I actually like Quora a lot. I see that it gets a lot of hate on HN and I've never felt it was wholly deserved. I understand Quora had some hostile practices in

I actually like Quora a lot. I see that it gets a lot of hate on HN and I've never felt it was wholly deserved. I understand Quora had some hostile practices in the past towards users and has made some bad decisions at times, and I've even spoken against their login policy here on more than one occasion, but I have to say that I'm still fond of the overall product and experience. It's exceptionally polished and it certainly has succeeded in producing a valuable resource which improved upon or fixed many of the issues of Yahoo! Answers. I hope Quora continues to find success for years to come. I see others are mentioning Stack Exchange, but I think the two communities are entirely different. Stack Exchange is good when you have a very precise question which likely has a very precise answer and can easily be categorized into a very precise topic. If any of those three conditions fails, you're more likely to just meet hostility there than to get an enjoyable discussion.