Is Calacanis underpaying Mahalo workers -- or overpaying them? - Valleywag Comments

Is Calacanis underpaying Mahalo workers -- or overpaying them?

Rick — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:43:13 PST

wow, nothing from the blowhard himself? telling!

Rick

Is Calacanis underpaying Mahalo workers -- or overpaying them?

andyfox1979 — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:16:51 PST

$10 to check a page sure seems like a lot of money.

Saying that humans are cheaper than servers is a dumb answer. He could have answered that better. For that, I will smash a pie in his face.

andyfox1979

Is Calacanis underpaying Mahalo workers -- or overpaying them?

Patricia2 — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:16:41 PST

off topic note 2 - is this an old picture? he actually looks kind of cute.

Patricia2

Is Calacanis underpaying Mahalo workers -- or overpaying them?

w00zy33 — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:41:21 PST

off topic note. Calacansis' shirt in the photo - firefox. Epic Fail for Firefox.

w00zy33

Is Calacanis underpaying Mahalo workers -- or overpaying them?

abmw — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:35:14 PST

By the way, many document scanning companies outsource OCR key corrections and although the business has tailed off since the first big conversions of the 90's decade, some of the typos created by key correction folks in India, the Philippines, were hilarious.

Algorithms rule. $200-500k spent on custom machine statistical learning algorithms will get you millions in human equivalent drudgery.

abmw

Is Calacanis underpaying Mahalo workers -- or overpaying them?

abmw — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:30:44 PST

Is that what the wonder boy looks like? Now, I may be mistaken, and tell me if I am wrong..but....is he a bit pudgy in this picture and showing what could be..

male breasts?

abmw

Is Calacanis underpaying Mahalo workers -- or overpaying them?

c0d3w12 — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:19:11 PST

That's a pretty broad assessment! I'll assume that your either off your rocker or you have some type of inside information. I will hold my comments until this 'audit' is understood.

c0d3w12

Is Calacanis underpaying Mahalo workers -- or overpaying them?

Richeem — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:10:19 PST

@c0d3w12: As the original poster of the blog in question I understand your statement. However simply put there are only 30 Mentors on Mahalo. The "none payment" doesn't involve the guides just the mentors program.

I'm not aware of the full number of people that were involved but there were at least 3 of us that I know of that Mahalo refused payments for our pages. Pretty much the top 3 performing mentors in the program for the two months in question.

Richeem

Is Calacanis underpaying Mahalo workers -- or overpaying them?

GinaMuchava — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:55:40 PST

This blogger's complaint seem quite legit. It's obvious he put in work for these pages and magically Mahalo changed it's mind about an additional 120 pages after an audit. Me thinks he's getting nickled and dimed to death so he'll just accept the 50% compromise. Jason, why do you hate your contractors?

GinaMuchava

Is Calacanis underpaying Mahalo workers -- or overpaying them?

c0d3w12 — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:47:41 PST

The reality is this is one person doing the complaining and I know there are alot of other testers! Why no other complains??? Seems like someone is trying to make a name for themselfs at the cost of Jason's new company!
This type of thing always happens at startups. People hear how much venture capital has been raised and they think they can make a few bucks by flapping their gums to the mags/blogs that follow that industry hoping it will get picked up for better exposure.

c0d3w12