Askville

Askville: Community Q&A

Askville is a community question-and-answer website launched by Amazon in 2007. Users can post questions on various topics and receive answers from members of the Askville community.

What is Askville?

Askville is a community question-and-answer website launched by Amazon in 2007. On Askville, users can post questions on various topics ranging from health, technology, finance, and more. Other members of the Askville community can then provide answers and comments to the questions.

Some key features of Askville include:

• Ability for users to post questions on virtually any topic
• Community of people providing answers to questions posted
• Voting system for the best answers to rise to the top
• Badges and points system for top contributors
• Integration with Amazon's products allowing easy searching and links to purchase related items

The purpose of Askville is to crowdsource answers from experts and enthusiasts on a wide variety of topics. Users post questions and the community attempts to provide helpful, informative answers. Through upvotes and reputation, the best answers get visibility while low-quality ones get buried.

Compared to alternatives like Quora or Yahoo Answers, Askville is not as popular in terms of user traffic. However, it provides a focused question-and-answer format and leverages Amazon's expertise in community engagement. Overall, it serves a niche for people seeking crowdsourced information across topics.

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