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Is Quora Ready for Pop Music?

21 points by inmygarage 16y ago

AlekseyKorzun 16y ago
I found it remarkable that both Quora and the article in question have something in common. Both scream 'useless garbage'.
matzner 16y ago
YES
bitwize 16y ago
If it concerns Nicki Minaj, the question should be, "Dude, what were you thinking, civilization?"
senthil_rajasek 16y ago
Perhaps this is not the right question for Quora. Explaining a rapper's success is akin to asking why Simon Cowell is as good as he is at what he does? Personally to me Quora is great for answering questions that do not require very deep analysis but require specific knowledge in an area.
- inmygarage 16y ago
  Disagree. There's actually a pretty significant collection of answers around the "Why is X popular?" tag, though most of the questions are about startups and traction, etc. "Why is Instagram popular?" is the perfect question for Quora.
  - senthil_rajasek 16y ago
    Let me clarify, if a question has already been asked such as "Why is x popular?" a search engine is likely to give you a good answer. If you are the first person to ask a question and you need an opinion then something like Quora can be a great place.
bhousel 16y ago
Quora is 6 months away from turning into Yahoo! Answers.
- benologist 16y ago
  If they're lucky.
- minouye 16y ago
  I'll believe you when I see the "caps lock question" on Quora. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090903085749AAGT84W http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090903085749AA...
GBond 16y ago
"Is Quora Ready for Pop Music?" would actually be a good question to be posted Quora itself and "Why is Nicki Minaj so popular?" would make a fine personal blog post... downside of that is the later would probably not make HN front page.
titoperez 16y ago
I've had a hard time posting questions to quora with band names because I keep getting bounced by the automated capitalization and grammar rules.
wh-uws 16y ago
I personally feel like she asked a question that couldn't be suitably answered by most of quora's current community. This has nothing to with it as a whole or on the track its going what about? http://www.quora.com/Why-is-Lady-Gaga-so-popular http://www.quora.com/Why-is-Lady-Gaga-so-popular http://www.quora.com/Justin-Bieber/Why-is-Justin-Bieber-so-popular-1 http://www.quora.com/Justin-Bieber/Why-is-Justin-Bieber-so-p... And also why is this on the front page of Hacker News?

21 points by inmygarage 16y ago

I found it remarkable that both Quora and the article in question have something in common. Both scream 'useless garbage'.

matzner 16y ago

YES

bitwize 16y ago

If it concerns Nicki Minaj, the question should be, "Dude, what were you thinking, civilization?"

senthil_rajasek 16y ago

Perhaps this is not the right question for Quora. Explaining a rapper's success is akin to asking why Simon Cowell is as good as he is at what he does? Personally to me Quora is great for answering questions that do not require very deep analysis but require specific knowledge in an area.

inmygarage 16y ago
Disagree. There's actually a pretty significant collection of answers around the "Why is X popular?" tag, though most of the questions are about startups and traction, etc. "Why is Instagram popular?" is the perfect question for Quora.
- senthil_rajasek 16y ago
  Let me clarify, if a question has already been asked such as "Why is x popular?" a search engine is likely to give you a good answer. If you are the first person to ask a question and you need an opinion then something like Quora can be a great place.

bhousel 16y ago

Quora is 6 months away from turning into Yahoo! Answers.

benologist 16y ago
If they're lucky.
minouye 16y ago
I'll believe you when I see the "caps lock question" on Quora. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090903085749AAGT84W http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090903085749AA...

GBond 16y ago

"Is Quora Ready for Pop Music?" would actually be a good question to be posted Quora itself and "Why is Nicki Minaj so popular?" would make a fine personal blog post... downside of that is the later would probably not make HN front page.

titoperez 16y ago

I've had a hard time posting questions to quora with band names because I keep getting bounced by the automated capitalization and grammar rules.

wh-uws 16y ago

I personally feel like she asked a question that couldn't be suitably answered by most of quora's current community. This has nothing to with it as a whole or on the track its going what about? http://www.quora.com/Why-is-Lady-Gaga-so-popular http://www.quora.com/Why-is-Lady-Gaga-so-popular http://www.quora.com/Justin-Bieber/Why-is-Justin-Bieber-so-popular-1 http://www.quora.com/Justin-Bieber/Why-is-Justin-Bieber-so-p... And also why is this on the front page of Hacker News?