What was your very first impression of Askville, the first day you started asking, answering, meeting, playing?

When I think back, Askville seemed like a different place, with different people. I remember feeling very anonymous, and very NOT smart! Asked by Poppet!

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I actually felt confident and refreshed Confident because I had prior experience on other message boards. Refreshed because I had experience on other message boards. I came here from Yahoo!

Answers,on the recommendation of someone from Y!A. I had to invite myself back then,it was way early on. That was the first surprise.

I was used to Y! A where you could just create accounts after account. I thought that the security was way cool.

I looked around and started answering questions. At this point the community was very small,so I didn’t meet alot of people. Then I got a look at the coins.

I was like "I wonder if theyre going to be worth something"(imagine someone thinking that). I was shocked that we were allowed to post active links that directed you away from the site. Big no no in Y!A.

Many violations for me there. Shortly thereafter I met quite a few people. JDipierro was the first one that I communicated with.

I have no idea where he is now. Shortly after that,I met our lovely Poppet (). The community started to grow,but I was astounded at the answer quality.

I was almost in shock how everyone was so articulate and included so much detail. I felt smart no matter where I was,really. Sources: Askville since Nov/06 .

It took me a while to feel comfortable here too. I hang around the Amazon discussion boards some and someone from Amazon posted a link to Askville so I came over to check it out and decided that it looked interesting. Like you I felt very anonymous at first and the very first question that I asked drew a snide comment from one of the more snotty people who thankfully isn’t around anymore.

There were several people here at first that were less than welcoming in fact but most of them have just sort of nastied away and this is a much more friendly place now. Because of my early experiences here I try to be as welcoming as possible but I really think that I could do better. I still don’t feel too smart but I do feel pretty crappy.

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I felt like I was taking a risk... I remember being very anxious about submitting my first answer. I did read the FAQ and the blog before I answered a question. I also read a lot of answers so I could tell what was expected.

Even still, I was very nervous that I would be horrible at it and that I would get a low score right off the bat and be discouraged. What happened was that I got a "good", I think. That was probably the best thing.

I could see that I wasn't horrible at it, yet I knew that there were things I could do to improve so I could be a better help to people. I also remember being perplexed about the widgets, why in the world there were maps there to use and why there were a million questions about Seattle. I don't think that I even realized that there were "regulars" until I was into this a week or so.It seemed like an endless number of people.

Now it seems much more manageable. I am so glad that I stuck with it for a little while until I could get comfortable enough to enjoy it. I enjoy it greatly now.

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I remember feeling like... I remember my first thought was people must be answering questions all day. How could they possibly have so many coins when I had so few? I don’t really remember why I wanted coins, may be just because everyone else had a lot of them.

I thought I would just give it a try for a while and jumped in finding questions I thought I could answer. Looking back I got a lot of "okay" answers. And then the second week I got a red ribbon, I was so proud.

I guess I really thought I was helping. Here it is, it was a fun question to answer. Then I wondered if there were any things I was wondering about, so I tried my hand at asking some questions.

I guess I felt better answering then coming up with a question that was going to be seen by "everyone". Probably the opposite way most start out. I became hooked when other askvillers started welcoming me and sending me messages, and seeing answers close and coins start rolling in.

And that day I made L1 in my first topic. That was fun. Thanks, this was a fun question to answer.

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Nervous, somewhat exposed cos at MTurk you were anonymous... Okay, I guess I need to break down and answer this one cos I want to see the other answers! In any case... Even while hiding behind a screen name, I felt far more exposed here than I'd ever felt at MTurk. There both the answerer and the answer remained anonymous.

Actually, the one asking the question was anonymous, too, so it was sorta like operating in the shadows. All that changed here. Your answer was there for everyone to read with your name on it as the one who'd provided it.

I've got to admit, although I discovered I actually had some points when I stumbled over here from MTurk, I mostly lurked for a couple days, tho' I was surprised to find one message waiting for me in my inbox for an answer I'd provided. How cool is this, I thought, but not quite cool enough to pull me outta the shadows until I'd scoped out the place a bit more. Reading some of the answers supplied, I hesitated to reply, quite frankly.At that point, it was pretty obvious there were some here that considered Askville their turf and felt it should work one way, their way, and one way only.

Coming from MTurk where copy/paste was the norm, too, I realized I'd need to revise my technique for answers if I ever hoped to score enough coins to, uh, whatever the heck they were for anyway. Didn't know there, still don't. I'm still holding out for chocolate coins, oodles and oodles of chocolate coins!

Yet, despite the "this is the way it should be tone" of some, it was obvious that most here were mature adults and weren't really looking at this as a game. Having seen the changes in the MTurk message board community when money became involved, I feared the coins would create the same issues URL2 matter how much we protest, there's a certain element of competitiveness to most of us, even if just against ourselves, so to hope Askville wouldn't deteriorate into that seemed a dim hope. The first few answers I supplied were done tentatively, to pretty darn innocuous questions, tho' I can't recall what they were about anymore.

Since I already had points where I got here, not sure there's really any way to sort it out anyway.In any case, those answers were met with maybe not rip roaring praise, but I didn't get jumped all over, either. At some point I ventured asking a question, mostly to see how it worked, and got some good answers, so was feeling better and better. That's pretty much the point where I began to frequent the various discussion boards for questions related to Askville and the Askville Community.

Reading the questions and answers, I began to recognize names and see the consistency from them. When some got off on a "this is the way it should be" tone, I even began to see that they were willing to listen to others and even change their tone and if not their opinion, see where others were coming from. Mutual respect.

Liked it. Oddly enough, I don't think I hesitated as much about stepping into the discussions as I did the question/answer part. You'd think it'd have been the other way around, wouldn't you?

I guess cos I'm used to moderating and being a part of various other boards, but once I slipped into the door and into a shadowy corner long enough to decide I wouldn't be eaten alive if I became a part of it all, I've thoroughly enjoyed my participation. Since I came over expecting just another competitive Q/A board where everyone would be gaming for those magical, mystical coins, that was a real turn-around. So, initially hesitant, even nervous that I'd get ripped to shreds.

I also had a certain lack of confidence that my answers could measure up, tho' soon came to realize that there was nothing forcing me into discussions where I really had nothing to contribute or ones where I'd come away with my stomach tied in knots. When your known, even if only by a screen name, it's odd, but you do feel more exposed. I think that's why many of us are feeling nervous about the recent changes.

We don't know where they're leading or how it might change the community. We like reaching out to others, but without the responsibility to be here 24/7 for our "friends. " We're all wondering, what does being Poppet's friend mean?

Do we get to go to the White House with her next time? Will we ever get to read Boxing's blog? Will TeeJayCee write a book or blog?

Can we get past that somehow immediate teen age angst we had when we saw we had no friends, gasp? If I add someone to my Fav list and later remove them, will I feel guilt even tho' they should never know it happened? Can I cope with this new twist in construction here in our little Askville community?

How big an apartment complex will they have to build to hold everyone that wants to live beside Poppet? Okay, enough rambling. Sigh.

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I've just been stopped by Askville from answering any more questions because I have "too many in progress"! Why?

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