What is Ask About The Mouse?
Ask About the Mouse is a different kind of Disney Q&A site devoted to sharing Disney knowledge. It's kind of like
Wikipedia meets
The Disney Mom's Panel with a way for
everyone to contribute.
Here are some basic components of the
Ask About the Mouse experience.
It all starts with a Disney Parks related question
The main goal is to help people get good answers to their Disney questions quickly. Trip planning questions or asking about park history are both great places to start. Simply ask your question. There's no need to log in or register (but there are benefits to doing so - more on that later).
Here come the answers
Once the question is asked, users can start submitting answers -
immediately. Again, there is no need to register before answering a question.
So - now I need to sift through a million responses?
No. Not exactly - and here's where registering for the site begins to pay dividends. Once you register on
Ask About the Mouse, you begin to earn reputation for the questions you ask and the answers you contribute. With your reputation, you can vote up the best answers, edit existing responses to make them more complete, and earn fun badges based on your participation.
The best answers (determined by user vote) will bubble to the top - ideally you'll only ever need to look at the top few responses to find some good answers to your question.
What if I don't like the top voted response?
That's perfectly OK. As the question asker you can select any answer as the best response to your question. You are under no obligation to select a highly voted response. The answer you select will appear at the top of all submitted responses. You can also answer your own question if you like.
Will I need to remember another user name and password?
No.
Ask About The Mouse uses something called
OpenID. OpenID allows you to use an existing login that you may already have on Google, Yahoo, Flickr or a number of other popular web sites. You sign in to those sites and they confirm that you are who you say you are. No passwords are stored on
Ask About The Mouse.
So, it's another message board?
No. There are already a number of great Disney discussion boards out there and this site is not meant to replace or compete with those communities.
Ask About the Mouse is devoted to asking and answering focused Disney Parks questions. In fact, feel free to link to discussion on other sites in your response. Creating a web of information is a good thing for everyone - very good.
You should, you'll get a great response. The thing is, there are only a handful of Disney Moms and it might take some time for them to get to
your question. This is simply an alternative method to get
a bunch of answers to your Disney questions, quickly.
