Umm, yeah. I’ve been on Askville for almost one year now. There are similarities, but the sites couldn’t be more different. People were calling it a Yahoo! Answers rip-off in the begining, too. I was on Y!A for 18 months, so I can say with the utmost confidence there are absolutely no similarities between Askville and Y!A.
This is my Askville profile.
http://askville.amazon.com/view/ViewUserProfile.do?userId=157612
People also said it was an Ask Metafilter rip-off. Umm, nope to that, too.
I only just started Fluther, but ffom what I’ve sen so far, there aren’t that many similarities there either.
Safari doesn’t work with Askville. The best browsers to use there are IE7 and Firefox.
Let me clear a few things up here.
Firstly, Questville isn’t even open yet, nor has it EVER been suggested that anyone will be paid for using Questville. I’m one of the leaders in the Questville topic (think I’m # 2) and lead hands down in 35 other topics there. Mostly exercise based (exercise,fitness, weight lifting, weight training, bodybuilding, exercise science etc., etc.) and guitar based topics, but a couple of the Askville specific topics, too.
M turk is different, as is nownow. People do make money on those two sites. One of my friends on Askville makes a pretty penny through M turk, but he’s extremely active there. He also has a sleep disorder, so he devotes insane amounts of time to it.