Also, another idea: analytics. This is ripe for psychopathic manipulative people, so should be treated delicately, but for people who are just socially awkward, aspergers, or using non-native language this might be a huge boon.
After you send enough messages, you get some vague idea. Say, "people who answered questions x like this are likely to think you're obnoxious", "people don't even read your message — there's something wrong with your nick or the small version of your photo", "if you use the following words, the probability of answer goes up this much".
BTW, on OKC, I would totally love the ability to get analytics on questions I wrote.
Maybe the site could use its users as "captcha" solvers, in the form of rating/tagging content.
Ie the site pops up a random picture of another user occasionally, which the user must rate according to several dimensions ("photo quality", "objective attractiveness", "subjective attractiveness", "fashion impressiveness", "charisma", etc).
Or the site could pop up another user's profile and ask the user to rate it on interestingness, spelling & grammar, charmingness, etc.
After you send enough messages, you get some vague idea. Say, "people who answered questions x like this are likely to think you're obnoxious", "people don't even read your message — there's something wrong with your nick or the small version of your photo", "if you use the following words, the probability of answer goes up this much".
BTW, on OKC, I would totally love the ability to get analytics on questions I wrote.