Would be curious to know how much revenue for the company the top earner generated
Quora pays thousands for posting questions
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Re: Quora pays thousands for posting questions
#22content quality aside, at least this makes users customers. why shouldn't folks creating content on sites like this be part of the profit sharing?
The only valuable content are the answers, some that have taken hours to write and kept up to date by passionate folks who are willing to share their expertise and knowledge.
They don't pay for answers though, and this is making writers turn into unpaid workers generating money for spammers who just post questions all day. Many writers I know have stopped because there is no upside.
Re: Quora pays thousands for posting questions
#23Earlier 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...
I dunno. I’ve noticed my feed now contains more and more ads.
And posts out of order. And posts on repeat.
It’s clearly no longer the simple service which simply shows me the latest images posted by those I follow.
It’s now a site I can tell is trying to game me, and that’s such a turn off.
Facebook had that moment where they crossed a line and that was when I stopped posting. Instagram too is getting close.
They shouldn’t push their luck.
Re: Quora pays thousands for posting questions
#24What 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.
VC demands for growth. It could've remained an independent high-quality site since it really doesn't take much to run, but raising $226 million requires a return.
Since they've chosen the advertising model, that means increasing views at all costs to create the inventory to sell those ads. Unfortunately but inevitable.
Re: Quora pays thousands for posting questions
#25Earlier 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.
> 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…
Exactly this. I used to love writing long-form answers but they would get shoved out of the way with either meme-filled images, copy/pasted nonsense from the web, or a few writers who have no idea on the subject but have a large following that upvotes everything including joke answers.
There's also seemingly no effort spent on stopping spam even with blatant examples reported many times. It's crazy to see questions get paid thousands while being a Top Writer means I get the opportunity to buy their merchandise.
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#26Pathetic. You rarely see an authentic answer in Quora these days. It's all self-promotion, direct and indirect advertising, fake wisdom and "life hacks".
I agree with you. Many of the popular writers seem interested in internet points.
Many of the answers have the same storytime format. The writer takes us back in time, introduces a concept that on first inspection seems wrong, and eventually gives us an example of why it is correct by using an example of someone else's misfortune.
It gets old fast.
Re: Quora pays thousands for posting questions
#27I'd be interested in knowing the thought process/analytics that inspired the idea to pay for questions, and not (highly-upvoted) answers? My main reason for joining Quora was that it seemed to be the social network that Dave Baggett [0] (at the time) was actively using.
Re: Quora pays thousands for posting questions
#28content quality aside, at least this makes users customers. why shouldn't folks creating content on sites like this be part of the profit sharing?
The only valuable content are the answers, some that have taken hours to write and kept up to date by passionate folks who are willing to share their expertise and knowledge. They don't pay for answers though, and this is making writers turn into unpaid workers generating money for spammers who just post questions all day. Many writers I know have stopped because there is no upside.
I wish someone would make a for profit site that is a mashup of hacker news, quora and twitter and paid people for posting content, specifically for upvotes. I would invest in this personally
Re: Quora pays thousands for posting questions
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
The only valuable content are the answers, some that have taken hours to write and kept up to date by passionate folks who are willing to share their expertise and knowledge. They don't pay for answers though, and this is making writers turn into unpaid workers generating money for spammers who just post questions all day. Many writers I know have stopped because there is no upside.
I wish someone would make a for profit site that is a mashup of hacker news, quora and twitter and paid people for posting content, specifically for upvotes. I would invest in this personally
I think paying for content is the problem because it skews everything, unless there is very tight control over submissions.
Re: Quora pays thousands for posting questions
#30What 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.
Seems like "marketing" is how a lot of things die and/or become garbage.