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Re: Quora begins making money with the introduction of advertising

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Post by nickpsecurity »

CiPHPerCoder wrote: post #14
rm_-rf_slash wrote: post #11

Quora's problems today are a direct result of what made them popular: celebrity. They made a great big splash when the media genuflected to the idea that "You can ask a question about Facebook, and Mark Zuckerberg could answer! " So regardless of the question or answer there will always be dominance by celebrities and their celebrators gleefully upvoting anything they post regardless of underlying fact. I prefer Stac…

One thing I love about Stack Exchange is the ability to add "This advice is INSECURE! See Beth's answer below for a better way to solve this problem." to accepted answers with really bad suggestions.

I briefly played around on StackOverflow and StackExchange Security as Nick P. I remember doing exactly what you describe a few times where some bullshit or sometimes wisdom from other comments/answers needed attention. One, which didn't mention other author, got changed to accepted answer and was about half my karma haha.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16062432/protecting-java...

I figured the site was addictive like digital crack early on. Wisely avoided spending too much time on it. Anything like that. (Pauses to look at address bar.) Or did I...?

Re: Quora begins making money with the introduction of advertising

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Post by nickpsecurity »

codezero wrote: post #45
vtlynch wrote: post #20

"[Quora] recently reported that it has 100 million monthly visitors... with 15 percent from India." Interested in knowing the ratio of questions:answers coming from Indian users.

Don't be deceived. The visitors include search traffic, so this isn't representative of the content creators. I expect the percentage of content creators to be higher than the passing observer percentage.

That was my concern. Hence asking for more specific information.

Re: Quora begins making money with the introduction of advertising

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Post by vessenes »

So much dislike for Quora! I love it. Well, I don't love it, but I have noticed recently that it's the only site that I actually click through on their e-mail marketing. They put serious energy into their targeted marketing software. So, from a marketer's perspective, I double love it.

Adam D'Angelo has to be one of the smartest people I've ever met, and there is a lot of very interesting content on Quora; I rarely read just one Q/A thread when I end up on the site.

As compared to a site that mostly shows friends pictures of people's lunch, I propose it provides useful and useable content, and is an interesting service.

Re: Quora begins making money with the introduction of advertising

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Post by ececconi »

vtlynch wrote: post #20

"[Quora] recently reported that it has 100 million monthly visitors... with 15 percent from India." Interested in knowing the ratio of questions:answers coming from Indian users.

I use Quora a lot. It seems that 70-90% of people who upvote my answers or new followers are from India. Not saying that's a bad thing at all. From an advertising standpoint, though, they would make much more money per capita with more engaged users from the United States, England, or other English speaking nations.

Note: Quora is only available in English at the moment.

Re: Quora begins making money with the introduction of advertising

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Post by ececconi »

azazqadir wrote: post #22
jbb555 wrote: post #9

Quora is still going? wow...

It is actually a good website with a nice community. Sure there are some spam and useless answers, but there are experienced users as well who contributing with great answers.

So much of Quora is knowing who to follow.

Re: Quora begins making money with the introduction of advertising

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Post by tjmaglio »

Udik wrote: post #37

What totally pisses me off about Quora is their real name policy. I am blessed with a fairly rare name- surname combination, and I definitely don't want to give to anybody with google and a couple of hours of spare time the chance to build a complete record of my (possibly ever changing) interests, opinions and life anecdotes. Also the reason I use facebook as little as possible - never, basically. I just can't belie…

0. Create fake Facebook account where you live in a foreign place, have pedestrian interests, and so on. 1. Use it to log into Quora and other sites that accept FB

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Post by emodendroket »

rm_-rf_slash wrote: post #11

Quora's problems today are a direct result of what made them popular: celebrity. They made a great big splash when the media genuflected to the idea that "You can ask a question about Facebook, and Mark Zuckerberg could answer! " So regardless of the question or answer there will always be dominance by celebrities and their celebrators gleefully upvoting anything they post regardless of underlying fact. I prefer Stac…

I don't know, what about, like, Jon Skeet, who could post a totally wrong answer and garner gazillions of upvotes

Re: Quora begins making money with the introduction of advertising

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Post by sireat »

The answers on quora are generally well reasoned, but the questions themselves..

"What is it like to get 1600 on SAT?", "What it is like to make a million trading?","I am making $200k a year, should I buy a Porsche?", "What are best life changing habits of winners?". "What is it like to be born in a billionare family?"

Those are all real questions or very similar to real questions on Quora. For some reason Quora thinks these are the type of questions I want to read the answers to. I am a sucker for responding sometimes while cringing.

These are the type of questions I might have asked when I was 17 and maybe that is the answer to who is asking them.

Re: Quora begins making money with the introduction of advertising

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Post by seanp2k2 »

nilkn wrote: post #23

I actually like Quora a lot. I see that it gets a lot of hate on HN and I've never felt it was wholly deserved. I understand Quora had some hostile practices in the past towards users and has made some bad decisions at times, and I've even spoken against their login policy here on more than one occasion, but I have to say that I'm still fond of the overall product and experience. It's exceptionally polished and it ce…

I installed a chrome plugin just to blacklist Quora in Google SERPs a couple years back. I think I did make an account at one point, but it was just a terrible experience clicking through to find that you couldn't actually see the answer.
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