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Quora was a very good site when the userbase was small. All the content was very high quality, and I learnt a lot of stuff reading it back then. Now that quora
by enitihas 7y ago
Quora was a very good site when the userbase was small. All the content was very high quality, and I learnt a lot of stuff reading it back then.
Now that quora has a very large number of users, it resembles the real world more closely, as in the average quality of content is very low. I am wondering whether there are websites which manage to retain high quality discussions even with a huge user base (HN certainly is one, but I think HN has way less users than quora, and HN is geared specifically towards certain people looking for intellectual excitement).
- frandroid 7y agoStackExchange manages to do this, and it's not just the developers of StackOverflow, it's also all the other communities. Set a proper model and see good information flow.
- mr_toad 7y agoMost of StackExchange is good. The Skeptics site is ironically full of troll posts.
- blaser-waffle 7y ago> HN certainly is one, but I think HN has way less users than quora, and HN is geared specifically towards certain people looking for intellectual excitement For sure. Smaller userbase, no obvious or easy-to-monitize ads, heavy (and specific) technical focuses. Doesn't represent the internet -- or even really the US/International tech scene -- but it's a fun place as long as you don't lose sight of that.