Scott's Ask Me Anything session:
11am AEST till late, Friday 13 February
https://www.savvysme.com.au/ask-me-anything/scotty
Looking forward to it.
Should have been advertised over here first.
Founder of OzBargain Doing an Ask Me Anything (AMA) Session
SavatteDodo on 12/02/2015 - 12:30
Last edited 13/02/2015 - 10:36 by 1 other user
Last edited 13/02/2015 - 10:36 by 1 other user
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When's the tightarse AMA?
Haha! No-one would be interested in anything I have to say. I'm actually quite boring.
You will just need to answer the questions. Easy. I would be interested.
Would you rather fight 100 duck sized horses or 1 horse size duck?
@neil: 100 duck sized horses for sure !!!! i am pretty sure i would lose …. oh look a duck sized horse .. how cute ….gets beaten up
SavvySME is an Australian small business community so I'll expect the questions there mostly from the business perspective. They probably "over-market" it to drive up hype — but the marketers do what the marketers do.
I can do an AMA here on OzBargain for more OzB related questions if you like, and we can invite notable members and merchants to do AMA sessions. How does that sound?
That would be awesome. Brilliant idea.
That sounds like a plan scotty. Please make it a time accessible to most (say around 8:00pm AEST) on a week-night.
We should get people to vote on days and time so that the AMAs are organised when most people want it on/at.
That sounds fantastic !
I have an AMA - why are our negs limited?
I guess you meant comment votes? There are those who think we should have no negative votes at all as it's an unacceptable anti-social behaviour. Others think that we should be allowed to express whatever we want including dislike, disapprove, contempt or whatever that associated with negative vote.
Both groups exist on OzBargain. Limited negative vote is currently the half-way between the two.
I'm fine with the current system but wouldn't mind the option of switching between either:
the standard anonymous 5 negs per 24 hours
or
unlimited negs but you lose your anonymity.
Some obvious troll posts* (eg. Davo93, jv) are just itching for oblivion'ing into obscurity. In an ideal world, all decent people would just ignore and move on but it's not.
Hmm…gonna go searching Ozbargain now for an 'Ignore' button…
*philosophical dilemma, 'feed the troll's little ego?'
Limiting the number of negs is fine, but only 5 per day? In my opinion that is way too restrictive. 20 is a good number :)
I get the feeling that if this was the case… people would be typing in jv in the search bar and just follow him around…
I think 5 is definitely lacking when you are in the middle of a flame war and wishing to down vote your nemesis' every single comment in the history… But then that's exactly the kind of behaviour we are trying to discourage. IMHO 5 per 24 hours is enough.
Others think that we should be allowed to express whatever we want including dislike, disapprove, contempt or whatever that associated with negative vote.
That can also be done, usually more effectively, with words though. What I find sad about the ability to neg people's comments is that you'll often see a serious discussion with genuine input by people, and they get mysterious negs without any replies explaining why they've been negged.
But there are also plenty of occasions where explaining is unnecessary, I suppose. Like if the comment which is being negged is so obviously ridiculous lol.. or that others have already negged/explained and the following people that have negged simply agree with existing replies.
I get sad when I see 'drive-by negs' sometimes. Perhaps more frustrated though. I get them too but can usually understand why I've accumulated negs (but still, some input/feedback is always nice- not for arguments sake, but rather for intelligent discussion/debate or simply the desire to understand other people's perspective and potentially learn from it / be corrected).
Anyway. Personally I don't think I even neg one comment by anyone most days. Feels so pointless and childish when it takes only a few more seconds to type out a proper articulated 'neg' equivalent.
(not saying this to try to persuade you into changing things, btw, Scotty lol. I'm just rambling. I kinda just dislike how it can seem like a tool used by people to silently gang up or bully, with the protection of anonymity. Though this is the intarwebs..)
IMHO 5 per 24 hours is enough.
I agree. But I'm also of the belief they should not be anonymous. Much like the deal neg'ing system where you must comment before being allowed to down-vote a deal, a similar system should be in place for comments.
I post a fair bit of commentary, and neg when it is warranted, IMO.
And I have never realised there is a limit!
I must be too relaxed.
oh goodness my fat fingers accidentally negged you. I am very sorry. Was actually trying to plus vote you. I don't know that I have ever (on purpose) used the neg button before. 5 is more than enough in my opinion (in my case even 1 was too many).
I'm curious to know how many people hit the 5 a day limit. Will have a play with the stats to find out.
I've never reached the limit but I guess I only neg comments that are attached to a poor negative deal vote.
considering people bandwagon neg him, 79 negs is not much for jv…
If AMA is to become a regular fixture, can we start with jv?
+10. Have a million questions for him.
My first question would be, are you a boy or a girl? During my short time at here on OzBargain, I have heard people calling jv he and she so many times, I want to know who is wrong.
JV is a 'he'
here here!
LOL. He had to choose Friday the 13th… :)
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someone asked a question about this on savvysme, really like to hear the answer from scotty
Is Ozbargain profitable enough for you to make a living?
what is the biggest income from ozbargain, is there any other income other than ads?Just answered that one.
what is the biggest income from ozbargain, is there any other income other than ads?
Well. There are affiliate links for non-logged in users. However it's still categorised as "ads".
wow, 4 full time employee, hm….google must pay ozbargain a lot
Scotty, that site isn't very good,
I couldn't just find one link to get the complete transcript of the AMA, just trying to boost their seo by putting every question on a separate thread.Can someone post the entire AMA Q & A here please if there's a link to do that and I can't figure it out.
Thanks
Scotty User profile link: https://www.savvysme.com.au/u/scotty
Also real pain to post comments, their text editor is horrible.
I agree, was difficult to follow.
I copy/pasted all the questions (I think) to a Google doc that you can view here
Why is it on on reddit.com/r/iama ? This savvysme site is terrible. Or ever just have it in a thread on here…
Would you rather fight 100 duck-sized horses or one horse-sized duck?
He's a (bargain) lover, not a fighter, so like any reasonable person would prefer to cuddle baby ducks (sometimes known as ducklings) and miniature horses (sometimes falsely known as 'My Little Pony').
Bigger Questions: Why did our freaking OzBargain Dad go down the superhighway to play with kids on another website - without even telling us?!
AND, when was the last time he read ANY OF US a bedtime story from a free Kindle e-book?? NEVER.That's when.
sniff
I will prefer the duck as I can fight and kill the duck; and then eat it for next six months. I don't have much of an appetite for horses though.
Nice. Thanks for posting this varunsic!