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Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora

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Post by skrebbel »

mickhagen wrote: post #119
pg wrote: post #49

I think Adam's mistake here is to go too much by the numbers. He presumably has numbers that show that Quora ends up net ahead if they force people to create accounts to read answers. He grew Facebook very effectively by following the numbers. But he may not realize how different this case is from Facebook's. It may well be that for a site like Quora, at this stage in its life, users are not all equal. It may be a mi…

Here comes the mob. Really? Are we all gonna throw up our arms because of this? We use their service, we consume, read and digest their content like blood-suckers and now we get mad they're asking us to sign up? PG you've been reading Quora for "several years" and you think it's unjust they are asking you to sign up? Quora has let us eat at their house for years and now all they're asking is we take off our shoes bef…

I disagree with your point but also disagree with the downvotes. (are people downvoting commenters who disagree with pg?)

Anyway, you're forgetting something important: We're completely entitled to not use a sucky service and blog about it. That's what going on here: there's people who decide to vote with their feet, and tell others about it.

Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora

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Post by lusr »

Katelyn wrote: post #127
mickhagen wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here comes the mob. Really? Are we all gonna throw up our arms because of this? We use their service, we consume, read and digest their content like blood-suckers and now we get mad they're asking us to sign up? PG you've been reading Quora for "several years" and you think it's unjust they are asking you to sign up? Quora has let us eat at their house for years and now all they're asking is we take off our shoes bef…

I agree with this argument, but not necessarily the tone of it. Quora is a business as much as it is a consumer facing service with a strong mission to uphold. But the reality is, if Quora didn't keep its numbers out of the red and into the black by doing "annoying things" like forcing app downloads or account creation, then they would run out of capital and cease to exist. So, take your pick. Or better yet, just sto…

The StackExchange network does very well without resorting to any of these tactics.

Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora

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Post by eshvk »

I don't agree with the author's opinion on the New York times's block being inherently evil. I am unsure of how else they could make money. The block is not hard to circumvent if you know enough to clear cookies. It is designed to give you just enough discomfort that you will probably cough up and pay for the articles (which are incredibly well written) than the Quora style which makes me want to rage and delete my account.

Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora

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Post by rurounijones »

rdl wrote: post #55
rurounijones wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a good place to use alsfkj@example.com With example.com (which cannot be registered) you know you are not potentially smacking around the domain of a poor company

I usually use the site's own domain -- so a fake account on quora gets an @quora.com domain.

Hah! That is brilliant, love that idea, there is a certain sense of poetic justice.

Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora

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Post by [deleted] »

rdl wrote: post #55
rurounijones wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a good place to use alsfkj@example.com With example.com (which cannot be registered) you know you are not potentially smacking around the domain of a poor company

I usually use the site's own domain -- so a fake account on quora gets an @quora.com domain.

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Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora

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Post by eshvk »

dclowd9901 wrote: post #91
pg wrote: post #49

I think Adam's mistake here is to go too much by the numbers. He presumably has numbers that show that Quora ends up net ahead if they force people to create accounts to read answers. He grew Facebook very effectively by following the numbers. But he may not realize how different this case is from Facebook's. It may well be that for a site like Quora, at this stage in its life, users are not all equal. It may be a mi…

>Quora has now spent several years training me to be bummed out every time I click on a link to their site. "Bummed". Yeah that really describes it perfectly. Especially with how immaculately their digest emails are constructed, to be hit with that asinine wall is a straight-up bummer, and stops me dead in my tracks.

Yeah, I have been incredibly impressed by how good their digest email is designed. I am sure there is a serious amount of cherry picking (or machine learning) that goes into them but they are damn good, I say.

Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora

#139

Post by mickhagen »

skrebbel wrote: post #131
mickhagen wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here comes the mob. Really? Are we all gonna throw up our arms because of this? We use their service, we consume, read and digest their content like blood-suckers and now we get mad they're asking us to sign up? PG you've been reading Quora for "several years" and you think it's unjust they are asking you to sign up? Quora has let us eat at their house for years and now all they're asking is we take off our shoes bef…

I disagree with your point but also disagree with the downvotes. (are people downvoting commenters who disagree with pg?) Anyway, you're forgetting something important: We're completely entitled to not use a sucky service and blog about it. That's what going on here: there's people who decide to vote with their feet, and tell others about it.

I have no problem with people voicing an opinion -- it's America. But what I think people are complaining about in this case is just ridiculous.
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