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Money making will be a problem of the future..not thinking about that now..just thinking about growing and expanding now!

I am not planning to make ChilledLime a payed service.. so all functions will be free.

To answer your question:

Yahoo answers, Quora and EE are all about questions and answers. ChilledLime is all about questions and opinions.

On, for example, Quora...you can't ask questions where you ask for the people's verdicts and viewpoints!

For better understanding:

An example question on Quora: "What are some funny things to do if you find your friend left their account logged into Facebook on your computer?"

An example question on ChilledLime: "What is the best hyper-local hotel discovery app on iPhone?"

The question in your example for ChilledLime is completely appropriate on Quora. There's nothing preventing a question from soliciting personal viewpoints.

Just found this:

http://www.quora.com/Quora-Question-Policies-and-Guidelines/...

"Poll questions ask individuals for their opinions, preferences, habits, or other data without also asking those individuals how or why.Here are some examples:

    Did you vote for McCain or Obama?
    What is your favorite color?
    What type of laptop do you own?
    What is your favorite bar in San Francisco?
    How many friends do you have on Facebook?
    How often do you brush your teeth?"

They say that these type of questions are not allowed!

Actually, that should be updated. Only poll questions are not allowed, survey questions are, the "what do you think of..." ones are fine now.

The rules are a bit nebulous between poll/survey but generally they are loosely enforced, the main thing that's not allowed are ones where the question offers a set of specific choices and asks for the answerer to choose one.

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