Hasta La Motion!

One of the main points that have been raised over the current debate we are having with the old members of the site who dont support our solidarity with whats happening in India and who are threatening to leave is that their knowledge is irreplaceable, and as such we should put up with their actions.

We at VFXtalk beleive that there is no price that can be put on oppression, but do realize that knowledge is hard to come by and a lot of new comers to the industry come here looking for help.

In order to help re-build the community over the next few months we will be paying out $1 for every question that a new user asks that is successfully answered (within reason please).

While a dollar may not seem like much, it has to come out of our pocket at the moment until we can get sponsors to help cover the costs, and 50 answers a day can be 1500 a month so we would like to see where this goes before upping the ante! It would be great to raise this to $5 over time.

Please this is not a contest, its just our way of helping to give back and rewarding you for helping to rebuild our community here. We will pay out at the end of the month and will start a leaderboard tallying up the people who have helped.

The goal is to start adding more prizes and incentives if this program is successful over time. We will be adding some plugins to the site to help keep track of this process and how its working by giving awards etc to the most active users.

We will also activate the Karma system so that you can see a users Karma before engaging with them.

We understand that a answer may come from one or more people in which case we will award both parties, but in any case the user has to accept the answer. Over the coming weeks we will try to better define the rules around how this works.

This means that if you are a ‘lurker’ its time to sign up and share your knowledge and help users who can benefit from your expertise.

Please give us your feedback on how we can make this work.