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Sorry, Scoble, Quora is not your playground

42 points by moses1400 16y ago

beoba 16y ago
Just feeding off of drama. Over what, exactly? This is equivalent to posting about a Wikipedia edit war.
- raganwald 16y ago
  Why are university politics so vicious? Because the stakes are so low.
  - JoachimSchipper 16y ago
    Don't you think that the whole "tenure track", "up or out" thing has a lot to do with it as well? The academic job search is quite brutal. (Even further off-topic: my old university has decided that each group can have at most one professor, and that this job will be re-awarded every five years. It's too early to see the effects, but...)
    - Stormbringer 16y ago
      I think the original version of the quote was referring to student politics.
      - JoachimSchipper 16y ago
        I don't think so - it's attributed to various academics, most famously Henry Kissinger; why would they talk about student politics? (That said, I didn't manage to find an authoritative source for the quote.)
      - alatkins 16y ago
        Nope it was about academic politics: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayres_Law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayres_Law
    - enjo 16y ago
      I think that you might be on to something. There are some disciplines that are much less competitive for jobs/tenure (like accounting). From the outside at least, it sure seems like there is a lot less internal politicking going on.
jdp23 16y ago
Pass the popcorn! It's a challenge for any site that focuses on the Scobles of the world as their early users. What happens when it they want to change the vibe to make it more broadly appealing? It's certainly not fatal. Twitter navigated through it a couple of years ago, when a lot of the old-timers (including Scoble) talked about how it had lost its appeal and FriendFeed was the wave of the future. It'll be interesting to see what Quora does. EDIT: although I do think Robert's right: Quora isn't a very good platform for blogging.
- jwatzman 16y ago
  I agree that Quora is not a good platform for blogging. It's a feature, not a bug -- Quora is an excellent QA site, nothing more and nothing less.
ouroboros 16y ago
Ah, finally someone said it: >> you, the ubiquitous tech evangelist, larger-than-life personality and Rackspace blogger,
nhangen 16y ago
Vitriol, self aggrandization - all over an issue that doesn't seem to matter much.
j_baker 16y ago
Might I suggest that Quora's better off without Scoble if he can't think of it as nothing more than a blogging platform?
mahmud 16y ago
"Quora Review" doesn't seem to be related to Quora in any shape or form.

42 points by moses1400 16y ago

beoba 16y ago

Just feeding off of drama. Over what, exactly? This is equivalent to posting about a Wikipedia edit war.

raganwald 16y ago
Why are university politics so vicious? Because the stakes are so low.
- JoachimSchipper 16y ago
  Don't you think that the whole "tenure track", "up or out" thing has a lot to do with it as well? The academic job search is quite brutal. (Even further off-topic: my old university has decided that each group can have at most one professor, and that this job will be re-awarded every five years. It's too early to see the effects, but...)
  - Stormbringer 16y ago
    I think the original version of the quote was referring to student politics.
    - JoachimSchipper 16y ago
      I don't think so - it's attributed to various academics, most famously Henry Kissinger; why would they talk about student politics? (That said, I didn't manage to find an authoritative source for the quote.)
    - alatkins 16y ago
      Nope it was about academic politics: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayres_Law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayres_Law
  - enjo 16y ago
    I think that you might be on to something. There are some disciplines that are much less competitive for jobs/tenure (like accounting). From the outside at least, it sure seems like there is a lot less internal politicking going on.

jdp23 16y ago

Pass the popcorn! It's a challenge for any site that focuses on the Scobles of the world as their early users. What happens when it they want to change the vibe to make it more broadly appealing? It's certainly not fatal. Twitter navigated through it a couple of years ago, when a lot of the old-timers (including Scoble) talked about how it had lost its appeal and FriendFeed was the wave of the future. It'll be interesting to see what Quora does. EDIT: although I do think Robert's right: Quora isn't a very good platform for blogging.

jwatzman 16y ago
I agree that Quora is not a good platform for blogging. It's a feature, not a bug -- Quora is an excellent QA site, nothing more and nothing less.

ouroboros 16y ago

Ah, finally someone said it: >> you, the ubiquitous tech evangelist, larger-than-life personality and Rackspace blogger,

nhangen 16y ago

Vitriol, self aggrandization - all over an issue that doesn't seem to matter much.

j_baker 16y ago

Might I suggest that Quora's better off without Scoble if he can't think of it as nothing more than a blogging platform?

mahmud 16y ago

"Quora Review" doesn't seem to be related to Quora in any shape or form.