Pathetic. You rarely see an authentic answer in Quora these days. It's all self-promotion, direct and indirect advertising, fake wisdom and "life hacks".
Quora pays thousands for posting questions
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#12What happened to Quora anyway? When it started I recall it being super hot with crazy high quality answers. Then they started with logins being required and it all seemed to go downhill at an amazing speed.
>What happened to Quora anyway? It became marketing. Almost every question turns into blatant and unhelpful pitches for the responder's startup. Same with Medium. Once the startup bros say a site is good for "native marketing", that's when the begins to die.
> Almost every question turns into blatant and unhelpful pitches for the responder's startup.
They break all of their own rules for the sake of clicks. I was a Top Writer there for two years. I finally got sick of trying to write informative high-quality answers only to see them buried beneath flippant image-heavy crap (rules violation #1) that didn't even get one tenth as many upvotes (rules violation #2). Then they started getting on my case for not having topic bios, even though other people's were blatantly false, for not responding nicely when their favorites were being dicks in comments, etc. So I just quit cold turkey and haven't posted since. I only go back to read sometimes when I'm super bored, and that's about it.
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#13What happened to Quora anyway? When it started I recall it being super hot with crazy high quality answers. Then they started with logins being required and it all seemed to go downhill at an amazing speed.
As a service whose value is derived from its users, its early adopters were its most valuable users. You only get one wave of those.
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#14What happened to Quora anyway? When it started I recall it being super hot with crazy high quality answers. Then they started with logins being required and it all seemed to go downhill at an amazing speed.
>What happened to Quora anyway? It became marketing. Almost every question turns into blatant and unhelpful pitches for the responder's startup. Same with Medium. Once the startup bros say a site is good for "native marketing", that's when the begins to die.
> Once the startup bros say a site is good for "native marketing", that's when the begins to die.
That's a good point. Though it certainly isn't the case for Instagram...
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#15What happened to Quora anyway? When it started I recall it being super hot with crazy high quality answers. Then they started with logins being required and it all seemed to go downhill at an amazing speed.
Most people seem to ascribe it to the login change (mid 2012 I think?) but at the same time, Quora was -exploding- in India. This came with it a big shift in the types and relevance of questions. By the start of 2013, India had more users on the site than any other country. As a heavy site user at the time, it felt like it happened overnight. For me this seems more impactful than the login change.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
>What happened to Quora anyway? It became marketing. Almost every question turns into blatant and unhelpful pitches for the responder's startup. Same with Medium. Once the startup bros say a site is good for "native marketing", that's when the begins to die.
> Once the startup bros say a site is good for "native marketing", that's when the begins to die. That's a good point. Though it certainly isn't the case for Instagram...
But it does seem to be true of the Instagram "discover" feature.
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#17content quality aside, at least this makes users customers. why shouldn't folks creating content on sites like this be part of the profit sharing?
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#18content quality aside, at least this makes users customers. why shouldn't folks creating content on sites like this be part of the profit sharing?
Because they are not paying for answers, or good thoughtful in-depth answers at that, they are paying for Questions.
From my understanding, the better your question does, the more money it generates. This puts incentives on questions that are (A) most likely to be asked and (B) answers that will drive traffic to the questions.
Quora used to be more like Wikipedia, and now it's more like Yahoo answers.
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#19What happened to Quora anyway? When it started I recall it being super hot with crazy high quality answers. Then they started with logins being required and it all seemed to go downhill at an amazing speed.
The website became very popular in India, which meant some sort of Eternal September.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
>What happened to Quora anyway? It became marketing. Almost every question turns into blatant and unhelpful pitches for the responder's startup. Same with Medium. Once the startup bros say a site is good for "native marketing", that's when the begins to die.
> Once the startup bros say a site is good for "native marketing", that's when the begins to die. That's a good point. Though it certainly isn't the case for Instagram...
Instagram is good for marketing visual products and ideas. It's visual discovery.
Quora pushed a blend between Yahoo! Answers and Wikipedia. It was text-based discovery. I do miss the well-researched, cited, frequently updated answers of yesteryear.