can they ever fire you for not maintaining a certain %? I'm kinda nervous about seeing my Quality Rating on the 26th.

3/23/2009 8:01:54 PM

u a gabriel gonzaga fan?

3/23/2009 8:09:15 PM

^^ what? me?

3/23/2009 8:10:45 PM

ha guess not


nvm

3/23/2009 8:15:16 PM

They can fire guides for being consistently bad, but you are new so they know it takes a little time to get up to speed. my first quality ratings sucked

3/23/2009 8:31:14 PM

**crickets**

3/24/2009 1:05:49 AM

?

3/24/2009 1:22:40 AM

i saw somewhere where someone was talking about submitting or challenge low quality ratings? I received two 70%s for answers that I think are perfect! The rest are 100 and those are lowering my QR. Whats the deal here

3/24/2009 1:25:32 AM

I saw a commercial last week for what looks like a competitor: "Text your question to 542542" or something similar. Somebody be nosing in on your turf.

3/24/2009 1:38:29 AM

^ yeah, that's kgb. 5542542 is kgbkgb. I wouldn't exactly call them a competitor because you have to pay $.99 per text to use them, and ChaCha is free.

^^ cut and paste the full questions and answers here and I will let you know if you should challenge them. I challenge all of mine that are not 100%, but I have never received a 70%. I either get 100% or 0%. I have had 8 0% ratings and I have challenged all of them. I got 7 of them reversed and changed to 100%

3/24/2009 8:25:01 AM

I just got my bank account all set up so I now have the "Pay Me Now" option. I am supposed to get my ChaCha debit card by the end of this week or beginning of next week.

3/24/2009 11:20:27 AM

Quote :

"**crickets**"

means it's dead...nothing going on. All you hear is crickets. Like, right now...been on 30 minutes and have received one question!!

3/24/2009 2:56:44 PM

I've been working since Sunday around midnight. I am averaging $25 in a 24 hour period. I have received 4 QAs so far, 2 100% and 2 70%, overall QA of 80%. I have a ton of Specializations set up and I am getting a question within 30 seconds of ending each one. Dunno if thats good, just letting you know I'm not hearing crickets over here.......

3/24/2009 3:24:11 PM

^^I am b2b every time I sign on. I have had another day of phone interviews so I have been off and on, but it has always been steady. What do your categories look like?

^ I am assuming you are Bryan S. Keep up the good work brother, I'll take a free $2.50 a day all day long. That pays for the fee I get charged for loading my debit card and then some

[Edited on March 24, 2009 at 3:36 PM. Reason : a]

3/24/2009 3:30:22 PM

Quote :

"3/17/09 6:45 AM Q: What is a q word with no u in it A: QINDAR which is an Albanian currency. ChaCha! "

got a 70% on that one. wtf. dispute time

3/24/2009 3:49:54 PM

^^ For what? Presentation?

3/24/2009 4:04:25 PM

^^they're prolly gonna say you only gave one

3/24/2009 4:07:42 PM

bastards.

[Edited on March 24, 2009 at 4:11 PM. Reason : nvm i can't count]

3/24/2009 4:11:03 PM

I am not back to back today like I usually am, but its been pretty steady. I average about 50-75 dollars a day right now.

3/24/2009 4:11:59 PM

^^ Wow! So far I am not understanding how people make that much. I'm only at $25 a day and I am definitely back 2 back all the time.... Is that because you are a Top Guide? Got any tips for making $50-$75 in a day??

[Edited on March 24, 2009 at 4:15 PM. Reason : forgot something]

3/24/2009 4:15:18 PM

Quote :

"got a 70% on that one. wtf. dispute time"

They will say that the answer was too short. You should have given another one for the "wow" factor.

3/24/2009 4:17:43 PM

shit i thought i was doing good by giving a definition

3/24/2009 4:18:37 PM

i have all my categories well filled in, i'm not a top guide as i currently only have about 86% rating as of last week. I get A LOT of biology/anatomy and pregnancy questions, as well as literature questions which pay higher then some other categories.

3/24/2009 4:20:18 PM

^ same here. I get a ton of biology/medical shit. Also, Hockey and NASCAR pay more than the other sports. Just a tip.

I wish I was good at math, then I would get more of those. They pay the most. Although I did get a question a few minutes ago that was "What is 2 plus 2?". Yeah, got .20 for that one.

3/24/2009 4:41:09 PM

I'm up to $258 right now 2 days into week 3, with my vacation in October, i should have plenty of gambling and drinking money by then

3/24/2009 4:54:08 PM

I have a lot of Interests filled in, but some are not the top paying ones. Should I only keep the high paying ones and remove the rest? The way I see it is the generals are .10, and some interests are .10... so I might as well be answering the ones I know about... but I guess that shares the traffic with the high paying ones too and reduces their chance of appearing.

Any advice?

3/24/2009 5:02:12 PM

^ no. you want a nice mix, because the .10 questions are the most popular. you would much rather have b2b .10 questions than 1 .20 question every 20 minutes.

my advice is to pick 5 categories and fill them bitches up.

my sister ONLY does .10 questions because she wants to jam as many into an hour as she possibly can. she does quite well on ChaCha. they are easiest to answer, and you can answer a lot more of them

^^ I am totally not happy that you are not on my team.

[Edited on March 24, 2009 at 5:07 PM. Reason : a]

3/24/2009 5:05:25 PM

^are you still getting b2b questions?

3/24/2009 5:09:14 PM

You're not happy who is on your team?

and yes, im still getting b2b

[Edited on March 24, 2009 at 5:11 PM. Reason : im dumb]

3/24/2009 5:10:51 PM

^^nope, it died now. I am going to log out and clear my cache, then log back in. that works sometimes when you have been logged on all day

^ I am not happy that 86 isn't on my team because I would have made nearly $26 off of her fine ass

[Edited on March 24, 2009 at 5:11 PM. Reason : a]

3/24/2009 5:10:52 PM

now we're cookin, bitches!!

3/24/2009 5:26:35 PM

Yeah, I am b2b again as well, but they are all generalist questions. Those suck because you have to accept them before you even know what the question is. but it's better than nothing.

3/24/2009 5:29:35 PM

b2b2b damn i can't even get a chance to eat my ice cream haha

3/24/2009 6:01:00 PM

Okay. Seriously. The damn 100th one I've had. People asking WHO someone is. I can't find them on Pipl. Can't find them anywhere. No Celeb. No Non-Famous results. I see other guides making up BS in the history... WHAT THE HELL do you do to answer these questions where you cannot find a single thing on the person...

3/24/2009 6:01:26 PM

I ask them some bullshit question back about who the person is. The last one I got like that I just posted a bunch of shit off of his myspace lol

3/24/2009 6:07:45 PM

^I just usually answer with something about them having a myspace or facebook page.

3/24/2009 6:08:59 PM

so if you ask them a question back about the person, what page would you cite?

3/24/2009 6:14:29 PM

Q: "Who is John Jay Doe?

A: John Jay Doe lives in Twitty, Texas and has a facebook page.

citing his page on facebook

3/24/2009 6:21:04 PM

How many white women marry Mexicans??

I just got this....

HELP!

3/24/2009 6:24:01 PM

Put "too fucking many"

[Edited on March 24, 2009 at 6:26 PM. Reason : lol jk dont do that..i'd find a marriage stat or just abort it]

3/24/2009 6:26:11 PM

seriously... i am so stumped

3/24/2009 6:26:58 PM

the census collects data on that kind of information, but it'd prolly take a good 10 min to find it

3/24/2009 6:30:13 PM

DAMN IT. My first abort... I searched for 10 freakin minutes and couldn't find anything even remotely close.... well there goes my QA....................................

3/24/2009 6:34:53 PM

that's not how it works.

wasting 10 mins on that question isn't smart.

3/24/2009 6:39:52 PM

heh...he didn't miss anything, as I have not gotten a question in about 10 mins

3/24/2009 6:43:55 PM

well what was I supposed to do? What would you have done that would have been 'smart?'

3/24/2009 6:44:51 PM

hit abort about 7 minutes earlier.

3/24/2009 6:50:47 PM

Do i need to teach a tutorial on non-famous look ups?

^ bad answer

[Edited on March 24, 2009 at 6:51 PM. Reason : a]

3/24/2009 6:51:27 PM

If it's something I'm not going to find the answer to I'm not wasting 10 minutes on it. I'm pretty sure I could have found the answer to the hispanic marriage question though.

3/24/2009 6:53:11 PM

question sent at 333

no response yet!

3/24/2009 6:54:16 PM