jchubber/CareerVillage — Issue #18: Create referral function that awards points to referrer
Author: jchubber
Created: 2011-12-10 00:56:19+00:00
State: open

We want as many good answers as possible, and that means having lots of professionals posting answers on the site. One obvious solution is to try to encourage professionals to refer questions they cannot answer to friends/colleagues who can answer them. As a result, we think professionals should get points for referring a question to someone who gives an answer.

There are several ways to go about this. Here is one example: Add a "refer this question" button to each question page which generates a unique link that awards points to the original sender when it results in an answered question (similar to the structure MIT used to win DARPA's Red Balloon competition and which was subsequently used by LaunchRock to create viral lead gen pages).