Quote from: mandor on March 07, 2021, 06:22:42 PM

Since i repeatedly see "best answer", is there no "best question" selection? So the user is free to ask anything regardless the quality of the question? There should be an anti-spam filter that will reject repeated questions, or some kind of reduced in reward if asked repeatedly, of course this weakness will be exploited by people later.

Hey, thanks for your question. We thought about this for some time and we believe that it only makes sense to have "Best answer" to any question. Technically, there is no such thing as best question so our only challenge is to prevent the users from asking duplicate and non-sensical questions on answerly. We've planned 2 anti-spam strategies to this problem.

1. As soon as someone posts a question, it will be forwarded to the moderation team of Answerly. Moderation team will either approve the question or reject it. If the team decides to reject the question, they will also list down the reason for doing it. The questioner will be informed about the status of his question in the notification section.

2. If you've signed up to Answerly, you may have noticed something called "Credits". This is basically a limit to how many questions and answers a user can post. As a free user, you will get 30 credits per month, which you can use to post 30 questions, 30 answers, or a combination of both. In order to increase this limit to 100, 500 and 750 credits / month, the user will have to subscribe for the pro-membership that costs $10-30 (respectively). This will ensure safety from spam. So technically, the users cant sign-up and start posting thousands of questions because he will run out of credits after 30 questions. Also, those 30 questions will first be approved by the moderation team.

I hope this answers your query.

Quote from: Miiike on March 07, 2021, 12:43:21 PM

And ads. I see that the pro packages include a "no ads" benefit, so there is a plan to populate the site with ads. It's not something wrong, though, just pointing out the obvious.

Like @mandor, I am also curious about spam filter. One thing that keeps crossing my mind is how you plan to prevent people from abusing the system by asking "what day is today?" or "what number comes after 1?" to reap the reward.

Hey, yes there will be ads at some point. But we didn't mention it as our primary source of revenue because there has to be millions of answered questions and high amount of organic traffic before self-serving ads could be implemented on Answerly. We are sure to get there someday - but for now, we decided to overlook ads until we hit the initial milestones

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Quote from: answerly on March 07, 2021, 02:47:21 PM

Now, coming to the most important part - Who will buy the token?

Basically everyone, because you need to make User level upgrade payment in ANSR tokens. The user may use his earned tokens "OR" buy ANSR tokens from Stellar Dex.

So basically, the only use case for ANSR tokens is to purchase level upgrades on your platform? What if there's not enough interest?
What if it isn't profitable to spend your time and energy purchasing tokens to buy level upgrades? If a crypto-currency has no intrinsic value, what is it?

i guess these questions can't be answered right now. we will see the interest of people as time goes by. they need to promote it, of course. but look at how many people are using quora or yahoo answers everyday? if they found out this app that they can earn rewards, it may be attractive to them. and its value will be determined by supply and demand.

btw, ive checked your website and there are sections that still need to rectify and still some parts not covered here

Hey, That's exactly what we believe. Surprisingly, we're getting almost 33% conversion from the Search engine traffic and around 18% conversion from the overall website visitors. The new visitors are spending around 4.5 minutes on the website. These numbers look really solid at this stage. The current version of Answerly is probably the minimum usable product. This may take another 3-4 months until we make implement all planned features, removing bugs, fixing designs *where required*. Hopefully we will get there slowly.

Moreover, Answerly tokens (for now) can only be used to upgrade user level. We can't say much about the ads right now because there isn't enough content on Answerly. However, When (and if) we surpass 1 million answered questions on Answerly, we can also integrate self-serving ads where the advertisers will pay for ads through Answerly tokens. That being said, Its too soon to think about ads.