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Quora is the only site that I actively block to make sure that I don’t go there by mistake. It has to be the worse site on the internet.
nah i think pinterest is even a notch worse
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Which is how it works. It is an encyclopaedia, not a breaking news site.
The problem is that PR companies can push out whatever they want, where as an ordinary individual with personal knowledge of a topic, can't. It means many Wiki articles on person or companies, are often glorified advertisements, rather than encyclopedic entries.
I remember when nascent Wikipedia had user-contributed content, and the niche articles were way more interesting and detailed. Though at the cost of inaccuracy.
Now, the submarine PR being backfed into it makes cited content pretty beige.
Something like (1) a non-reader-visible, upstream Wikifacts + (2) a community-driven, laxer Wikiprototype + (3) an authoritative, cited Wikipedia.
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> they realized they had no idea how to monetize the content This sort of thing should be a nonprofit. When it was good, it was literally making the world a better place. Possibly the Library of Congress would be a good steward for such a platform. Something to make it resistant to enshittification.
Agreed re: being a non-profit. My great hope was that Elon might do that with Twitter. Needless to say, I was… not right about that.
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Agreed re: being a non-profit. My great hope was that Elon might do that with Twitter. Needless to say, I was… not right about that.
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In fact till mid-1993, with a few unimportant exceptions (Clari-Net, early "retail" ISPs like Netcom) the entire Internet, which was already the largest network of computers by a comfortable margin, was non-profit.
Make an app get VC money and jump ship to cool new tech.
Had great potential but sadly went tits up.
I wonder why no good CRUDs come from europe. But then i remember they are busy moping.
i dont trust the founder
If your core business product is content contributed by users... I'm turning to the opinion that you need a C-level ombudsman- / dean of contributors-type role. Whose sole job it is to (1) figure out what contributors are thinking and want & (2) advocate for them inside the company. Every contributor-driven platform has eventually jumped the shark, and all in exactly the same way. Management begins to take contributi…
What would be a platform that is NOT contributor-driven ??
Quora has never been a good resource. It was always designed to trick users into clicking through from a SERP with snippet content that isn't on the landing page when you arrive. It is the same business model as Pinterest. The amazing thing is that Euro regulators have for years been trying to favor this business model, trying to force Google to rank these types of sites highly under the banner of competition, when w…
The problem I have is, the content I usually see is essentially the regurigation of youtube videos stealing from imdb's trivia section: "Top 10 things you didn't know about $film!"
Quora does the same thing for clicks in a way, and it ends up being misleading.
When I visit Quora, mainly through it being a result for something I've searched for on Google, I can never quite understand what's the question, the answer, and what's an answer to something completely different. So I've never felt compelled to stay or join myself. Also, for a while I just hit a login wall, which of course makes you not click a link there the next time.
The single change they made that killed the platform was changing the dropdown default from "answers to the question" to "answers to related questions". Absolutely insane.