Yedda complements forums by providing a richer, more efficient and easier to use experience when it comes to questions and answers.
Some key differences when asking a question:
- One stop shop - in Yedda, you don't have to search for a specific forum to place your question in. All your questions, on all topics, can now go through a single point of entry.
- Classification - when you enter a question, we suggest some topics with which you can classify your question. Once you do that, people who are interested or knowledgeable about these topics will not only be able to locate your question quickly, but will automatically be exposed to your question.
- Proactive - forums follow the bulletin board model, where newer posts (questions) take the place of older ones, which scroll down the list and disappear from public attention. In a busy forum, this could happen very quickly. In Yedda, as long as you keep your question open, we continue to search for an answer for it, exposing it to more and more relevant people who may be able to answer.
Some key differences when answering a question:
- Less noise - once you define the topics you're interested or knowledgeable about, Yedda highlights to you questions related to these topics, so you don't have to wade your way through a large number of unrelated questions. If you opt to allow Yedda to send you invitations directly, we'll invite you only to questions which we think you'd be interested at. As you use the system, Yedda attempts to learn from your choices and adjust the questions it suggests to you.
- Reputation - as you answer questions, your reputation in your specific areas of interest and knowledge accumulates, and can be presented outside Yedda, on any editable online presence that you control (blog, web site, etc.)
There is quite a bit more, which I hope you will find out about as you continue to use Yedda.
