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I asked a question a little while ago at a small stackexchange satellite site. It got a few upvotes but no responses. I used as much bounty as I could to featur
by notafraudster 4y ago
I asked a question a little while ago at a small stackexchange satellite site. It got a few upvotes but no responses. I used as much bounty as I could to feature it. It still got no responses. I was a bit bummed they didn't refund the reputation, but whatever.
I am quite confident that a working professional could give me an excellent answer in about 2 minutes, and I have to say subjectively the question is pretty interesting (not a "how do I <x>" or "do my homework" question). It is unusually hard to Google, Wikipedia doesn't have the right information, and there's only one major enthusiast forum that might have users that know the thing. I'd be willing to pay a token amount, maybe $20, to get the answer. Not that I think $20 is worth getting out of bed for, but given you were already using a Sunday afternoon to answer a few questions, not a bad minutely wage.
I think my main concern is that such a site is likely to become essentially micro-projects, more "do this for me" than "answer my question". And I think people who are paying would be even angrier than usual if their question gets moderated away for doing this.
- upstarter 4y ago> "do this for me" VS "answer my question" The boundary is probably not always easy to define. And so I would ask myself - would there even really be a need for such a boundary? Why not simply increase the reward, if your question/problem is bigger than most?
- notafraudster 4y agoWell, in this case, you're describing Fiverr with a slightly better user interface for the hirer and an incomplete contract problem (because you expect someone to do the work before you award the payment, and also reserve the right not to award the payment). This is fine but it's basically something we already have.