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wladston

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Unfortunately the idea didn't catch up Sad

No one is using the site. That, with the money that I had to pay every month to keep the server up, and led me to the sad decision of shutting down the site.

I've already sent an email for everyone holding positive balance accounts, with information on how to withdraw the funds, or helping me pay the server bill.

Within one week, I'll take any bitcents remaining on the server, use them to help to pay the server bills, and shut down the site.

It has been a great learning experience to build this service. I really tried my best. Let's hope my next one doesn't fail.

Thanks,

wladston

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We just featured a new video, and now the site looks way cleaner and its also easier to use.

What do you guys think of it ?

Thanks!

wladston

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Quote from: Newar on June 08, 2012, 08:35:40 AM

Quote from: wladston on June 08, 2012, 08:17:10 AM

@Newar, yes, we are going to do just that. Also we're going to improve the tag listing on the left with a better weight algorithm. The accepting zero-confirmation feature was a HUGE work, new features should be easier to implement

Cheers. In the meanwhile I did read the thread (I know Roll Eyes

) and realised that Kansattica suggested it already.

One other thing I noticed: http://bitquestion.com/question/11 did not show up via the "Open questions" button on the top, but only via the ">" button at the search. I think it's because wladston marked it as private? Would be better if all questions available for answering would show via the green button.

Someone suggested that already, we are analysing. Our idea is to raise more attention to questions that are without answer (the green ones) over the ones that are in process of being accepted ( the orange ones). There are no private questions, they are either in the "open", "discussing" or "closed" category.

Newar

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Quote from: wladston on June 08, 2012, 08:17:10 AM

@Newar, yes, we are going to do just that. Also we're going to improve the tag listing on the left with a better weight algorithm. The accepting zero-confirmation feature was a HUGE work, new features should be easier to implement

Cheers. In the meanwhile I did read the thread (I know Roll Eyes

) and realised that Kansattica suggested it already.

One other thing I noticed: http://bitquestion.com/question/11 did not show up via the "Open questions" button on the top, but only via the ">" button at the search. I think it's because wladston marked it as private? Would be better if all questions available for answering would show via the green button.

jurgmurger

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Quote from: wladston on May 28, 2012, 08:04:20 PM

... ( check out http://skude.se/BTC) ...

Alternative faucet helper (Google Chrome): https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.927070

wladston

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@Newar, yes, we are going to do just that. Also we're going to improve the tag listing on the left with a better weight algorithm. The accepting zero-confirmation feature was a HUGE work, new features should be easier to implement

Right now we are testing answers ratings, afterwards we'll implement this feature. You'll be able to follow as many tags as you like, and also the "ALL TAGS" meta-tag, since the service doesn't have much questions now.

In the future, we are going to automatically calculate what kind of an expert each user is, based on his experience with the site.

Newar

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I would exclude tags that are formed of common words, i.e.: from

A tag cloud would be a nice thing; not just the popular ones.

How about each user could define his own tags where he considers himself to have knowledge. Say maybe max. 10 tags to prevent tagspam. Thiese then could be used to notify this user if questions with any of those tags are posted.

I.e. user ABC sets his tags for "food", "coffee" and "bitcoin". User XYZ tags his question with "bitcoin". User ABC gets an email notification with a link to that question.

wladston

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Quote from: ribuck on June 08, 2012, 07:48:55 AM

Here's a bug. If a question has two answers pending, it's not possible to reject the second pending answer (clicking the "reject" button produces a "Whoops, we just had a server error" message.

For example, I can't reject answer number 27 here:
http://bitquestion.com/question/10

That bug was introduced by out zero-confirmation changes yesterday. It's already fixed now. We apologize .. you may try again now.

ribuck

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Here's a bug. If a question has two answers pending, it's not possible to reject the second pending answer (clicking the "reject" button produces a "Whoops, we just had a server error" message.

For example, I can't reject answer number 27 here:
http://bitquestion.com/question/10

wladston

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Just released a new feature to the site -- accepting zero confirmations!

Now you can see funds posted on your account almost immediately after you send your transaction. And you can use then to ask questions!

A question created with zero confirmation funds will be on the pending state, and will not receive any answers proposals. The question will show only on the "Recent" list. After funds used to create the question have one or more confirmation, the question will automatically move to the open state as usual.

And you can only withdraw funds that have 6 or more confirmations, now.

So now it's even safer for Bitquestion, and blazing fast for all of you to ask your question!

wladston

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Quote from: farfie on June 07, 2012, 01:25:55 PM

This is nice, all it needs now is more people asking/answering questions. It's just too bad that it has to take place in a context of people that are already very intelligent, or at least on the forefront of technology and know the ways of googling to figure things out themselves. Perhaps later on, when and if bitcoin (hopefully of course!) takes off and gains a more "casual" user-base, this will become a good place for its initial users to answer questions. I definitely wish this venture well.

Also wlad, I believe you have a typo in your signature

thanks, changed my signature. Well, the site can be used by both tech people and non-tech people. What takes away the interesting questions from the frivolous ones is the bounty. Let's hope more people will use it, yes

farfie

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This is nice, all it needs now is more people asking/answering questions. It's just too bad that it has to take place in a context of people that are already very intelligent, or at least on the forefront of technology and know the ways of googling to figure things out themselves. Perhaps later on, when and if bitcoin (hopefully of course!) takes off and gains a more "casual" user-base, this will become a good place for its initial users to answer questions. I definitely wish this venture well.

Also wlad, I believe you have a typo in your signature

wladston

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Quote from: ribuck on June 07, 2012, 11:49:21 AM

I have a couple of comments.

- The "Post a comment" button would work better if it was placed after the last comment, i.e. in the place where the comment would appear

- The phrase "Without author's intervention, this question will auto-accept" would make more sense if the wording was changed to "Without author's intervention, this answer will be auto-accepted", and moved from the question box to the box of the answer to which it applies. Also, you could put that phrase into italics or into smaller type, so that it doesn't look like part of the text posted by the user.

Overall, the site seems to work smoothly.

@ribuck, thanks for your comments. The position of the post a comment button indeed could improve. Added that to our todo list.

About that warning message, we will make it clearer. We can't place it on the answer, because at that moment, the answer is private and only the person who posted the answer and the person who posted the question will be able to view the box with it. Maybe we can post the answer box, but without showing the contents if it is still private. Anyways, that is indeed something we must work on, thanks for pointing it.

ribuck

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I have a couple of comments.

- The "Post a comment" button would work better if it was placed after the last comment, i.e. in the place where the comment would appear

- The phrase "Without author's intervention, this question will auto-accept" would make more sense if the wording was changed to "Without author's intervention, this answer will be auto-accepted", and moved from the question box to the box of the answer to which it applies. Also, you could put that phrase into italics or into smaller type, so that it doesn't look like part of the text posted by the user.

Overall, the site seems to work smoothly.

wladston

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Quote from: Faisal7 on May 31, 2012, 05:31:53 PM

I created a question on there and it took two fees. I did not understand.

May 31, 2012, 1:36 a.m. Debit Question #5 -0.00090000 Created question #5
May 31, 2012, 1:36 a.m. Debit Bitquestion administration -0.00010000 Fee for question #5

also, another suggestion would be making search engine friendly URLs. rather than http://www.bitquestion.com/question/5

One transfers went directly to the Question itself, the other went to the site administration.

Quote from: ludo0777 on May 31, 2012, 11:34:13 AM

Quote from: wladston on May 28, 2012, 08:04:20 PM

Hello,

Today we are launching a service that might be interesting for Newbies : Bitquestion.

You can earn your first bitcoins by answering questions on the site, or get some free bitcoins ( check out http://skude.se/BTC) and use them to ask questions on the service.

Service url : http://www.bitquestion.com

I would love to hear suggestions, questions and comments about the service.

Not many questions on there...

we just launched

hope you remembe us and use our service when you have a hard to figure out question.

ribuck

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Quote from: Faisal7 on May 31, 2012, 05:31:53 PM

also, another suggestion would be making search engine friendly URLs

This is a common meme, but it hasn't been necessary for years. The search engines are more sophisticated than you imagine.

Sure, if you put keywords in the URL the search engines will notice these. But if you don't do that, the search engines will grab keywords from other places like headings. Keywords in the URL are at the expense of keywords elsewhere.

Faisal7

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I created a question on there and it took two fees. I did not understand.

May 31, 2012, 1:36 a.m. Debit Question #5 -0.00090000 Created question #5
May 31, 2012, 1:36 a.m. Debit Bitquestion administration -0.00010000 Fee for question #5

also, another suggestion would be making search engine friendly URLs. rather than http://www.bitquestion.com/question/5

ludo0777

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Quote from: wladston on May 28, 2012, 08:04:20 PM

Hello,

Today we are launching a service that might be interesting for Newbies : Bitquestion.

You can earn your first bitcoins by answering questions on the site, or get some free bitcoins ( check out http://skude.se/BTC) and use them to ask questions on the service.

Service url : http://www.bitquestion.com

I would love to hear suggestions, questions and comments about the service.

Not many questions on there...

petermeuris

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Nice idea

wladston

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Quote from: Faisal7 on May 30, 2012, 02:01:36 PM

Quote from: wladston on May 29, 2012, 06:03:10 PM

@TravisE : Thanks man

@Faisal7 : It's cool that you like the idea

we're waiting for your questions. About your doubts, you can withdraw from your bitquestion account at any time by providing only the amount you wish to withdraw and a valid bitcoin address. Transactions are sent out instantly. As long as you keep your password safe and protect your connection from man-in-the middle attacks, your bitcoins should be safe. We are taking all the measures we can to avoid being hacked. If the project gets popular, we'll add SSL to increase the security as well.

thanks for the reply.
suggestion I've got for you- it would be nice if there were some statistics posted like seen on the bottom of www.the99percentvotes.com

That's a good idea! Also added to out To Do. Right now our numbers aren't so impressive, so we'll leave that towards the end

Right now I'm working with bitcoind to accept zero-confirmation deposits.

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