Hi Askville,
Hope everyone is having a great beginning to the new year! We've been heads down working on lots of very cool features for the community. One of them we just released. It's the Askville Town Square!
Askville TownSquare
The Askville TownSquare will be a permanent part of the Askville community. It will be a place where we invite some well known folks from the outside world to participate in all the fun that goes on in Askville while answering and asking questions to the community! To kick start the TownSquare, we've invited 5 best-selling authors who have written some great books in the area of Love and Relationships. The 5 best-selling authors are:
- John Gray, PhD, author of Why Mars & Venus Collide: Improving Relationships by Understanding How Men & Women Cope Differently with Stress
- Dr. Gary Chapman, author of The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate
- Harville Hendrix, PhD, author of Getting the Love You Want, 20th Anniversary Edition: A Guide for Couples
- Dr. Emerson Eggerichs, author of Love & Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs
- Monica Mendez Leahy, author of 1001 Questions to Ask Before You Get Married
There are some special rules and dates for this event:
Stage 1 (Feb. 4th - Feb. 8th) - Each user can submit one question to the panel of best-selling authors. All questions must be submitted by midnight, Friday, February 8th. You will be allowed to ask questions anonymously for free (i.e. no quest gold will be taken from you). All users can vote on their favorite questions. Users can also post comments on any question on the discussion board.
Stage 2 (Feb 9th - Feb 13th) - We will submit the most popular questions to our panel of best-selling authors. Each author will submit answers to questions they feel they can answer.
Stage 3 (Feb 14th) - We will reveal all answers that were submitted by the authors for the entire community to read.
NEW FEATURES
We've launched some new features associated with the TownSquare. All of these features will eventually be available throughout the rest of Askville:
Edit Your Question - You can *finally* edit your questions after you've submitted it! So long as no one has started answering your question. So if you've made a typo or need to re-phrase your question, go ahead. After you submit your question, you'll notice a "Edit your question" button right below your question. Just click on that, and a popup window will appear where you'll be able to edit your question and details. Remember, you can do it so long as no one has started working on answering your question.
Vote on Questions (Coming Soon to Askville) - You'll notice on all questions posted in the TownSquare that you can vote on the ones you like. We will be introducing this feature on Askville as well. When we introduce this feature on Askville, it will help us determine what types of questions you like to see on Askville. We are working on ways to improve how members of the community can "filter" questions based on the type of content they like to see and what type of content they don't like to see. Voting on questions will be one of several inputs to determine which questions you'll see when you visit Askville. We'll explain more about this feature when it is released. In the interim, vote on your favorite questions in the TownSquare. The panel of best-selling authors will only submit answers to the most popular set of questions asked.
We hope you like some of these changes and we hope you'll find the TownSquare fun and rewarding. Feel free to send us feedback and give us suggestions on who else you'd like to see come visit us in Askville's TownSquare!
Update on Tshirts/Mugs
We wanted to give everyone a quick update on the status of everyone's t-shirts and mugs. We've had some delays with our mug/t-shirt distributor. We hope to get everyone's t-shirt within the next 7-10 days. Afterwards, we will then mail them out to you as quickly as possible. Sorry for the delay and thanks for everyone's patience. For those who recently ordered a mug or t-shirt, the AskvilleMayor will be sending you a private message for your shipping address. He's a bit behind schedule and he wants to apologize for his tardiness in this matter.
Thanks,
-The Askville Team
