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How long would it take you to reach Level 6? The only way I can see using the bonus feature and making it worthwhile would be to level up as quickly as possible in the "askville bonus" topic. What do you think?

3 answers - asked 20 months ago

Let's face it, 9 out of 10 of these BONUS questions are stupid. Let's make fun of them. Come up with questions that are even more ridiculous than the real Askville BONUS questions.

2 answers - asked 19 months ago

I never think much of the name "askville", you know......

2 answers - asked 18 months ago

I propose that we all make a concerted effort to answer these inane and virtually unanswerable spam bonus questions, especially in topics like politics and science, where the questions have absolutely nothing to do with the topic.

We should be extremely generous with one another and always award maximum points in order to "penalize" Askville for inflicting these garbage spam questions on us.

It's not like Askville gold is real money.

Let's start by cleaning up science, where less than 4% of the questions are from actual live users.

1 answer - asked 19 months ago

This morning's count (topic page method):
Questions Needing Answers: 1,601,300
Questions With Answers: 26,400
Total: 1,627,700

I was late with the totals last week, so this means we've had nearly 60,000 new ones added in only the last 4 days. 695 BQs have been answered and closed in that time, so people are still going for the easy gold.

Seeing what transpired over the weekend, I am calling on the Askville Team to come clean about these things. Enough is enough.

1 answer - asked 14 months ago

Some of you know that I have been periodically counting the Bonus Questions on the topic page for them: http://askville.amazon.com/askville-bonus/Topic.do?tag=askville+bonus. When I've posted the results, I have mentioned only the unanswered ones. Today, I counted the ones that have answers, and came up with the following:

Answered BQs: 20,100
Unanswered BQs: 986,950
Total: 1,007,050

That's right Askville! over 1 Million Bonus Questions have now been asked! How should we celebrate this occasion?

3 answers - asked 16 months ago

...or a dismal failure?

Once again, Askville is "in the news" as a source of information, thanks to the Bonus Questions:

'"In addition to overseeing the over-the-top, effects-heavy stage show for his comeback shows at the O2 Arena in London, Michael Jackson also completed a mysterious video production known as the 'Dome Project' two weeks before his death on Thursday," according to Associated Press reports. Further information on the "Dome Project" is reported at the MTV, Askville, and Mondome sites.'

http://www.examiner.com/x-7160-Sacramento-Nutrition-Examiner~y2009m7d1-Autopsy-details-report-of-Michael-Jackson-leaked-to-London-newspapers

The Askville link takes you to this question:

http://askville.amazon.com/Dome-Project-Michael-Jackson-finish-died/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=54775933

How is this helpful to anyone?

1 answer - asked 7 months ago

I have.

What do you think about the Askville bonus questions now?

Has anyone seen one that has more then two answers?

5 answers - asked 20 months ago

missing from the bonus questions (and they appear to be recycled or 'real person' questions). I am rubbing my eyes in disbelief. Consider the repercussions of not having the 'askville bonus' topic on every bonus question. Or the repercussions of having a real person asking and rating a question. If this isn't a dream, Hooray! Is it a dream?

1 answer - asked 15 months ago

... singling them out as presumably worthy of bonus gold acquisition?

Inquiring minds want to know. (They also want to puke.)

2 answers - asked 20 months ago

I am talking about the following blog entry:

http://askville.typepad.com/askville_blog/2008/08/bonus-questions.html

Please read the DB!

Accepting answers - asked 18 months ago

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Accepting answers - asked 14 months ago

We should also congratulate Yankeeman and Mamasu who are tied with him at 7 points each. Askville Bonus seems to be the new hot topic and they are clearly in the lead.

A question, how do they decide who is number 1 when all 3 have 7 points?

Accepting answers - asked 20 months ago

Several questions appear to be asked, answered and closed at same time

Accepting answers - asked 7 months ago

THEY DON'T APPEAR ON THE BOARD! Yes, I was shouting! Please, goldie, everyone, don't answer the bonus questions. They they simply don't appear on the Askville board. Wouldn't that be a nice change????

Accepting answers - asked 15 months ago

Yesterday during dinner my son and I started talking about the bonus questions on Askville. After a bit he offered this suggestion. Since the questions are being generated with a specific key word with many of those key words coming from topical news and popular culture stores, it is possible that the bonus questions are intended to increase askville.amazon.com rankings on search engines. Specific key words will cause this site to appear when an average person does a google search or yahoo or whatever search engine a person uses. The sole purpose of the bonus questions is to increase visibility for Askville across the web and it doesn't matter if the questions are answered well or not. What matters is that the correct key words appear.

What do you think?

Accepting answers - asked 20 months ago

Instead of sending the Team a "message" AGAINST Bonus Questions--all of you who are participating in this "farce" are doing exactly what the Team has been DREAMING of!

The more Bonus Questions that get replied to via Answers (no matter how "snarky" the Answers may be), the more Askville's numbers get built-up in order to attract more advertisers and more revenue!

That's why they haven't been "moderating" to speak of these days--they WANT Askville to become so unpleasant that us "old timers" who like to "chat" on the DBs will LEAVE--precisely so Askville can basically become what your "farce" is making it today: nothing but page after page of endless Questions with Answers (preferably without DBs)--no matter how "stupid" the Questions or Answers may be!

Despite sympathizing with your motives, I don't think that you realize that you're giving the Team EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT!

Accepting answers - asked 15 months ago

Why does it need to be a Bonus Question? Please ask Askville and Amazon to stop the Bonus Questions. --pseudotsuga

Accepting answers - asked 18 months ago

From the blog (http://askville.typepad.com/askville_blog/2008/08/community-guide.html):
"One final note: Although we love Askville dearly and would do it voluntarily as all of you do every day, we also need to generate profits for Amazon. Askville's business model is tied to generating revenues based on the content that is created on this site. Content includes questions, answers, discussion posts, and even bonus questions. We will try our best to keep a balance between maintaining a healthy community while also generating profits for Amazon."

Can someone explain to me how this can be accomplished? Is someone buying questions, answers, or discussion posts? If so, who? What are they doing with them? Is the attribution to Askville, or do the content creators get any attribution?

Is there some way that the content creators can share in real dollar income? Or even better, in reputation?

Accepting answers - asked 18 months ago

And I sure would like the editing feature on the bonus questions removed as well... come on Mayor, I like Askville and have a lot of friends here and hate seeing all this...

Accepting answers - asked 19 months ago