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PG spoke of this (an essay perhaps?).
Why should we be surprised? Culture is the most important thing in a business, morals to a person. Why would we be able to get it right online at scale without a few hiccups (and a lot of dissent).
It's almost a law of social gravity.
I'm still unable to get a clear answer to the basic question "Why should I use Quora?" I work at a startup in Austin, I read HN daily, I enjoy news about SV startups, etc. Still, I haven't found a compelling reason to spend any substantial time on Quora. I'm happy to read a particularly insightful answer when I see the occasional link pop up on another site, but that doesn't make me want to search Quora for other inf…
If you're not in a tech field, say as a screenwriter in Hollywood—excellent Quora use case, btw—it's a great way to build your brand and increase your chances of discovery/personal breakout. Quora helped me launch my career, working with Startup Visa. It's gotten me political meetings and was warmly received as I'm applying for a fellowship.
Quora's a publishing platform with an increasing number of ways to get into publications. Right now, the two big ones are Forbes, Huffington Post, but I'm sure they're expanding in that direction, based on the utter awesomeness of their weekly and daily digests in contrast with the eh launches of most of their technical additions, from credits on to views.
As a political person, I love it, definitely the best place for thoughtful, civil political discussion on the web, even if that has its failure modes.
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.…
"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"." You know, I think I can see where she may be coming from with some of these complaints.
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You briefly mentioned Reddit, it sounds like there's a lot of potential overlap in the demographic (and certain subreddits, especially AskReddit). You might want to add a "How is it different from Reddit". Also, I'm still struggling to understand the vision from your description here and there. I hope you can find a way to be more succinct. The main example I see here is Kate Middleton's dress, which afaict would be…
There is definitely overlap, which is why I mentioned reddit :) Overlap doesn't have to be a bad thing. Reddit is one my favorite sites. users can visit reddit as well as visit pozium. Pozium wouldn't be link-based. Users would publish essays or insights or ask questions. Pozium is based around concepts. Not article links. Sorry I didn't want to go into pozium on HN. I linked to a more articulate description of the v…
I am sorry but that is exactly the kind of overall experience that I would like on Quora. For everything pun-ny and funny, I can visit the dozens of forums that are out there already, like Reddit for example. Unfortunately, for me at least, I am unable to find very articulate and brilliant threads, content and not humour, on Reddit - either they do not exist or the admins do a very poor job at SEO. More importantly, nearly always are there people who would mess with the mood of the thread using a lame-ass pun or in most cases dumb wordplay initiating a series of similar worthless replies all over. Of course, you would mention that in some of the more serious forums they would be downvoted to hell but then they are no better than Quora anyway, according to your standards.
> "intellectuals who don't have a stick up their behind" And please stop calling names.
Seeing as I live in New York, I am by definition not part of the Silicon Valley in-crowd. My experience on Quora has been extremely positive. Right now, it's one of the best online communities for quality of content. People who call Quora a nasty community because of downvoting have no idea what they're talking about. Wikipedia in 2004-5 was nasty. Personal attacks all over the place, edit wars and tag teaming (troll…
Anonymity (pseudo-anonymity) certainly has downsides but over the years I have found the better thoughts come from posters who are _not_ attaching themselves to a Real Name(TM) that is connected to a web site^W business that would love to attract more followers^W customers. Anonymous comments have to stand on their own. They can't rely on name association. The reader has to evaluate them for their content, not their…
Seeing as I live in New York, I am by definition not part of the Silicon Valley in-crowd. My experience on Quora has been extremely positive. Right now, it's one of the best online communities for quality of content. People who call Quora a nasty community because of downvoting have no idea what they're talking about. Wikipedia in 2004-5 was nasty. Personal attacks all over the place, edit wars and tag teaming (troll…
One thing that really surprises me is how much some people think the speed of the site matters to the average user. I think the technology they built is amazing, as a software engineer, I am constantly impressed with everything they are doing. I have recommended the site to most of my non-tech friends and they laugh when I try to explain how cool that technology is (I even taught a few of them what Comet is). For the site to become mainstream, I think assumes most people are actually interested in reading/creating quality content - but that is the minority.
Seeing as I live in New York, I am by definition not part of the Silicon Valley in-crowd. My experience on Quora has been extremely positive. Right now, it's one of the best online communities for quality of content. People who call Quora a nasty community because of downvoting have no idea what they're talking about. Wikipedia in 2004-5 was nasty. Personal attacks all over the place, edit wars and tag teaming (troll…
I'm a lurker on Quora, but would like to state that I've really enjoyed your answers on Quora. You're the only person I've actually bothered to go through the history of on Quora before.
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Quora has found its niche among intellectuals who don't mind the stringent rules, and that's great. It's just not for me, and I suspect from what I've observed that it's not for a lot of other people too. Which means that "Quora will never grow to to the size of facebook or reddit". Let's temper our expectations, people. Quora is fine for what it is. Are there lessons to be learned from Quora? I think so. I've though…
You describe some dire, humorless Quora, not the one I use. I've seen plenty of misspellings. Founder (and Harvard grad) Charlie Cheever used "its" instead of "it's" several times in one answer. I've made typos that I went back and corrected myself. Humor: https://www.quora.com/Ultimate-Frisbee/Is-it-possible-to-pla... https://www.quora.com/Marc-Bodnick-1/Does-Marc-Bodnick-ever-... https://www.quora.com/Chief-Executi…
Gee, Quora _does_ sound like a really great party!
I'm still unable to get a clear answer to the basic question "Why should I use Quora?" I work at a startup in Austin, I read HN daily, I enjoy news about SV startups, etc. Still, I haven't found a compelling reason to spend any substantial time on Quora. I'm happy to read a particularly insightful answer when I see the occasional link pop up on another site, but that doesn't make me want to search Quora for other inf…
Doesn't mean I think this situation is OK...still trying to discern whether I should care.