Markets/en/Portal:Model/Tutorials:Model
Section 9 of the market portal model. Neutral example content: replace with market-specific tutorials when instantiating.
Tutorials
What this section holds
User guides that help people carry a contract through to success: from daring to ask, to signing well, to closing without loose ends. WikiDeal tutorials aim at three qualities at once:
- Educational: after the tutorial, the user can actually do the thing, not just nod.
- Funny: humor lowers the shame threshold around money, commitments and saying no.
- Spectacular: pattern-breaking, artistic, punchy. A tutorial people share is worth ten they merely tolerate.
Formats
- Short videos (around 90 seconds): one situation, one mistake, one fix.
- Comic strips: the awkward moment, drawn, with the better line to say.
- Checklists: before signing, before reminding, before closing.
- Quizzes: "what would you answer?", with the contract clause revealed after.
- Real-life sketches: staged scenes of the conversations everyone dreads, played twice: the disaster version, then the contract version.
What a good tutorial does
- Starts from a real, recognizable situation (not from the platform's features).
- Shows the cost of the informal way: the misunderstanding, the resentment, the lost friendship.
- Shows the same scene with a light written agreement, and how the hard conversation becomes easy.
- Ends with exactly one thing to do next.
- References its sources: the relevant clause, the legal reference, the statistic that proves the point.
The tutorial sub-community
Tutorial makers (writers, illustrators, video makers, comedians) form a sub-community within each market. This sub-community is intended to organize its own open calls to attract more effective, faster, funnier, more artistic and more dynamic illustrations of the market's contracts. See Open Calls for the general mechanism.
All tutorials belong to Category:Tutorials.
See also
- Follow-up messages: the lines tutorials teach people to say
- Back to the portal model