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Re: Show HN: Quetree – A Q&A site that is tree-based and hierarchical

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It seems odd to me that so many questions are answered by referring one to a video. For me at least this simply means that I won't ever know the answer because video is a very inefficient way of presenting simple information and I don't feel inclined to use the time.

Not sure which answers you are referring to because there only about 3 or videos in the site. May be you were talking about the demo and the help videos. The demo video has been taken down.

Re: Show HN: Quetree – A Q&A site that is tree-based and hierarchical

#44

I was just thinking that something similar to this would be really interesting for reading/peer-reviewing scientific papers. Scientific knowledge is built atop of claims made in previous papers, each claim having its own statistical strength. It would be awesome if each footnote in a paper was not just a citation to another publication, but a link to the first time that claim was made, with its p-value and sample siz…

Thank you so much for this awesome post! We did think about scientific papers and journals but are not phd level scientists ourselves. We thought more in terms about how hard it is for journal writers to spread their knowledge to a broader audience. Your point is very interesting and novel. Really wish we could discuss further about it and possibly implement it! Please get in touch!

Re: Show HN: Quetree – A Q&A site that is tree-based and hierarchical

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I think we need something like this, but I'm not sure if this is the answer. This type of tree-like Q&A would be good for problem solving, e.g. "How to save the oceans?" -> "How to save the oceans from plastics?" -> "How to harvest the plastics from the oceans?" -> "How to use AI to sort out different plastic types?" (obviously I can't sketch here the multitude of branches I'd like). You know, wiki for problem solvin…

Thank you so much for that as it is really well thought out and it is so refreshing to find someone instantly "get it"! I would like to personally invite you to create those questions sometime in Quetree and then we can figure out how to invite the whole global community to solve them! But please do keep in touch as it is very valuable to have people aligned with our vision from the very beginning! With help from peo…

Thanks! I thought what I said was pretty trivial, but why I "got it" so quickly was that I had a similar idea myself. Sure, I'd be interested to hear more, at least.
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