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Archive for May 2010

Minor bug fixes

by Lawrence Krubner on May 31, 2010 (6) Comments

We are rolling out some minor bug fixes and some tweaks to the interface. Among other things, when askers are picking winners, they will now be reminded that they can divide the prize money:

(The image is from our dev site, whose database was last updated from the live site in mid-February.)
Since, often, multiple people contribute [...]

The majority of questions on our site are asked by repeat customers

by Lawrence Krubner on May 29, 2010 (0) Comments

Wow, I am surprised by this in a big way.
So far on WP Questions a total of 208 questions have been asked. When I look in the “question” database table, I see there are only 105 unique user ids.
41 customers have asked more than 1 question. So 39% of our customers are repeat customers. [...]

Is Codewi.se exploitive?

by Lawrence Krubner on May 19, 2010 (1) Comments

Over on WP Questions, rspindel created a post that raised the issues of payment and exploitation on the site:
Hello guys, nice site, this seems similar to croudsourcing/crowdspring type sits that designers are getting exploited by soliciting them to do spec work without the guarantee of getting paid for their time. There is a bit [...]

Almost no one visits WP Questions exactly 8 times

by Lawrence Krubner on May 17, 2010 (0) Comments

I am examining the statistics in Google Analytics, regarding WP Questions, and I notice this interesting pattern – there is rapid fall off in the number of visits people pay the site, and then there is a big increase. I suspect it is all the experts answering questions who show up more than 9 times [...]

What does this spam do?

by Lawrence Krubner on May 16, 2010 (1) Comments

I am curious about some of the spam we get. Someone just went to WP Questions and used the contact form to send us this spam:
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We get 5 or 6 of these a week. Someone actually took the time to fill in the captcha and send [...]

Our advertising economics

by Lawrence Krubner on May 16, 2010 (1) Comments

Would you like us to pay you so that we can advertise on your website? I’m going to explain our economics to you, so you know where we are coming from, but first, I’ll list the sites where we are currently advertising:
BuildInternet
DevSnippets
WP Shout
WP Arena
Kreative Garden
Kreative Use
DevGrow
WP Tavern
WP Garage
Skyje
WP Tavern and DevGrow are doing especially [...]

Chris Clarke helps to keep Codewi.se running

by Lawrence Krubner on May 13, 2010 (0) Comments

For a while now I’ve been meaning to post something about Chris Clarke. All of the websites of Codewi.se sit on a server run by Chris. Many times he has helped me out when I’m troubleshooting some odd issue involving Apache, or MySql, or some DNS issue, or the odd bug that seems to fall [...]

More than $4,000 has been earned by experts answering questions on WP Questions

by Lawrence Krubner on May 13, 2010 (0) Comments

I notice that we crossed another milestone today: $4,022 has been earned by experts who have answered questions at WP Questions. These are our top 5 experts, at the moment:

Michael Fields $744 earned

Buzu B $647 earned

Utkarsh Kukreti $425 earned

Erez S $301 earned

Andrzej Zglobica $133 earned

Introducing our newest website: MySql Emergency

by Lawrence Krubner on May 09, 2010 (0) Comments

Our WordPress site has paid out almost $4,000 to the various experts who have answered questions. More than 50 experts have earned money from the site.
Now we are launching our newest site: MySql Emergency.
This will be the place to go to ask or answer tough questions about SQL, or about the unique features [...]

A big thanks to all of our experts