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Good luck to you. We're in the same business, so here's some advice. The first questions on the home page will determine the tone of the subsequent users. Curr

Good luck to you. We're in the same business, so here's some advice. The first questions on the home page will determine the tone of the subsequent users. Currently, when I visited, question #2 was how to start a brothel in Nevada. If you are not careful, you'll end up like Cambrian House, with projects like "congress is corrupt, help me get rid of congress". And then what? Do not hesitate to moderate by yourself.

sgrove 18y ago
That's a very good point. Personally, when I saw this (about two hours after we opened it up), I assumed it was a prank. There were two choices - delete it, and it goes away, no harm done, but nothing gained. Or try to turn it to our advantage a bit. I decided to actually research it and come up with the best answer I could (having never considered anything brothel-related). Turns out it is legal in Nevada, and there are a number of stipulations covering it similar to New Zealand. I had no idea before. And that'll come up if someone searches for prostitution :D I think you're ultimately right, we really have to approach this in the right way to get the highest-content possible. Unfortunately, Cambrian House turned into vencorps before I had a chance to actually use them. To that end, I'm searching for people who can seed the site with high-quality questions and answers - I hope this was a high quality answer, but I have to admit it wasn't a high quality question. I'll have to take a more in-depth look at fairbusiness! Thanks for your advice.
gruseom 18y ago
If you are not careful, you'll end up like Cambrian House, with projects like "congress is corrupt, help me get rid of congress". And then what? That wasn't what killed Cambrian House. It was the idea of crowdsourced software development itself. It's as silly an idea as crowdsourced novel-writing. Even if it weren't, the overhead of co-ordinating participants would be an order of magnitude harder than just writing the system.

sgrove 18y ago

That's a very good point. Personally, when I saw this (about two hours after we opened it up), I assumed it was a prank. There were two choices - delete it, and it goes away, no harm done, but nothing gained. Or try to turn it to our advantage a bit. I decided to actually research it and come up with the best answer I could (having never considered anything brothel-related). Turns out it is legal in Nevada, and there are a number of stipulations covering it similar to New Zealand. I had no idea before. And that'll come up if someone searches for prostitution :D I think you're ultimately right, we really have to approach this in the right way to get the highest-content possible. Unfortunately, Cambrian House turned into vencorps before I had a chance to actually use them. To that end, I'm searching for people who can seed the site with high-quality questions and answers - I hope this was a high quality answer, but I have to admit it wasn't a high quality question. I'll have to take a more in-depth look at fairbusiness! Thanks for your advice.

gruseom 18y ago

If you are not careful, you'll end up like Cambrian House, with projects like "congress is corrupt, help me get rid of congress". And then what? That wasn't what killed Cambrian House. It was the idea of crowdsourced software development itself. It's as silly an idea as crowdsourced novel-writing. Even if it weren't, the overhead of co-ordinating participants would be an order of magnitude harder than just writing the system.