Ask GBAtemp is lacking...

[Deleted User]

Ask GBAtemp is a brilliant way to get Q and A done, but it isn't getting nearly as many hits as the rest of the site, I see.

This could be due to a low user uptake on it due to an even lower ratio of achievements to questions! Yahoo Answers has a clever points system in place where you can ask a question, but to keep on asking them, you need points to ask them, which can only be received by answering questions, hence a cycle.

A reward for 'most contributions monthly' or something like that can earn you an extra medal, or maybe +100 posts on the rest of the forum, or just some kind of achievements system might be rewarding as well as useful. Ask GBAtemp, I believe, has the potential to become a large gaming Q and A site.

p.s I felt seriously pitch-like writing that.

 

[ProtoKun7]

Then why do we have moderators?

 

[KingAsix]

I don't think we need to make Ask GBATemp anything like Yahoo Answer....Yahoo Answer is full of bull crap. I hated to get answers that 1)weren't answers or 2)were people trying to be a smart-ass. So far I have yet to see that on Ask GBATemp.

I think a reward system would be bullshit and of course Ask GBATemp is new so there are a bunch of things that could be worked into it....but that's with anything new.

 

[Infinite Zero]

people in yahoo answers just posted ridiculous answers to get points even if it doesn't help at all.

 

[monkat]

people in yahoo answers just posted ridiculous answers to get points even if it doesn't help at all.

NOT TRUE!
MY HOW IS BABBY FORMED GOT ANSWARD RIGHT WAYS!

 

[KingAsix]

people in yahoo answers just posted ridiculous answers to get points even if it doesn't help at all.

NOT TRUE!
MY HOW IS BABBY FORMED GOT ANSWARD RIGHT WAYS!

Ugh....imma response to what I think you just said....You may get decent answer on Yahoo Answer but depending on the caliber of the question...you'll go through a lot of stupid ones....and then people other than the person asking the damn question get to vote on which was the best answer...Which sometime is a dumb answer.

 

[monkat]

Are you high, young man?

The young tempers these days...just...don't understand.
I try, and I try, and I try, but you just don't recognize when I'm not being serious.

I put things in caps. I "yell" incoherently, throwing typos around. I even add a popular (yet outdated) meme!

I just...I don't know what to do anymore...

 

[Deleted User]

I tried one answer, I got the good answer. Enjoy. @Monkat {insert meme here} :3