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Thats the reason they initiated Quora Credits, based on the Variable Rewards http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/25/want-to-hook-your-users-dri...
There's quite a lot of self-promotion going on as well. I haven't done a real survey, so my perception might be off, but I feel like I run across more not-that-great self-cites/self-links in answers than at, for example, StackExchange. I mean, it's fine to link to something of yours (text, software, startup) that is high-quality and directly relevant to the question, but Quora has a lot of answers where the blog/comp…
The problem was that there was no barrier to entry, and therefore there was no way to prevent people from misusing it. The intellectual value of Quora dropped as more and more people who had no reservations about posting inherently useless questions joined. If there was a system for filtering out questions from less authoritative or knowledgeable figures, they could have prevented this.
I never really understood how moderation works on Quora so I assumed there was none. Not to say that I hate Quora (I like it a lot), I just feel there is nothing preventing it from becoming Yahoo Answers in a couple years time. No barrier, no moderation.
As a longtime online community manager, this piece strikes me as another entry in the time-honored tradition of "this place changed and now I don't like it" complaints. Yes, everything changes. No, it's not the same as when you joined. That's not Quora, that's life.
This comment doesn't actually say anything. Yes, things change. Yes, that's a part of life. That doesn't automatically make all change for the better.
I find it useful to be reminded that as a species mankind hasn't figured out how to grow things without changing them (and so exposing them to the possibility of decline).
If you ask a question or present a point of view that's outside of conventional thinking, its common to see those views lambasted in the comments. Quora is definitely not a place for "things you can't say" (http://paulgraham.com/say.html).
[1] http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-facebook-friends-20120...
There's quite a lot of self-promotion going on as well. I haven't done a real survey, so my perception might be off, but I feel like I run across more not-that-great self-cites/self-links in answers than at, for example, StackExchange. I mean, it's fine to link to something of yours (text, software, startup) that is high-quality and directly relevant to the question, but Quora has a lot of answers where the blog/comp…
Quora.com has slightly higher link authority than 'new to the internet' site X, so putting as many links to X in Quora boards is a form of search engine optimization (SEO).
As a longtime online community manager, this piece strikes me as another entry in the time-honored tradition of "this place changed and now I don't like it" complaints. Yes, everything changes. No, it's not the same as when you joined. That's not Quora, that's life.
Community launches with savvy early adopters. The success starts to bring in new people. The community slowly begins to evolve. Early adopters start complaining that all the new people are ruining it.
See Reddit, HN, et al.
There is one explanation for this move though. Pinterest-envy.