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"Engagement-driven" product development is a very poor choice. You might be optimising for the short-term and your personal product manager performance review. But other than that it will slowly kill your product.
Reddit has been "slowly killing" their product for a long time now, and it's bigger than ever. Problem is this stuff actually does work if you want to mass market.
Is there an industry term for users who are responsible for contributing valuable content in exchange for nothing that could be legally classified as actual compensation? Or for a business whose revenue and valuation depends on said type of user? Something Awful is the first example of such a business that comes to mind, and Reddit is the biggest modern-day equivalent. Give your moderators power (however feeble that…
It's sometimes described as 'digital sharecropping'[0]. Depending on your reason for participating you may get some economic benefit (perhaps as share or exposure for your business) while the platform both takes the bulk of any profits and completely controls the relationship. Or you may get nothing, of course, other than some magic Internet points and a faintly tarnished sense of fun. [0]: https://www.roughtype.com/…
This is really sad. After Yahoo Answers shut down, only Quora, W3Schools and Pinterest are left standing as informational beacons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Answers
I unsubscribed from Quora emails because I was troubled by all of the engagement manipulation in what they sent me and how well it worked . As long as it works on people and creators and consumers don’t punish platforms for promoting manipulative content, these things will continue to exist. You can blame as much as you want but these things will never go away until people learn to leave them. Demonizing things doesn…
Exactly the same with me. Each time I received a Quora digest mail, I thought that I cannot get manipulated to open these spammy questions. But normally I clicked on multiple links leading to those answers.
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Admittedly this is one explanation, another could be that people simple like helping others.
Some people like the puzzle/challenge aspect as well. Plus somebody asking something you know the answer to reinforces that your decision to retain that information has value. I'm a librarian. We answer a lot of questions.
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>Were people ever in Quora? It briefly had hn like quality to it. Then they got acquired (I think) stuck a login wall in front of it and the spark died.
The login wall probably marginally increased whatever signup metrics they were tracking and some middle manager at Quora probably patted themselves on the head for a job well done for that genius idea, but it killed my interest in Quora too. I can't be bothered to try and login every single time and I just started purposefully avoiding Quora links going forward once that was implemented. And it's a shame because the…
This really makes my heart sink. It's not just that a top poster is leaving because they feel it hasn't been worth it in any real sense ("financial ... socially ... acclaim ... personal growth") but also because all that knowledge is now effectively behind a gate that will almost surely be lost within a couple decades. The Quora terms of service forbid "automated tools" and have a system that provides at least some a…
If the answers are good, then I feel like the e-book should be worthwhile. I'd be interested in seeing it, but he didn't link it? Why not?
Personally I've enjoyed several books that are just non-linear collections of essays or excerpts from other material. It's fun to flip through even if you read the whole thing.
I recall one prolific HN commenter did that (but I wasn't in the target audience so I can't judge either way)
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It's sometimes described as 'digital sharecropping'[0]. Depending on your reason for participating you may get some economic benefit (perhaps as share or exposure for your business) while the platform both takes the bulk of any profits and completely controls the relationship. Or you may get nothing, of course, other than some magic Internet points and a faintly tarnished sense of fun. [0]: https://www.roughtype.com/…
> the platform both takes the bulk of any profits and completely controls the relationship [...] you may get nothing, of course, other than some magic Internet points and a faintly tarnished sense of fun The magic points are a kind of worthless scrip. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrip
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