People, Made Wiser

Today marks the introduction of a new and improved “people” page. In addition to seeing the good old leaderboard, you’ll now be able to track point gains over the course of the day. We’ve also overhauled our “compatibility” system, so hopefully now you’ll see match percentages more dynamic and accurate. Think you might have friends on wis.dm? Use our new people search, which will allow you to focus your search by location and/or gender. All and all, we’ve given the people page more entertainment ammo.

And of course, please feed us your feedback! feedback@wis.dm

Finding great content...

With all the activity on wis.dm these days, we know it's sometimes a little difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff and get to the questions that really resonate with you and your topics of interest.
With that in mind we've introduced a new topic bar for browsing by popular subjects, and of course you can always type in your own. And once you start to delve you can now see the most popular questions on those topics, as well as the most recent... or you can take a peek at related ones.
So what are you waiting for? Get out there and find those gems.

You may also notice a few more subtle changes, such as the ability to send a question to both your wis.dm friends and your friends who aren't yet members on the same page as where you're asking the question. Go ahead, get your friends to answer - their responses may surprise you!

Any and all feedback is welcome at feedback@wis.dm

Keep the wis.dm rolling with favorite questions!

We’ve been listening to your feature requests, and are proud to announce the introduction of WIS.DM FAVORITES! Now you can mark your favorite questions as “favorites,” display them in your profile, and keep a close eye on the discussions you want to follow. It’s ridiculously simple; just click the little star on the question and watch it light up and jump into your “favorites” page on my wis.dm. Click said star again to reverse the process. Before you know it, your productivity will rocket through the roof. Your wis.dm productivity, that is. Favorites replaces the “wise” flag, but don’t worry, you can still give people kudos by favoriting their questions, and you won’t lose points from previous wise’s.

As always, feedback is more than welcome. Tell us what's on your mind at feedback@wis.dm!

Chutes and Ladders

Some of our most eagle-eyed members noticed a bit of motion on the points leaderboard the other day. Some users moved up a bunch of places and some moved down.

So, what's going on? We've been working on making the playing field fairer. Specifically, we removed points from users who were abusing the system, and we restored points to users who were being abused. For anyone who cares, we are doing our best to make the points as fair as possible. But no matter how many safeguards we put in place, there is always room for people to work counter to the spirit of wis.dm.

So, it is really up to all of you to help. If you see someone abusing the system, let them know that it isn't okay. And by all means, continue using using the flagging to highlight questions that are inappropriate, spam, etc. Just be fair. And if you need us, you can always reach the wis.dm team at feedback@wis.dm.

Have you asked a wis.dm question on Facebook yet?

Today, we just released a major update to the wis.dm app on Facebook. The biggest change is that you can now ask your friends questions - all from within Facebook. And your matches - who has answered most like you - is now limited to your Facebook friends.

It is now really fun to ask and answer wis.dm questions from Facebook. All in all, the experience now is much better. Give it a try!

What's the right number of topics?

wis.dmers seem to fall into one of a three camps when it comes to question topics. The first group is busy asking questions with no topics at all. That's okay, but not ideal. Why? Well, topics are a great way to make sure that other people with similar interests will see your question. No topics, and your question will have a lower chance of getting noticed. The second group on wis.dm is doing a great job of adding topics to questions. Not much to say here except keep up the good work of adding relevant, concise topics to your questions. The third group of wisdmers has been a bit verbose on the topic choices. No, 50 topics is not helpful. Too many topics on a question is worse than no topics. And topics that have nothing to do with the question waste everyone's time. Some people might even call it spam.

Today, we've limited the number of topics you can add to a question to 10. This is designed to prevent people from adding large numbers of irrelevant topics. We will be rolling out other changes in the upcoming weeks to make topics even more useful. In the meantime, don't forget to flag off-topic questions you come across. Flagging is your chance to influence the ways you want to see wis.dm used.

wis.dm brings questions and answers to Facebook

Yes, it's true, some of the best parts of wis.dm are now available in Facebook. Today, we launched the new wis.dm app for Facebook. It combines what's great about wis.dm - excellent questions and answers, with the reason Facebook is so useful - connecting with all your friends. Bringing the two together lets you do amazing things like see who on Facebook you are most compatible with - all based on who is answering like you. If you are an avid wis.dm question asker, now your Facebook friends can answer your wis.dm questions without leaving Facebook - the questions are right on your Facebook profile.

This is our first pass at integrating wis.dm with Facebook. Tell us what you think, what you'd like to see next and if you are running into any problems. We see tremendous potential in combining Facebook and wis.dm. We hope you do too!

Get the wis.dm app for Facebook here: http://apps.facebook.com/_wisdm_/