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What is it about Quora that draws so many prestigious people to answer?
by da02 8y ago
What is it about Quora that draws so many prestigious people to answer?
- adventured 8y agoThe same reason Facebook took off like it did. In Facebook's case, it was famously harvard.edu. A lot of people want to belong to or participate in exclusive clubs. Something other people are widely excluded from. The commons is Answers.com or Yahoo Answers. The people writing junk and spam questions & answers on Yahoo Answers, are not participating on Quora. In Quora's case, it was that it originated / spread out of prestigious tech circles. A small group of connected, rather elite, techies out of Silicon Valley seeded the site in its early days. Those people were connected to other prestigious tech people, and so it went. Adam D'Angelo is one of Quora's two founders, the former CTO of Facebook, and is a near-billionaire that went to Exeter with Zuckerberg and then CIT. Elite + connected. Then last but not least, Quora enforces fairly high standards on quality, similar to why Stack Overflow isn't overflowing with trash despite its immense scale.
- tambre 8y ago> similar to why Stack Overflow isn't overflowing with trash despite its immense scale Oh boy. You haven't checked out the newest questions page on SO, have you? There are oh so many new low-quality questions. That said, they're mostly so badly written, that they rarely show up on Google. But if you're actually trying to answer questions, then good luck finding any worth answering. I simply gave up answering questions unless I stumble upon them while googling.