Whatever happened to Quora? • Hacker News Board

Re: Whatever happened to Quora?

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Post by wwkeyboard » Mon, Apr 04, 2011, 1:23 AM UTC

benologist wrote: post #18

TC pumped and dumped them. It will be interesting to see if they can stand on their own two feet but I doubt they will. The homepage is anti-new users, and if you register in spite of that you better subscribe to popular topics or else you'll have no new content and no reason to come back.

I wonder how much of the new-user experience is to avoid an eternal september? Allowing people to easily sounds off on a few things and leave(like I'm doing right now) is not conducive to building a community.

Re: Whatever happened to Quora?

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Post by thwarted » Mon, Apr 04, 2011, 2:06 AM UTC

shadowsun7 wrote: post #39

andrewcooke wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ha. I guess you don't realise he's on there because he's an investor in early tech companies in the Bay Area? And he's been there for ages.

I do know that. My point is that of his answers: Kutcher is a movie industry insider, and he responds to questions about the movie industry.

I found his content on quora hard to read because of the spelling mistakes and general lack of formatting (stream of thought style of writing does equate to easy to consume writing). And even though people had suggested edits, he never seemed to accept them/fold them back into his post.

Re: Whatever happened to Quora?

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Post by stc » Mon, Apr 04, 2011, 2:31 PM UTC

pacohn wrote: post #13

RBr wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The rate of people who would visit your new product and then immediately leave would be high. Generally, this is called bounce rate. A few people might see your product and stick around, but I think that the brand confusion (and potential law suit) might be strong enough con's to negate these few users.

> The rate of people who would visit your new product and then immediately leave would be high. Generally, this is called bounce rate. Would that be a bad thing? Even those that left would then know that your site existed, which isn't without value. As far as names matching a character in a movie, I think it would be very difficult to make a suit out of this. If anything, you could then change your name slightly, and…

It would create more noise when trying to optimize your site to reduce the bounce rate which is a bad thing.