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In the early days of StackOverflow (mostly during the beta) there was encouragement to ask intelligent questions which hadn't been asked yet. This was a way to
by zerkten 8y ago
In the early days of StackOverflow (mostly during the beta) there was encouragement to ask intelligent questions which hadn't been asked yet. This was a way to seed the site with better content.
I can see the same strategy being useful to Quora who rely on search engine traffic. Sadly, the low signal/noise ratio of Quora, and encouragement of opinions (not that many SO answers aren't!) makes the content even more subjective.
- lostlogin 8y agoSO has a horrible tendency to mark questions as already answered, when they are in fact subtly different questions. It’s infuriating when you are deep in the weeds.
- mayankkaizen 8y agoYou can find idiotic question on both SO and Quora but, in my experience, the stupidity demonstrated in Quora questions is just astounding. But that is not the issue. The issue is that complete garbage answers get upvoted to the top too frequently. You actually have to dig very deep to find something interesting.
- zerkten 8y agoBoth of the points you have made are very similar to the issues with ExpertsExchange which SO set out to replace. The reason idiotic questions and answers remain is that they are fodder for people arriving from search engines. If you cleaned them up and removed the duplication there would be a huge reduction in content. I often wonder if Quora actually knows what it wants to be when it grows up. They have some serious funding (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/quora https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/quora) for what little they seem to have delivered. I would love for them to prove me wrong as I think there is space for an alternative to SO and the StackExchange network.