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Quora.com has slightly higher link authority than 'new to the internet' site X, so putting as many links to X in Quora boards is a form of search engine optimization (SEO).
Aren't the links nofollowed, though?
" has gripes" => " is dead".
you're either following the wrong topics, people, or just don't have a sense of humor (that bread question was funny as fuck)
there's still tons of high quality content on quora
i.e.
- http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-best-architecture-practic...
- http://www.quora.com/Jeremy-Lin-1/Whats-it-like-to-play-on-t...
- http://www.quora.com/Design/Is-there-a-science-to-picking-th...
ETC. ETC. ETC.
My complaints about Quora: * You have to use a "real" name. * Their members are predominantly white upper middle class tech/finance/marketing professionals - occasionally some Asians, but mainly from California or NY. * There's no good way to browse the site - if there is, it's not easy to find. * Groupthink and being penalized for speaking your mind, both common problems for high-IQ communities.
> Groupthink and being penalized for speaking your mind, both common problems for high-IQ communities. That's what I like about HN. Groupthink is indeed present (especially when it comes to technical topics such as programming languages or OSes - we all have a strong incentive to promote what we use), but not nearly as much as any other online community I'm aware of. There's a recurring pattern that I like here: usua…
My complaints about Quora: * You have to use a "real" name. * Their members are predominantly white upper middle class tech/finance/marketing professionals - occasionally some Asians, but mainly from California or NY. * There's no good way to browse the site - if there is, it's not easy to find. * Groupthink and being penalized for speaking your mind, both common problems for high-IQ communities.
Fear of being ostracized is universal. If anything, I'd say "high-IQ" communities are less susceptible to groupthink and penalizing dissent.
Groupthink different.
...and Ask MetaFilter quietly carries on being fantastic.
"Yeah, I think once we get to 100,000 it could start to get too big. I’m OK with how big it is today. It is a lifestyle business for me—I’m just running this thing and I have a few employees and we’re all happy. What’s better than that?"
He has money. The employes are paid. No need to sell to google.
My complaints about Quora: * You have to use a "real" name. * Their members are predominantly white upper middle class tech/finance/marketing professionals - occasionally some Asians, but mainly from California or NY. * There's no good way to browse the site - if there is, it's not easy to find. * Groupthink and being penalized for speaking your mind, both common problems for high-IQ communities.
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> Groupthink and being penalized for speaking your mind, both common problems for high-IQ communities. That's what I like about HN. Groupthink is indeed present (especially when it comes to technical topics such as programming languages or OSes - we all have a strong incentive to promote what we use), but not nearly as much as any other online community I'm aware of. There's a recurring pattern that I like here: usua…
HN groupthink is getting out of control. No answers but donwvotes to any dissenting comment.
The nature of systematic conversation ensures there will always be groupthink. Systems are designed to function in certain ways and deny other approaches to get their desired result. The result is that people who want this system flock to it, and people who want to somehow act counter to this system are going to be a minority that's possibly chased away by the system itself. Options like downvoting and "ranking" comments" and flagging inappropriate topics basically say that there is a right way to behave or talk, there are topics that are better than others. Then either people are attracted to the sites that reinforce their worldview or they're conditioned by these rules to decide there're right and wrong ways to think or to be – I'm not sure which it is. Probably a little of both.
...and Ask MetaFilter quietly carries on being fantastic.
$5 + one-week filter weeds out people without sufficient prefrontal cortex size (i.e., they don't have patience and can't understand the value of a future payout).
Give credit where credit is due: MeFi's moderation team is hands-down the best on the Internet. It's astonishing how much shit they have to deal with and how good they are at keeping the site civil and high-quality without pushing too many buttons.
My complaints about Quora: * You have to use a "real" name. * Their members are predominantly white upper middle class tech/finance/marketing professionals - occasionally some Asians, but mainly from California or NY. * There's no good way to browse the site - if there is, it's not easy to find. * Groupthink and being penalized for speaking your mind, both common problems for high-IQ communities.
> Groupthink and being penalized for speaking your mind, both common problems for high-IQ communities. That's what I like about HN. Groupthink is indeed present (especially when it comes to technical topics such as programming languages or OSes - we all have a strong incentive to promote what we use), but not nearly as much as any other online community I'm aware of. There's a recurring pattern that I like here: usua…