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>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…
On the Internet, there is too much value and emphasis on QUICK bangs of interest, while the real value can lie much more comfortably in long for interaction, much like a conversation in person.
I'm not going to give too many details now, but I look forward to hopefully having you guys give the prototype a trial once it's ready. I estimate that will be in about 3 - 4 weeks.
knophy.com is currently live, but it's really just there because I'm developing all of this out in the open. I'm also working on radically changing how we think about business structures and actually incorporating the idea of demonstrated competencies into how the board is going to function.
If you'd like to check out the repo, it's here: http://github.com/technoplato/knophy