no.stupid.answers

You’re probably familiar by now with the action filter on the recent site activity page that lets you see all new answers by guests so that you can go straight to work on those high-risk answers. (If not, you can read more about it here.)

What about risky answers by users who are registered, but are very new to WikiAnswers?

Well folks, there’s a new tool in town, and it’s a powerful one. Recently, we added a noob filter (officially called “new members” - those who have registered in the last 2 weeks), so now you can see all first answers by new members. Or, since these folks can also edit questions, answers and alternates, you might want to keep an eye on them by filtering for edits by new members.

These filters work on the international sites too. In the URL, just replace “wiki” with the country code. For an example, check out answers by new members on the French site.

Have fun and edit responsibly

Cool new feature to introduce today - freshly baked and right out of the WikiAnswers oven: the Community Forum. Supervisors and contributors alike have been asking for this one for a while, and for good reason.

In the Community Forum, we can post our wants, our likes, our dislikes… We can chat, share funny questions… We can put the social in social knowledge!

One little thing, though: you have to be logged in to view and participate (for now). Aw, not so bad though - all you need is a username, password and email address to sign up and then you get to join the fun!

Mozilla just released the latest Firefox into the wild, and it’s supposed to be 3 times the fun. While I’m playing around with the new toy, I’m noticing something even cooler:

The Answers.com add-on for Firefox is featured on the Firefox start page in the Learn tab. The add-on is basically a version of 1-Click Answers for your browser. It’s cool for a lot of reasons which I will now list:

• No matter what page you’re browsing in Firefox, you can Alt-click any word and get an instant pop up with the definition or additional facts. Kind of like the way you can double-click anywhere on this blog - you’d get the same AnswerTip. The AnswerTip is easy to close and non-invasive, in case you’re creeped out by pop ups.
• This will totally help you out when you don’t feel like leaving the web page you are viewing to find out what a weird word means.
• Eventually, you will start to Alt-click real things in your life, like a bizarre vegetable or fancy statue, in order to find out more… and you’ll be sad when you realize that there is life away from the computer screen.

If you just want to add it right now, go ahead. If you want to learn more about accessing Answers.com from Firefox, you can do that too.