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Quora has become an absolute cess-pool of thinly veiled content marketing / spam and pseudo-intellectual self-help Ted-talky BS, in my experience at least. Whe
by handsomechad 8y ago
Quora has become an absolute cess-pool of thinly veiled content marketing / spam and pseudo-intellectual self-help Ted-talky BS, in my experience at least.
When it was first out there were a lot of smart writers posting thought-provoking content, a lot of (SV) insiders giving interesting anecdata, etc. It seems that it has devolved into a more yahoo answers meets TED / stevepavlina.com type community now, but maybe that's just my feed. I admit that I've hardly used it in the past few years so it could just be my shitty and uncurated list of topics and people i follow
- wp381640 8y agoIMO Quora is one of the larger missed opportunities in recent tech history. The early community they built around the product was extraordinary, unique and rewarding as a user They had the foundations to build one of few reliable and high quality "expert" social graphs with a high bar of discussion but threw it all away when they chased expansion via search-engine marketing
- allenz 8y agoProblem is, chasing the common denominator probably increased Quora's ad revenue. I think that Quora's high quality community was doomed as soon as Quora accepted venture funding.