What is Honswer?
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Where do you get honest answers for your personal questions?
Request and reward objective answers from anonymous users without vested interest
Requesting and giving objective feedback is hard
Let's say you are thinking about becoming an artist but don't know whether you have talent, or wondering if you were really fair in an argument... Who would you turn to to get honest feedback?
Honesty is NOT the go-to policy for everyone and in all settings. Focusing on feelings or self-interest may trump sincerity in the preservation of a relationship. And that's fine. Because truth is not necessarily what we need, at least not all the time.
But in those cases where it's actually the most important driver of our interrogation, where do we get it? To whom do we ask sincere feedback about things that we know our community will have a hard time answering in a manner that's not tainted by their past or future relationship with us? Where do we turn to to get opinions, whose content is not  influenced by the respondents' vested interests (getting something from us, from observing third-parties...)?  Where can we expose ourselves without fear of being judged, criticized or shamed, by people who are dear to us?

Honswer was created to fill this need. To provide a platform between people looking for unbiased feedback and anonymous users willing to provide it.
How we make objective feedback work
Find out how you can request and obtain objective feedback regarding anything that's important to you. Or provide feedback to anonymous users and potentially get paid for it!
Requesting feedback
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Publish a feedback request
Posting a request allows you to expose it for feedback. You'll select the category your request falls into, its language, provide the necessary context to your doubt/dilemma/worry and ask all the related questions for which you expect answers.
Optionally, you'll attach a monetary prize to incentivize answers, determine the conditions for distributing this prize and fund it with a credit card.

If you want your request to be answered by persons you actually know, you can make it private and add their e-mails to the request. We'll contact them for you and take all possible steps to guarantee their anonymity.

And voilĂ !
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Rate its honswers
You'll be notified in your dashboard and on your e-mail as your requests start receiving honswers.
If, among the questions of a request, one is rateable (includes an open-text answer), then you'll have to rate it  in order to be able to see the next ones.

Optionally, you'll be able to securely engage with your honswerers through the rating page. 
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Award prizes
Providing an honswer (honest answer)
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Find requests
Honswer's homepage contains a lot of requests on the most varied topics. Determine the categories you're insterested in and the languages you speak and start honswering !
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Provide an honswer
A request is made up of different questions, all related to a same situation. The questions can be of closed types (expecting a score from 1 to 5, a number, selecting an option among pre-defined ones...) or open. 
Open questions give you the opportunity to write texts as long as you want. Answering those questions make your honswer rateable. It means that in order to be able to see the next one, the requester (originator of the recquest) has to rate it across four criteria: objectivity, usefulness, intention, feeling.

Your ratings are personal. But they can give you access to different types of requests and earn you prizes. 
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Receive awards
If you've been selected by the honswerer, or through automatic distribution based on rating for a prize, you'll have to create an account on a third-party payment gateway to be able to cash it.
You'll be notified of such events in your dashboard or by e-mail.
Honswer's principles
What 80 years of academic research in the areas of economics, psychology, decision sciences and sociology teach us about how to obtain the most objective answers
Disinterestedness
Popularized by Robert Merton's CUDOS as one of the four pillars of modern science, disinterestedness corresponds to the ideal situation where the author of an opinion has no interest whatsoever regarding the content of their opinion
It doesn't mean that they cannot be interested in providing their opinion (which means that they can be rewarded for it); but that the actual opinion shouldn't have an impact on their life. 

As a counter-example, think about the last time that your significant other asked you how they looked: you were probably not disinterested. The content of your answer could have had dramatic impacts on your situation, on the quality or your relationship, etc.
Anonymity
A central pillar in Honswer's method is the fact that, unless you specifically request it (by including personal details in either your feedback requests or your honswers), you will remain completely anonymous to all other users of the platform.
This serves multiple purposes:
  • Allowing each one to express themself freely without fearing being recognized or exposed
  • Focusing on the message and not on the messenger. This is a critical way of mitigating the halo effect, which can blur our opinion on a person, an idea, an opinion...

Honswer is not your typical social network. Here, what matters is what you express; not who you are.  
Feedback
Of course, we're here to request and/or give feedback. But there's something else... At Honswer, even feedback gets its own feedback!
Whenever a request calls for an open-ended answer, the requester will have to rate it before being able to see the other honswers on the following criteria: objectivity, intention, usefulness, and effect

The ratings that an honswerer receives may allow them to be awarded special monetary prizes and/or participate in restricted requests. 
Privacy
Honswer's mission statement is to provide a safe way for people to inquire anonymous feedback. In such a context, communication between users or even allowing them to browse each others' profiles before the request is performed could be detrimental for the objectivity of the interaction.
Which is why, there is no such thing as a public user profile. Users are represented by random avatars and names so as not to influence  communication on elements unrelated with the object of the request.

Furthermore, honswers are absolutely confidential: the requester is the only user who will ever see them. It means that an honswerer cannot be influenced by other people's answers.

If a requester is interested in engaging in communication with an honswerer, they can only do so after rating the corresponding honswer, and through the platform's messaging system. Even then, the identity and e-mail of both users is never revealed by Honswer.
Try it for yourself!
Requesting feedback and providing honswers is free and fun!