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What exactly is the value of Quora? It's Yahoo Answers with better CSS and the idiots filtered out. I assume it's ad-supported - they have started supposedly sh
by thrower123 7y ago
What exactly is the value of Quora? It's Yahoo Answers with better CSS and the idiots filtered out. I assume it's ad-supported - they have started supposedly sharing revenue with users.
It could disappear tomorrow and leave barely a memory.
- mjcohen 7y agoDon't know about the idiots. My quora feed keeps coming up with pairs of "What is the square root of nnnn?" for seemingly random integer nnnn. Don't know how to stop it. When I feel like it, I answer "2".
- bluedino 7y agoWhoever said "there is no such thing as a dumb question" never visited Quora. Worse yet, the site is full of dumb answers as well.
- jodrellblank 7y agoQuora pays people who ask questions, based on how many views their question gets. Now it's full of people spamming as many questions as they can, trying to game it.
- thrower123 7y agoAh. When they started, they were seeding it with high quality questions and famous answerers. I guess the floodgates have now opened.
- tanr54ok 7y agoI prefer the idiots of yahoo answers. At least some of them have a sense of humor.
- mmahemoff 7y agoMaybe there's an idiot filter but the CSS spam filter isn't working at all. Look up anything related to SaaS/PaaS.