As part of the karma kontest, Joe and I had a little one-on-one challenge to see who would accumulate more points on the buzz page for the period of a week.We let the members pick, and they voted he jump in a lake. Considering we’re in Canada,...
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(original title was deemed ‘too sensational’ by readers)Let’s prove this point with a small, real life case study.At the start of November I launched a contest to promote our new buzz section. We gave away a bunch of prizes, including...
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Last week we kicked off our Karma Kontest on the Buzz page with much fan-fare (and an extremely successful twitter early bird draw). We had thousands of entries for the early bird draw and quite a bit of stiff competition for the larger prizes offered on.
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{"title":"Karma Kontest Winner Round-up","post_url":"http:\/\/www.whydowork.com\/blog\/wdw-insider\/1329\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/whydowork-blog","author":null,"date":"2009-11-09 08:13:03","summary":"Last week we kicked off our Karma Kontest on the Buzz page with much fan-fare (and an extremely successful twitter early bird draw). We had thousands of entries for the early bird draw and quite a bit of stiff competition for the larger prizes offered on."}

A few weeks ago we decided to take a closer look at a reputation system for members at WhyDoWork. After much thought, we settled on a simple (+)(-) for all posts in the forums. If members want to show their appreciation or alternatively distaste for a...
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{"title":"Karma Kontest Starts Today!","post_url":"http:\/\/www.whydowork.com\/blog\/wdw-insider\/1324\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/whydowork-blog","author":null,"date":"2009-11-01 16:36:40","summary":"A few weeks ago we decided to take a closer look at a reputation system for members at WhyDoWork. After much thought, we settled on a simple (+)(-) for all posts in the forums. If members want to show their appreciation or alternatively distaste for a..."}

Yesterday, WhyDoWork.com was taken down by a group of hackers.  We were the next target on their list after crashing a large children’s website where the main page was replaced with some choice profanities. This particular group seeks out...
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