Using Doxory

What kinds of questions can I ask?

The best kinds of questions to ask are existential dilemmas. What should I do with the next five years of my life? Go to grad school or Join the circus? It's also useful to ask about what to have for dinner. Pizza or Chinese? There are better places to ask people if they think you're cute or whether tonight is a full moon. Livejournal's good for that.

Who can see my questions?

Everybody.

Who can vote on my questions?

Everybody.

Who can see my answers?

Everybody.

What if I ask abusive or spammy questions?

About 12 hours after we announced Doxory, some ignorant jerk posted the first dilemma-spam. Really, that's pretty good. But it did make us step back and actually write down the following policy:

If you post something that we, in our sole judgement deem to be offensive, spammy, trollish or otherwise uncultured, we may: disable your account, delete the question or change the question to make fun of you.

What do I do if I see a question that's offensive or spammy?

When voting on the question, click the bright red link that reads "This isn't a 'do x or y' question. Make it go away." While we won't reveal our exact formula, enough people marking something as spam will make it go away.

I just posted a question, but it's not on the homepage. Why not?

Before a question gets put on the homepage, we need a few people to vote on it (to make sure it's not spam). Go get your friends to sign up and help tell you what to do!

How do you use FOAF to determine my friends?

We check the homepage and weblog of each of your friends in the FOAF file for matches with the OpenIDs of Doxory users. This is the only truly accurate way to determine your friends. The method works particularly well for LiveJournal users who use their LJ OpenID on Doxory.

Will Google index my questions and answers?

We can't promise that they will, but they index damn near everything else. So probably, yes.

Who owns my questions?

You do. We're going to display them on the website and let people help you decide what to do, but we've got enough questions of our own. We won't take yours.

How do I contact you?

doxory@bestpractical.com

Points

What are points good for?

It feels good to get more points, right? Points are their own reward.

Can I trade my points in for cool prizes or money or something?

Nope. Maybe someday we'll have cute stuffed animals, badges and gold stars you can get with points.

Trivia

How do you pronounce "Doxory"?

Some people pronounce it DOC-sor-ee. Other people pronounce it doc-SOR-ee. Under no circumstances may you pronouce it do-eks-or-why.Tell us how you pronounce it.

How are you making money from it?

Right now, we're doing the Web 2.0 thing and earning all our revenue from Google AdWords. In the future, we might roll out some sort of "pro" account that gets you more power and control.

Are you serious?

Not terribly. But hey. It's Web 2.0. We've got to pretend that we don't have any sort of plan for how to stay afloat, right?

Missing features

I want to make a question "friends-only."

We just rolled out the friends list feature. If you're REALLY good, we might let you make some of your questions "friends-only" in the future.

X or Y? I'm trying to pick between three different things. Can Doxory help me?

We're pondering the right way to help you with things like that. For now, um. just drop the option that sounds like the least fun.

What other features do you want to add?

Feeds, a REST API, blog integration, nice gradient backgrounds and candy-colored starburst badges that say "Beta."