[steve8918]

I commend you for working the site, but if you want a perfectly honest answer, I think it's nothing more than a Yahoo answers, and it probably won't work the way you think it will.

A couple of points:

1) the url is way too long. People won't remember if it's "whatdoyouthinkabout.me" or "whatdoyoureallythinkabout.me" or "whatdoyouthinkaboutme.com". The name, quite frankly, is terrible and you need to think of a better name that's easier to remember.

2) When you ask 20 people for advice, you'll likely get 20 different responses. When you read through those responses, you'll naturally gravitate towards the answers that you agree with, and you'll reject any answers that you don't agree with. So honest responses probably won't make a difference.

Why do you think people with abusive spouses stay with them? Is it because they've never seen abusive relationships on TV before? It's because they're thinking "Nobody understands, it's different between us." They reject information that they disagree with, so I frankly don't think this site will be useful in its current form. It's just a repackaged Yahoo answers.

[whatdoyouthink]

1. yeah, i struggled with this one. did a poll. some agreed with you and others thought it was okay. any other thoughts on name?

2. very true

The idea is for people to be able to receive feedback and then assess the validity of that feedback by sharing it with others they trust. People receiving feedback have the option of 1. ignoring/deleting; 2. asking for more feedback from the giver; 3. asking their friends via email if it is accurate; or 4. asking people via facebook/twitter if it is accurate. So, this framework for processing the feedback gives it some added advantages over yahoo answers.

[steve8918]

1) If you struggled with it, it means you already know that the name isn't good. You have to think about the mechanics of how the name is exchanged. People need to remember the word "really" in order to get this right, which is very prone to being forgotten. Something better like "honestanswersfor.me" something like that.

2) You will quickly realize that most people ask other people for opinions, not because they want to follow any advice but because they want their feelings validated. When someone asks their bff "what do you think about my boyfriend", they don't want to hear "I think he's a douchebag" they want to hear "he seems really great." So this is why answers get rejected. "You just don't understand! When we're together, he's completely different!" Or even better "I know you're right, but...."

I don't think most people are evolved enough to really care about getting honest feedback and exploring it by forwarding it to others, etc. There is a small subsection of people that will, but chances are they already know the answer and they don't need the feedback mechanism.

There may be some incremental enhancements over Yahoo answers, but neither the core concept nor the enhancements seem very useful.

I don't want to just shit on your idea, because I know you probably put a lot of hard work into it, so I want to come up with some other suggestions. But not trying to be mean or rude, I'm not sure there's enough of an idea here to add suggestions to.

Maybe instead of having anonymous answers, why not copy threewords.me and have people give 1 or 2 word answers to respond to the question, and use their real name. That might be enough for the person to engage in a followup using your enhanced feedback mechanism.

For example, if someone asks "What do you think of my boyfriend?" and their bff says "mean", the one-word answer might have more impact than a huge paragraph filled with flowery language, and that might be enough for the question seeker to follow up with "what do you mean? did he do something?" and it's enough of an icebreaker for people to actually engage in a meaningful conversation.

I have no idea if this will actually work or get traction, but it feels like a bit of a different spin than just a Yahoo answers clone.

[rohit89]

>> 3. asking their friends via email if it is accurate; or 4. asking people via facebook/twitter if it is accurate

Assuming that the questions are personal, I don't see how the medium makes a difference. If they don't want to hurt your feelings, IMO they wouldn't say it by email/twitter etc either.