[luisamodio]

Hello!

To your first question, yes! The compensation paid is a dynamic fee determined by the score (karma of a kind) a user has.

There was a previous question on this page asking what determines quality. And fundamentally it is the fulfillment/satisfaction of the needs of the person who asked.

So people who give better answers on a consistent basis will earn more than people who don’t. This creates a virtuous cycle.

As for answers that are either trash or offensive, there is an extremely-viusal “report” button on every answer that if hit immediately triggers an investigation. If found true, you’ll get refunded for that answer and the offender will be drastically punished if not banned as there is minimal tolerance for this.

Finally, some examples are: -Sourcing ideas -Depression, anxiety, and loneliness advise -Love life & relationship advise -Embarrassing situations advise -Parenting advise -Feedback on content before posting on social media (content creators or public figures for example…) -Product / service feedback Market research -Difficult life situation advise -Important decisions advise -Curious questions -Random questions -Sourcing memes or jokes -Trivia

And honestly many more, it’s up to peoples creativity as the platform provides much flexibility.

Hope this helps and thank you so much for asking!

[phailhaus]

> And fundamentally it is the fulfillment/satisfaction of the needs of the person who asked.

Do you mean that the thrower gets to decide which answers are "quality" and deserve a payout?

> If found true, you’ll get refunded for that answer

This seems to imply that throwers will be automatically charged for any catchers before they've decided it's useful, which sounds like a huge problem.

[luisamodio]

The thrower gets to asses if the answer was a good one, or a bad one or just mediocre. This has no effect on deserving a payout as long as there was a genuine effort to respond the question. It does however influence the scoring (karma) system with which the catcher is directly compensated.

The general rule is that answers that are subject to refund are answers that fall into 2 categories 1) it’s gibberish/trash/unrelated content (for example someone that repeatedly copy-pastes the same paragraph with no relation to the question hoping to earn money), and 2) offensive content (anywhere from trolling, racism, misogyny, etc).

As for your second claim, yes, you pay regardless if you find it useful (unless of course it’s any of the two categories I previously mentioned).

And the reason for this is because getting a large pool of diverse and unbiased data puts you on a better informed position and may open your eyes to angles you wouldn’t have considered otherwise. Regardless if you dislike them or disagree with them.

You’re not always going to hear what you want to hear…

[phailhaus]

If a catcher spams your service with thousands of just-barely-relevant replies, they'll always get paid? Is there any karma level at which the catcher flat out is not paid?

[manx]

Who does the investigation, e.g. if an answer is offensive?

[luisamodio]

Simplified, the way this works is the question and the answer get packaged inside a new question that is asked to a number of people just as if it were a normal question with a yes or no poll.

“Is the response to this question offensive?”

(Yes it is offensive / no it is not offensive)

So, in short, a crowdsourced jury!

[manx]

Great Idea to reuse the q/a system for that! Is there also a payout for those who answer that question? Is it a yes/no question with majority decision?

[luisamodio]

Yes correct!