Rugatu Q&A Community - Revision history

Paraipan at 13:25, 27 July 2012

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	=Description=		=Description=

	Rugatu is a Question and Answer site, where the asker offers a bitcoin reward to the person who will give the best answer. Like in most ~~of the paid~~ Q&A ~~site the questions are prepaid~~, so the winner is sure to get his reward. There is a voting system, but to prevent vote spamming, the best answer is determined only by the person who asks. A system of reputation (karma) points, independent from the reward system, is used to represent the commitment of each user in the community. You get karma by voting/being voted, and it grants you some privilege (commenting, editing, down-voting...)		Rugatu is a Question and Answer site, where the asker offers a bitcoin reward to the person who will give the best answer. Like in most other Q&A sites, with an economic incentive, the winner is sure to get his reward. There is a voting system, but to prevent vote spamming, the best answer is determined only by the person who asks. A system of reputation (karma) points, independent from the reward system, is used to represent the commitment of each user in the community. You get karma by voting/being voted, and it grants you some privilege (commenting, editing, down-voting...)

	=Specific use cases=		=Specific use cases=

Paraipan at 20:27, 7 July 2012

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	For example, you could see an unanswered question worth 20 mBTC. You know the answer, but think it deserves more. You could post a comment and tell the asker to raise the reward. Then, the asker can do the raise or wait for another user that could give the answer immediately for the initial reward.		For example, you could see an unanswered question worth 20 mBTC. You know the answer, but think it deserves more. You could post a comment and tell the asker to raise the reward. Then, the asker can do the raise or wait for another user that could give the answer immediately for the initial reward.

	You can donate to a question even if you are not the original asker. This feature allows a specific use of Rugatu ~~(see below: crowd-funding)~~		You can donate to a question even if you are not the original asker. This feature allows specific use of Rugatu to help solve a question if is of importance to other members at the same time.

	=Community=		=Community=

Paraipan at 19:01, 7 July 2012

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	==Collaborative work platform==		==Collaborative work platform==

	~~There~~ is ~~currently no possibility~~ to split the reward of ~~a question between many answerers (though this feature seems to be [http://rugatu.uservoice~~.~~com/forums/165024-general/suggestions/2936860-add-a-flattr-like-option in the works])~~		If a user who answers a question was inspired by a previous answer, he can publicly announce he will share the reward. If the reward goes to that user, he has to make the transaction manually, to the previous answerer. The first weak point of that method is that the public announcement can not be guaranteed. The second weak point is that the asker is not the one who decides to split the reward, it is the winner of the reward.

	~~But one can still do it manually. If a user who answers~~ a question ~~was inspired by a previous answer, he can publicly announce he will share the reward~~. ~~If the reward goes to that user, he has to make the transaction manually, to the previous answerer~~. ~~The first weak point of that method is that~~ the ~~public announcement can not be guaranteed (the sharer could lie~~)~~. The second weak point is that the asker is not the~~ one ~~who decides to split the reward,~~ it ~~is the winner of the reward~~.		There is currently no possibility to split the reward of a question between many answerers (though this feature seems to be [http://rugatu.uservoice.com/forums/165024-general/suggestions/2936860-add-a-flattr-like-option in the works]), but one can still do it manually.

	Examples of collaborative work:		Examples of collaborative work:

Paraipan at 18:32, 7 July 2012

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 Rugatu is a Question and Answer site, where the asker offers a bitcoin reward to the person who will give the best answer. Like in most of the paid Q&A site the questions are prepaid, so the winner is sure to get his reward. There is a voting system, but to prevent vote spamming, the best answer is determined only by the person who asks. A system of reputation (karma) points, independent from the reward system, is used to represent the commitment of each user in the community. You get karma by voting/being voted, and it grants you some privilege (commenting, editing, down-voting...)
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 However, Rugatu is currently not very practical for this use. The admins have to manually operate on the question, to attribute the funds. The time limit is not shown, which is not a problem for a simple question, but a problem for crowd funding. There is no clear difference between real questions and crowd-funding questions. The donators are not publicly listed, so they can not get any fame or karma from the community for their funding action. An improvement of the site interface would be needed, to get the true potential of a crowd-funding platform.
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Paraipan at 17:45, 7 July 2012

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	Rugatu is a Question and Answer site, where the asker offers a bitcoin reward to the person who will give the best answer. Like in most of the paid Q&A site the questions are prepaid, so the winner is sure to get his reward. There is a voting system, but to prevent vote spamming, the best answer is determined only by the person who asks. A system of reputation (karma) points, independent from the reward system, is used to represent the commitment of each user in the community. You get karma by voting/being voted, and it grants you some privilege (commenting, editing, down-voting...)		Rugatu is a Question and Answer site, where the asker offers a bitcoin reward to the person who will give the best answer. Like in most of the paid Q&A site the questions are prepaid, so the winner is sure to get his reward. There is a voting system, but to prevent vote spamming, the best answer is determined only by the person who asks. A system of reputation (karma) points, independent from the reward system, is used to represent the commitment of each user in the community. You get karma by voting/being voted, and it grants you some privilege (commenting, editing, down-voting...)

	=~~Compared~~ with paid Q&A sites=		=Comparing with other paid Q&A sites=

	==Low fees==		==Low fees==

Paraipan at 16:57, 7 July 2012

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 You can donate to a question even if you are not the original asker. This feature allows a specific use of Rugatu (see below: crowd-funding)
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 http://www.rugatu.com/questions/947/if-you-think-that-you-are-good-in-physics-solve-this-one

Paraipan at 16:46, 7 July 2012

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	Getting custom help for any problem one may have, in one place and reasonably fast, without the need to spend hours or even days documenting the issue and then searching for solutions.		Getting custom help for any problem one may have, in one place and reasonably fast, without the need to spend hours or even days documenting the issue and then searching for solutions.

	==Freelance ~~Job platform~~==		==Freelance job board==

	Instead of asking questions, one could ask for a job to be done. The advantages compared to existing job-platform sites would be very low fees and no taxes.		Instead of asking questions, one could ask for a job to be done. The advantages compared to existing job-platform sites would be very low fees and no taxes.

Paraipan at 16:46, 7 July 2012

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	=Specific use cases=		=Specific use cases=

	==Specialized answers=		==Specialized answers==

	Getting custom help for any problem one may have, in one place and reasonably fast, without the need to spend hours or even days documenting the issue and then searching for solutions.		Getting custom help for any problem one may have, in one place and reasonably fast, without the need to spend hours or even days documenting the issue and then searching for solutions.

Paraipan at 16:45, 7 July 2012

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	=Specific use cases=		=Specific use cases=

			==Specialized answers=

			Getting custom help for any problem one may have, in one place and reasonably fast, without the need to spend hours or even days documenting the issue and then searching for solutions.

	==Freelance Job platform==		==Freelance Job platform==
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	In the logo example, the winner won 5 BTC, and is supposed to have given 2.5 BTC to another contributor. (Which may be true, because this contributor commented the question, after it was closed, and did not say he did not receive bitcoins). The admins of the site also decided to give a second price of 1 BTC to a third contributor.		In the logo example, the winner won 5 BTC, and is supposed to have given 2.5 BTC to another contributor. (Which may be true, because this contributor commented the question, after it was closed, and did not say he did not receive bitcoins). The admins of the site also decided to give a second price of 1 BTC to a third contributor.

	==~~Bitcoin crowd~~-funding==		==Crowd-funding with bitcoin==

	If you have a project and need initial funding for it, you can present it as a question in Rugatu. Thanks to the feature of adding donations to a question, other users can give funds to your project. Discussing about the project is made via the answers and the comments.		If you have a project and need initial funding for it, you can present it as a question in Rugatu. Thanks to the feature of adding donations to a question, other users can give funds to your project. Discussing about the project is made via the answers and the comments.

Paraipan at 16:39, 7 July 2012

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	Rugatu is a Question and Answer site, where the asker offers a bitcoin reward to the person who will give the best answer. Like in most of the paid Q&A site the questions are prepaid, so the winner is sure to get his reward. There is a voting system, but to prevent vote spamming, the best answer is determined only by the person who asks. A system of reputation (karma) points, independent from the reward system, is used to represent the commitment of each user in the community. You get karma by voting/being voted, and it grants you some privilege (commenting, editing, down-voting...)		Rugatu is a Question and Answer site, where the asker offers a bitcoin reward to the person who will give the best answer. Like in most of the paid Q&A site the questions are prepaid, so the winner is sure to get his reward. There is a voting system, but to prevent vote spamming, the best answer is determined only by the person who asks. A system of reputation (karma) points, independent from the reward system, is used to represent the commitment of each user in the community. You get karma by voting/being voted, and it grants you some privilege (commenting, editing, down-voting...)

	=Compared with ~~other~~ paid Q&A sites=		=Compared with paid Q&A sites=

	==Low fees==		==Low fees==