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I must have missed the good early days of Quora because I have always found everything about it to be extremely sucky.
I can't think of a single meaningful thing I have read on that site, now I just have it blocked from search results.
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Niche subreddits are still decent but the community as a whole is a cesspool. The mistake was bringing internet to the masses, as opposed to keeping it difficult enough to be used only by passionate and/or smart people. Now that the cat is out of the bag maybe paid memberships to exclusive communities is the way to go? Just late night riffing here after a few drinks and, might be wrong about all of the above.
There's always 4chan if you want to feel exclusivity.
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
W3Schools and Pinterest? I don't think they are the same kind of platform
I must have missed the good early days of Quora because I have always found everything about it to be extremely sucky.
However it was from the beginning an unsustainable business, fueled by VC.
This is me, couldn't put it better.
Thanks
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People like helping people, it gives them a sense of self-worth. Answering questions also can make you feel smart. Now think about how many important websites are functionally built by free labor due to this: Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, subreddits you like, this site etc. It doesn't seem sustainable does it?
It’s not all altruism. Answering interesting questions is a fabulous way of improving your own knowledge of a particular topic. It’s not until you start to explain something to someone else that you realise all the gaps in your own understanding. Many times, I would see a Stack Exchange and think “that’s a quick and/or easy question to answer” – only to discover there are more subtleties and possible edge cases to co…
I was trawling back through my Stack Overflow answers which go all the way back to the closed beta. Some of them I looked at and thought "am I getting old or stupid, past me seems super decent at this stuff". I wondered if it was just me but it's a relief to know someone else has these feelings.