Personally, its because of the arrogance they have with they way they did their UX implementation -- to the point that any criticism of it is brushed off as tho

Personally, its because of the arrogance they have with they way they did their UX implementation -- to the point that any criticism of it is brushed off as though the comments are made by morons who don't understand the vision. Further, the tidbits of information on the site are captured and displayed in a way that makes it very unruly to manage if you want to know a lot about any given topic. You have a TOPIC - which is effectively a big ass bucket to throw everything. They try to oversimplify data classification making it seem as though tagging etc is too complex. I am not saying that it is an easy problem - I am saying that there is not the deep level of experience being brought to the table to solve these issues. I do feel that there is a hell of a lot of Facebook Alumn echo-chamber cock-sucking that occurs in the valley. Quora falls square into this area. Sure, Facebook is an amazing success - but to say, categorically, that all of the alumn who came from facebook out of college - and have that as their only experience ever are going to have messianic vision to every other aspect of online experience is just plain stupid. Everyone has had the co-worker who's only frame of reference to anything is "their last company" -- and even if your last company is big, and successful - its still just one data-point.