摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques that facilitate generating useful content based on user interactions, by providing an answer-providing service for facilitating interactions between users who supply questions and users who supply responses to the questions of other users, as well as using the generated content in various ways. <P>SOLUTION: In some situations, users are incentivized to participate in interactions with the answer-providing service in various ways, including by assessing and using levels of expertise of the users, such as in a manner to compare with other users for one or more categories. For example, at least some of users with the highest levels of expertise and past participation are assigned with one or more enhanced incentive levels, and then additional benefits of various types are provided to the users having such enhanced status. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT |