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Some of my employees are ex-Quora employees. The company is a dumpster fire. It has a lot of turnover and huge quality-of-life issues for employees. I agree that it's over-obsessed with the real-world reputations of its users. It also kills its young. If your reputation gets "too big", you get banned, just like a card counter gets kicked out of casinos.
Sure there are some spam and useless answers, but there are experienced users as well who contributing with great answers. Everyone good on Quora is going to get "Church'd" soon enough. The moderators have done everything they can to drive out quality. The ban of Michael O. Church (who was a moderate, thoughtful member of that community, regardless of his divisive presence here) convinced me of that. I also find it i…
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Some of my employees are ex-Quora employees. The company is a dumpster fire. It has a lot of turnover and huge quality-of-life issues for employees. I agree that it's over-obsessed with the real-world reputations of its users. It also kills its young. If your reputation gets "too big", you get banned, just like a card counter gets kicked out of casinos.
Some of my employees are ex-Quora employees. The company is a dumpster fire. It has a lot of turnover and huge quality-of-life issues for employees. I agree that it's over-obsessed with the real-world reputations of its users. It also kills its young. If your reputation gets "too big", you get banned, just like a card counter gets kicked out of casinos.
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There were four people I considered genuinely worth reading. Only one of them still posts, and sporadically. One got banned, and Quora lied about why it banned him, damaging his professional reputation. One left because she got harassing PMs. The other, I don't know what happened. I think he had a falling out with moderators but I can't get the details. He just stopped posting.
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Sure there are some spam and useless answers, but there are experienced users as well who contributing with great answers. Everyone good on Quora is going to get "Church'd" soon enough. The moderators have done everything they can to drive out quality. The ban of Michael O. Church (who was a moderate, thoughtful member of that community, regardless of his divisive presence here) convinced me of that. I also find it i…
Quora has always given me a creepy feeling of a walled garden for information that has no business being in a walled garden. Facebook locks up social graphs, events between friends, relationships, birthdays? NBD imho. But trying to corner a knowledge market in a closed way is a really anti-web kind of thing to do.
Then how do you feel about Stackoverflow?
Advertising is where business ideas go to die. (but with obvious exceptions). Answers on Quora are really good its the Question quality that bothers me. Its like people ask for things just for the sake of asking.
It seems to be the last resort to make money if you haven't got a real business. Not everything has to be a business though. Quora (in my mind, at least) would be good in a distributed/federal setup, as would twitter.
I'd like to see page views from logged-in members and number of active users instead of general hits. I think that would give us a more honest picture of its uptake. Anyone have that information?
Quora's problems today are a direct result of what made them popular: celebrity. They made a great big splash when the media genuflected to the idea that "You can ask a question about Facebook, and Mark Zuckerberg could answer! " So regardless of the question or answer there will always be dominance by celebrities and their celebrators gleefully upvoting anything they post regardless of underlying fact. I prefer Stac…
FWIW, I agree with you; I find it a little gross and fawning with a lot of appeal to authority.