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posted by mattie_p on Wednesday February 19 2014, @01:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-really-do-it dept.

By now, you have had the chance to read the updates of both NCommander and Barrabas. Nonetheless, you may still be wondering quite a few things about the site and its staff. Here is your chance to ask us anything. These questions can be general in nature, in which case the staff will select a spokesperson to answer it, or it may be specific to an individual. If the question is for an individual, please ensure you identify that person specifically enough.

We will select the best questions from the thread and provide answers to the community. These questions may not be the highest rated, although we will probably use those first.

In keeping with tradition, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one question per post.

 
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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by johaquila on Wednesday February 19 2014, @02:36PM

    by johaquila (867) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @02:36PM (#2712)

    I am just putting this vague thought out here in case others can continue it in a useful direction:

    I really like the way Duolingo is making money (though apparently not enough yet to break even - not surprising given how fast they are expanding). They lure users into their ads-free site by offering them some of the best foreign language courses available, and make them translate the web to train their new language skills. Instead of milking or selling users in the usual way, they make them create content which some companies are prepared to buy. It's a win-win situation.

    Maybe this idea can be transferred somehow. For instance:

    I would imagine that the attention of the SoylentNews crowd will also be a pretty valuable resource. Maybe some companies would pay money for the privilege of asking us our collective opinion about some issue. Hopefully not just as a PR exercise.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Wednesday February 19 2014, @02:46PM

    by VLM (445) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @02:46PM (#2727)

    Rather than slashvertisements I would be much more tolerant of a marketing poll.

    We're thinking of entering the fashionable dog food delivery over the internet market. Do you feel our founders should be compensated:

    1) One Billlioooon dollars (twists mustache)

    2) Billions and Billions of stars, err dollars

    3) one Cowboy Neal

    Somewhat more seriously if there exists a market for extremely high end thermostats and smoke detectors I could totally see a poll to figure out if we'd pay $500 for a twitter connected garbage disposal or WTF. I could see it.

    • (Score: 1) by Jerry Smith on Sunday February 23 2014, @05:20AM

      by Jerry Smith (379) on Sunday February 23 2014, @05:20AM (#5132) Journal

      Rather than slashvertisements I would be much more tolerant of a marketing poll.

      Although the idea is good, the polls on 'that other site' have a major disclaimer, big enough to validate serious doubts.

      I'm positive towards a quick and easy kind of tipjar, via amazon or paypal.
      Make 2 options, a nice (few dollars) and a royal one (tens of dollars). The app stores have made it very easy to pay a few dollars, it's a model that could work for soylent. Make it HARD to make a payment more than once a week, to avoid hijacking or other abuse.
      Just make the 'nice' option small enough for my SO not to notice please.

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      All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
  • (Score: 2, Funny) by crutchy on Wednesday February 19 2014, @06:28PM

    by crutchy (179) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @06:28PM (#2923) Homepage Journal

    or maybe a service to help connect companies with nerds for hire

    soylent could build in some kind of feature for tipping users based on their skills (kinda like linkedin). skills could be demonstrated either by having worked with a fellow user, having used a program developed by them, having read about them in journals etc, or how they portray their knowledge/skills in solylent comments, journals and the like.

    companies could come to soylent and put a dollar offer on the table, users could accept, and soylent could provide the company with a preview of a selection of user tips for the company to review. users could also set a minimum offer and put some resume stuff in to help with the process.

    just a thought

    • (Score: 1) by EvilJim on Thursday February 20 2014, @07:26PM

      by EvilJim (2501) on Thursday February 20 2014, @07:26PM (#3867)

      Why the 'funny' mod mods?, this sounds interesting.