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Re: This is a bit f'd, Quora

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Post by shmageggy »

yuvadam wrote: post #53
its_so_on wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blhack, I ran across this comment of yours - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4377315 - and certainly appreciate your privacy concerns. A healthy private life is undoubtedly everyone's personal choice. At the same time, HackerNews is YCombinator's tech blog, and highly visible. Frankly, your opinion comes off as somewhat paranoid. It's not that it isn't justified, I'm not saying that one way or another, but I woul…

... the fuck did I just read?

It appears to be a satirical, role-playing meta-comment about the new social web being creepy. The post seems to contain a bunch of quasi-personal info mined from the web.

Re: This is a bit f'd, Quora

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Post by wtvanhest »

nandemo wrote: post #39
its_so_on wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blhack, I ran across this comment of yours - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4377315 - and certainly appreciate your privacy concerns. A healthy private life is undoubtedly everyone's personal choice. At the same time, HackerNews is YCombinator's tech blog, and highly visible. Frankly, your opinion comes off as somewhat paranoid. It's not that it isn't justified, I'm not saying that one way or another, but I woul…

Relevant: (?) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4366002

This has to be a joke. If so, it is kind of funny. If not, it is ridiculous.

Re: This is a bit f'd, Quora

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Post by SkyMarshal »

jrockway wrote: post #51
its_so_on wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blhack, I ran across this comment of yours - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4377315 - and certainly appreciate your privacy concerns. A healthy private life is undoubtedly everyone's personal choice. At the same time, HackerNews is YCombinator's tech blog, and highly visible. Frankly, your opinion comes off as somewhat paranoid. It's not that it isn't justified, I'm not saying that one way or another, but I woul…

What? I'm not sure what's going on here. If you want to send blhack an email, do that. This personal letter is not an appropriate use of HN comments. And sending private messages in public is quite non-cool.

I think it was meant as a demonstration of the 'creepy social web'.

Re: This is a bit f'd, Quora

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Post by georgemcbay »

incision wrote: post #38

Smells desperate to me. Quora launched with all kinds of "Former Facebooker!" hype that it hasn't really lived up to. I've had some good reads on the site, but only from the cream of the crop threads that make it into the digest emails. Searching out a general question on Quora seems more likely to lead directly to hordes of marketers linking back to their own sites.

"Quora launched with all kinds of "Former Facebooker!" hype that it hasn't really lived up to."

With all of these privacy issues popping up with them the past couple of weeks I'd venture to say their "Former Facebooker!" hype is being lived up to quite well.

Re: This is a bit f'd, Quora

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Post by Splines »

timmyd wrote: post #11

Indeed the problem - as with Facebook - is that these settings are constantly "opt-out". This is perhaps as bad as the Beacon program in that as the author correctly originally notes - some personal items might be "viewed" which subsequently detail their actions to other users which they never intended to be public. Classic examples of mistakes in the past are like "How to propose?" or "What's a good engagement ring…

Even with opt-out, it can make you wonder if Quora is still keeping this data. What stops them from disabling the opt-out portion of the feature and "outing" everybody?

Re: This is a bit f'd, Quora

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Post by AznHisoka »

tatsuke95 wrote: post #46
diego wrote: post #5

I get the impression that Quora is in a tough spot because of the perceived implosion of the "social bubble" after the FB IPO. They have $61M in funding [1], which means that their investors must be demanding bold moves. I don't personally know anyone who works there, so it's pure speculation. [1] http://www.crunchbase.com/company/quora

> "They have $61M in funding [1], which means that their investors must be demanding bold moves." Like a business plan? Who knew that they'd be actually expected to offer a return on that money at some point? I'd love to know where that money is going/has gone. Edit: Oh. http://www.quora.com/Quora-company/Why-is-Quora-moving-to-Mo...

4 times their current size of 40 employees? This is Digg 2.0 all over time.

The obvious question: Why the HECK do they need 40, let alone 160 employees?!

Re: This is a bit f'd, Quora

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Post by mtgx »

brown9-2 wrote: post #55
blhack wrote: post #4

The new "social" web is really creepy . Browsing in an incognito browser and logged into nothing has sortof become my default. I don't want google chrome saving my search history, or to accidentally read an article on some news website that then broadcasts that fact to all of my facebook friends.

I think actions like this give everyone a bad name. I'm not sure if it's the "social web" being creepy - it's Quora being really creepy, and destroying their own goodwill.

Well it seems they've learned from the company they came from - Facebook.
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