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Re: Show HN: QABounty – Make money answering questions
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's right. Joel Spolsky (co-founder of StackOverflow) and others said long ago that offering people cash incentives can work against you. Some people will do quality work for free if they receive a non-monetary incentive like recognition. But when you reduce it to dollars, they can easily do the math and decide it's not worth helping you. The above-linked question about databases is a great example: it basically a…
I put this up too soon.. so I am trying to deal with scaling and some other issues right now but to briefly try to answer those questions/points.. The point is not to get anyone to be your "part time DBA" that was just some example question I came up with, hopefully to spark some kind of debate or just usage of the site. I am basically just giving someone $3 for their 2 cents on a scaling question. I think asking for…
I think that what people are trying to say is that if you do something for free, you don't really think about the time going into the answer or what kind of "service" you're providing the original commenter.
But once you incentivize it with money, you start thinking:
1. Hmm, how much am I making per hour here? How does that compare to my normal job?
2. Man, X dollars is kind of low. Do I really want to go find links and write a lot of stuff for just X?
3. I wrote a lot for Y dollars before, but this guy has a more difficult question for only X... guess I'll skip it.
4. This guy's question is something I can answer as a person who does Job Y, but if I'm doing Job Y for him, I want way more than X dollars!
Re: Show HN: QABounty – Make money answering questions
#13google answers hey?
Re: Show HN: QABounty – Make money answering questions
#14Often money is not the best motivator. Dan Ariely's research shows people who were asked to volunteer consistently put in more effort than those who were compensated with money or gifts. There's a whole chapter about social norms vs. market norms in his book: Predictably Irrational. There's a decent summary of the chapter here: [1].
[1] http://robertnielsen21.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/predictably-...
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#15Logins are not processing. Accepts login but does not change page or permissions level. Recieve "Nonce error: It looks like you don't have permission to do that." on login interactions.
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Re: Show HN: QABounty – Make money answering questions
#16Logins are not processing. Accepts login but does not change page or permissions level. Recieve "Nonce error: It looks like you don't have permission to do that." on login interactions. Edit: Refresh x3 negated above.
Caching issue.. Just disabled caching.. Site might get overloaded again now due to HN traffic but im bringing up another large instance as I type this.. (facepalm) should have prepared..
Re: Show HN: QABounty – Make money answering questions
#17google answers hey? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Answers
Apparently former Google Answers Researchers started http://uclue.com/ after Google shuttered Answers.
Re: Show HN: QABounty – Make money answering questions
#18Often money is not the best motivator. Dan Ariely's research shows people who were asked to volunteer consistently put in more effort than those who were compensated with money or gifts. There's a whole chapter about social norms vs. market norms in his book: Predictably Irrational. There's a decent summary of the chapter here: [1]. [1] http://robertnielsen21.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/predictably-...
I am hearing some very interesting points about how money could be a poor motivator or even a deterrent (it sounds like some people are saying, because it makes them evaluate the time they are spending on the question and therefore how much their time is worth)?
However in creating this I imagined a poor college kid that was stoked to get a few dollars helping another kid solve his homework.. We will see if that actually happens though..
Re: Show HN: QABounty – Make money answering questions
#19Often money is not the best motivator. Dan Ariely's research shows people who were asked to volunteer consistently put in more effort than those who were compensated with money or gifts. There's a whole chapter about social norms vs. market norms in his book: Predictably Irrational. There's a decent summary of the chapter here: [1]. [1] http://robertnielsen21.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/predictably-...
I am hearing some very interesting points about how money could be a poor motivator or even a deterrent (it sounds like some people are saying, because it makes them evaluate the time they are spending on the question and therefore how much their time is worth)? However in creating this I imagined a poor college kid that was stoked to get a few dollars helping another kid solve his homework.. We will see if that actu…
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Re: Show HN: QABounty – Make money answering questions
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's right. Joel Spolsky (co-founder of StackOverflow) and others said long ago that offering people cash incentives can work against you. Some people will do quality work for free if they receive a non-monetary incentive like recognition. But when you reduce it to dollars, they can easily do the math and decide it's not worth helping you. The above-linked question about databases is a great example: it basically a…
I put this up too soon.. so I am trying to deal with scaling and some other issues right now but to briefly try to answer those questions/points.. The point is not to get anyone to be your "part time DBA" that was just some example question I came up with, hopefully to spark some kind of debate or just usage of the site. I am basically just giving someone $3 for their 2 cents on a scaling question. I think asking for…
> The point is not to get anyone to be your "part time DBA" that was just some example question I came up with, hopefully to spark some kind of debate or just usage of the site. I am basically just giving someone $3 for their 2 cents on a scaling question. I think asking for someones opinion on scaling is a little different then asking them to be your part-time DBA.
I have ~13 years of experience. I would rather answer someone's question for free on Stackoverflow or on a Reddit subreddit than get paid.
Networking/Repuation > Beer Money.
Please don't let this take the wind out of your sales, it may work, but I'd rather give my knowledge away for free in the right forum vs a couple of bucks.