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by rngname22 1459 days ago
Some feedback, gating asking questions to users who've logged in is good for your platform but perhaps while you're still in bootstrapping mode and trying to amass some example AMAs to point to as prior successes, you could open the question asking to just users willing to fill out a form without a login, and then you can manually filter out the spam. Then once you've proven the value prop, people will be more willing to onboard.
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appreciate that. It's something I've thought about. For this one, I received 16 questions so got a good response for one AMA. The upside of gating questions is you get to see who has asked (profile pic and name) which I feel makes it a bit more human. Agree though I'm losing a few folks who land and don't like the friction of signing up. Gus' point below is a good suggestion so that people landing can at least see questions asked rather than blank page. Thanks for your feedback.