If you are thinking about joining Mahalo and writing how-to articles or topic pages, I am warning you now that if you say anything negative about Mahalo, they will take your content from you, give it to someone else, and refuse to pay you for it. If you want further proof of the type of guy that Jason Calacanis is, just read this: How Not to Handle a Resignation Gracefully
After I read that, I couldn't believe that Jason Calacanis actually had the nerve to call me "unprofessional". That post shows an email exchange between Jason Calacanis and one of his employees who was giving his two weeks notice. The employee's email was sincere and polite, and even thanked Jason for the opportunity to work at Mahalo. And Jason responded very unprofessionally by saying "good luck being employee 4,367 at a dying company" and telling him not to bother coming back because today is your last day.
Who does Jason Calacanis think he is? He treats his actual Mahalo employees like dirt, and gets away with stealing money from the freelance workers who are building and promoting his site. But of course since the majority of the people freelancing at Mahalo are too afraid to speak out for fear of retaliation, no one will ever know just exactly how despicable he can be.
I'm glad I spoke out against Jason Calacanis and the rest of his cowardly Mahalo staff and kiss-ass vertical managers. I was making pretty good money at Mahalo, and yet I risked losing that because I really felt the need to speak up. They shouldn't be allowed to steal content from hard-working freelancers. They are actually taking content away from people for neglecting to do something that is not even listed as a requirement on the page management guide. Mahalo is also not following their own Terms of Service with regard to page management (see my previous post).
And the reason is because Jason Calacanis doesn't think that most members of Mahalo are "real" members. He has mentioned on numerous occasions on Mahalo Answers that the "real" members of Mahalo are the ones that give back to the community; the rest are "takers". Jason Calacanis thinks that "real" members of Mahalo should be putting money back into Mahalo by tipping up questions, tipping other members, and paying to vote for best answers. And since my focus on Mahalo was more on page management than it was on Mahalo Answers, I was not a "real" member, so therefore I was expendable. So if you are planning on joining Mahalo and creating pages to supplement your income, be prepared to spend some of your hard-earned money on Mahalo Answers, otherwise you're not a "real" member of Mahalo.
So let this be a warning to anyone looking into Mahalo for freelance work.
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