Why Quora Won't Scale

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Post by desbest » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 8:28 PM UTC

Re: Why Quora Won't Scale

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Post by agscala » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 8:59 PM UTC

This article makes Quora sound almost like Digg back in the day, with a select few users who work together to ensure they control most of the content on the site.

Re: Why Quora Won't Scale

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Post by webwanderings » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 9:15 PM UTC

agscala wrote: post #2

This article makes Quora sound almost like Digg back in the day, with a select few users who work together to ensure they control most of the content on the site.

Quora has been a fine weekly newsletter. So what if most often you see a 25 year old millionaire against another 25 year old millionaire going about their gripe and appreciation of newly acquired money!

As a weekly email newsletter, I get nicely curated content without participating a minute of my time at the site.

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Post by andrewcooke » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 9:16 PM UTC

we're still using the present tense? shouldn't this be "why quora did not scale"?

or is exponential growth one more thing that isn't the same as it was back in the day?

Re: Why Quora Won't Scale

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Post by andrewcooke » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 9:18 PM UTC

webwanderings wrote: post #3

agscala wrote: post #2

This article makes Quora sound almost like Digg back in the day, with a select few users who work together to ensure they control most of the content on the site.

Quora has been a fine weekly newsletter. So what if most often you see a 25 year old millionaire against another 25 year old millionaire going about their gripe and appreciation of newly acquired money! As a weekly email newsletter, I get nicely curated content without participating a minute of my time at the site.

personally, i wish they would follow the legal guidelines for unsubscription that were posted here a few days ago.

i've tried several times to unsubscribe, and failed.

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 9:29 PM UTC

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Post by creativityland » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 9:29 PM UTC

andrewcooke wrote: post #5

webwanderings wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Quora has been a fine weekly newsletter. So what if most often you see a 25 year old millionaire against another 25 year old millionaire going about their gripe and appreciation of newly acquired money! As a weekly email newsletter, I get nicely curated content without participating a minute of my time at the site.

personally, i wish they would follow the legal guidelines for unsubscription that were posted here a few days ago. i've tried several times to unsubscribe, and failed.

You are not alone...

Re: Why Quora Won't Scale

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Post by eslackey » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 9:31 PM UTC

You should ask this question on Quora

Re: Why Quora Won't Scale

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Post by desbest » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 9:32 PM UTC

andrewcooke wrote: post #5

webwanderings wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Quora has been a fine weekly newsletter. So what if most often you see a 25 year old millionaire against another 25 year old millionaire going about their gripe and appreciation of newly acquired money! As a weekly email newsletter, I get nicely curated content without participating a minute of my time at the site.

personally, i wish they would follow the legal guidelines for unsubscription that were posted here a few days ago. i've tried several times to unsubscribe, and failed.

I unsubscribed, and a few weeks later I automatically got subscribed again.

Re: Why Quora Won't Scale

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Post by wilfra » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 9:38 PM UTC

Sounds like the author got banned for excessive complaining on Quora and is exceptionally butthurt.

I'm a hard core Quora addict and have never encountered most of the things in this post. He's way off about the "elite". Yes there are people who get tons of upvotes and have huge followings but in every case I've seen it's because they are well known off of Quora or they give consistently amazing answers, often both.

It's not like Digg was where some random anonymous person has all this power. Quora power users don't even really have any power beyond knowing lots of people will read their answers, even then those answers still must be good to get upvotes.