Why do you think that Mahalo Answers is more successful/better than Yahoo Answers?

I do not think Mahalo Answers is more successful than Yahoo Answers. I think the two services do almost entirely different things with each having a different goal and manner of measuring success. I think because Mahalo Answers adds cash to the equation and actually allows users to control and have a say in the real time production of the Mahalo product that the definition of success for each website is entirely different.

Mahalo is built by us the users, profits are shared with the users.... these are things Yahoo Answers simply does not do. I think initially Mahalo Answers got off on the right foot by changing the game entirely and this has left Yahoo and others like Yahoo the choice between continuing to stagnate within their now basically closed categories or regenerate themselves as something more like Mahalo Answers in order to be successful. The path Mahalo is forging is the one to follow into new ground where new success can be gained the path of Yahoo Answers has dead ended and cannot be traveled further on without a fundamental change in the way they see the future of the product.

From my experience with Yahoo! Answers, I believe that Mahalo is more of an effective human search engine, simply because the staff are much more involved (Y! A staff are no more than moderators that delete inappropriate questions, from what I can tell) and they enforce copyright violations, sourcing, and answers that directly address the question.In addition to that, there is the Mahalo Dollars benefit, which I think gives the answering team more of a reason to thoroughly answer as best they can.

When I moved from Y! A to Mahalo, I noticed a considerable lengthening of answers - I feel a majority of Y! A answers were "um idk" or some witty remark, or even a one-sentence incomplete answer with no website or source to back up their information.

Votes were based on who was agreed with more, or whose answer was funniest - not whose contained the best information. I've always written rather lengthy and detailed answers, and I was refreshed to find my "long answer companions" here at Mahalo. :) On that note, I have no financial experience beyond the earning of the Mahalo Dollars to really give an opinion on whether or not I think Yahoo!

Or Mahalo is more successful. I lean a lot more towards Yahoo! Just because it's been around for so long, but really I don't have enough information on that to back up a concrete point.

It's simple: Mahalo offers cash and everyone loves money!

First reason Mahalo Answers is better is because it offers money, not just insubstantial points. Another thing I like is that at Mahalo you can add comments before choosing the BA. In this way, you encourage discussions on the subject, Mahalo has many other features making it interesting, for example: linking to pages, possibility to vote on a question(YA had that before abandoning for, they said, abuse), upper level users have some rights such as categorizing a question.As @potterarchy said, users are, in average, more careful about giving sources and answering.

Also, you can add photos and videos, making the postings more colourful. Yahoo is a bigger company than Mahalo, so Yahoo Answers has more users. There are more questions and answers.

But this advantage is also a disadvantage: --there are few trolls at Mahalo --you can actually talk with the staff, which is friendly; while at YA, they are inaccessible --the community can rule out those who behave badly, such as those who give pretend big tips but don't choose NBA. Mahaloans have a more active and thus responsible role in the site community.

I think Yahoo answers draws a wider demographic than Mahalo. For example, the gardening section of Yahoo answers is almost like a forum, it's so busy most of the time. I think Yahoo answers also draws a lot of very, very young people as well.

There are tons of homework type questions on there in the evenings, and a whole "gang" of people that do each other's homework. There are a lot of really immature questions about teenage relationships there too. All in all, Mahalo is much more serious, and tries to keep things on a mature level, whereas Yahoo answers (like everything else at Yahoo) has virtually no support and no moderation.So my answer really is for the very young crowd, Yahoo is best and for the more mature crowd, Mahalo is best.

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.