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Re: Quora pays thousands for posting questions

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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…

Gonna copy and paste this below, but it's very exciting to see your feedback on Quora. I'm working on a prototype for my website, knophy.com, that is going to revolve completely around promoting those with competency.

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

Re: Quora pays thousands for posting questions

#32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 g…

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Gonna copy and paste this below, but it's very exciting to see your feedback on Quora. I'm working on a prototype for my website, knophy.com, that is going to revolve completely around promoting those with competency.

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

Re: Quora pays thousands for posting questions

#34

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> 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.

Copy and paste from comment above. Knophy.com is going to have no ads and is going to promote the usage of competency and evidence of content. More details will be posted on SHOWHN in about 3 - 4 weeks when I can get my prototype live.

>It's very exciting to see your feedback on Quora. I'm working on a prototype for my website, knophy.com, that is going to revolve completely around promoting those with competency.

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

Re: Quora pays thousands for posting questions

#35
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What 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.

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Re: Quora pays thousands for posting questions

#36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Copy and paste from comment above. Knophy.com is going to have no ads and is going to promote the usage of competency and evidence of content. More details will be posted on SHOWHN in about 3 - 4 weeks when I can get my prototype live. >It's very exciting to see your feedback on Quora. I'm working on a prototype for my website, knophy.com, that is going to revolve completely around promoting those with competency. On…

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Re: Quora pays thousands for posting questions

#37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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Stop spamming please.

Re: Quora pays thousands for posting questions

#38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

Gonna copy and paste this below, but it's very exciting to see your feedback on Quora. I'm working on a prototype for my website, knophy.com, that is going to revolve completely around promoting those with competency. 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…

I hope you see the irony in this.

Re: Quora pays thousands for posting questions

#39
post #6

What 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.

They realized they could make money selling high quality question/answer pairs to machine learning companies building dialog systems. As a result the more pairs they have, the more their dataset is worth. Buy questions and resell as QA pairs.

Re: Quora pays thousands for posting questions

#40

Earlier 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…

Thank you for your time there. I end up on Quora quite a bit, at least when searching camparison based queries and the really long answers that cover a subject in (sometimes extreme) depth have been fantastic to read. I have read some answers that outperform StackOverflow, StackExchange, and UnixExchange in terms of quality and detail. I love reading answers from people that have intimate knowledge about a subject and don’t just post sourced images or links to documentation that the question asker didn’t understand the first time they read it (which is usually stated up front).

Granted, most of these posts are early 2017 and earlier.

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