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Agreed with you on the crappiness of Techcrunch. However it's a bit low calling someone out as an ex-alcoholic. Call him out on the quality and integrity of his articles by all means. But his alleged alcoholism - true or otherwise - is nobody's business but his and his family's.
And this gets a downvote why ?
"Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."
I don't know much about Quora, and have never used it, so I can't comment on its chances of success. But I really don't like the name, and I think it may hold them back, as far as mainstream adoption goes. It's not an attractive name to begin with, and I don't quite know how to pronounce it: koo aura or kwaura (rhymes with Laura)? If we're comparing Quora to Facebook and Twitter, it loses the name game by a mile. Fac…
Something no one else has mentioned yet (perhaps for fear of plunging down the meta discussion rabbit hole) is the degree to which HN competes with Quora. As a small experiment, I'd previously posed roughly the same question to both HN and Quora. http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-optimum-pricing-strategy-fo... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2097527 The response from HN absolutely destroyed the response from Quora…
Your "evidence" is anecdotal. Compare this to an answer like this on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Venture-Capital/How-can-I-prevent-share... . There are things I'd rather ask about on HN, and the same applies to Quora.
I'd be very interested in knowing your criteria for which site to ask what kinds of questions.
My problem with the Quora hype is that its only in the TechCrunch echo chamber. Even relatively tech saavy people I know don't know Quora unless they read TechCrunch (and a LOT of very techincal people don't read TechCrunch). And I don't mean they know about it, just haven't used it. I mean they literally haven't heard of it before. I've never been to Quora and this is somewhat surprising given the number of Google/B…
Something no one else has mentioned yet (perhaps for fear of plunging down the meta discussion rabbit hole) is the degree to which HN competes with Quora. As a small experiment, I'd previously posed roughly the same question to both HN and Quora. http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-optimum-pricing-strategy-fo... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2097527 The response from HN absolutely destroyed the response from Quora…
Your "evidence" is anecdotal. Compare this to an answer like this on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Venture-Capital/How-can-I-prevent-share... . There are things I'd rather ask about on HN, and the same applies to Quora.
My problem with the Quora hype is that its only in the TechCrunch echo chamber. Even relatively tech saavy people I know don't know Quora unless they read TechCrunch (and a LOT of very techincal people don't read TechCrunch). And I don't mean they know about it, just haven't used it. I mean they literally haven't heard of it before. I've never been to Quora and this is somewhat surprising given the number of Google/B…
Is this not because Quora isn't public / accessible to search engines? I was under the impression it was facebook login only.
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Agreed with you on the crappiness of Techcrunch. However it's a bit low calling someone out as an ex-alcoholic. Call him out on the quality and integrity of his articles by all means. But his alleged alcoholism - true or otherwise - is nobody's business but his and his family's.
And this gets a downvote why ?
But I honestly think it's not as bad as you make it out to be. Remember, Paul Carr basically makes a living talking about himself, including talking (at length) about his antics, especially while drinking. He also publicly announced his decision to stop drinking, and brings it up quite a lot.
I wouldn't go around referring to him as an ex-alcoholic, especially not in such a way, but Paul Carr has definitely made discussions of the subject relevant to more people than his immediate family.
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Agreed with you on the crappiness of Techcrunch. However it's a bit low calling someone out as an ex-alcoholic. Call him out on the quality and integrity of his articles by all means. But his alleged alcoholism - true or otherwise - is nobody's business but his and his family's.
And this gets a downvote why ?
My problem with the Quora hype is that its only in the TechCrunch echo chamber. Even relatively tech saavy people I know don't know Quora unless they read TechCrunch (and a LOT of very techincal people don't read TechCrunch). And I don't mean they know about it, just haven't used it. I mean they literally haven't heard of it before. I've never been to Quora and this is somewhat surprising given the number of Google/B…
Quora's gotten recent press in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, NBC, etc. etc. ... just try Googling them. So the hype's gone beyond the echo chamber.
I heard directly from a journalist at one of these publications that they have been directed to pursuit the latest hot startups so that they don't miss out again.
I am surprised by the fact that arrington allowed an article that criticizes tehcrunch for being hype machine (which it is). Regarding quora, yes it gets too much techcrunch attention but it is not as flawed as the writer thinks, quora generates quality content thanks to its quality users, while quality may start to decline as number of users grows(something that happens to almost all startups) it is possible to prev…
MA stresses that each writer has editorial independence, and there isn't a "techcrunch view" per se on any subject.