a chance along with other promising new search engines out there that are trying to set themselves apart from the average Goo that we've all been stuck in for so long. I'm not an employee or affiliated in any way with the search engine DuckDuckGo. Com but it is another fairly new one that I highly recommend if you're looking for something unique, different and better to go along with Mahalo.com.

I've personally been using it for a couple months now and it has some serious advantages over the Goo puddle. In closing I'll just say this...Mahalo, please do not give up on MQ&A as it is your community and it can work. I truly believe that it can work.It just needs more time, more publicity and more fine tuning.

More long term thinking applied to it. If you don't continue with it's game changing model, someone else will. Thanks for trying and here's to it not dying.

Cheers!

Thanks Mahalo, Mahalo Answers and Jason and team. I've enjoyed every minute of being a part of this venture; being a community member and creating content. Just wish I'd eeked out even a 'brown belt'...Namaste.

@hillo.

Too bad that it doesn't generate enough to be sustainable. I liked being active here so I would like to thank you for the opportunity to be active on "answers". I liked the "Go live" function very much (when it worked ;) ) Good luck with the video content!

Greetz from The Netherlands.

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