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Yahoo Answers Is Shutting Down
- dang 6y agoComments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26701045 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26701045.
- twobitshifter 6y agoThe answers idea has been tried by many and it’s the quality of the answers that matters most, but this is presumably out of the developers control. If you have yahoo answers, quora, metafilter, askReddit, and stackoverflow, the primary differences in my mind are the website cultures. Quora has apparently developed a very pro CCP slant lately, not something the developers intended (one hopes.) it also seems to be den of self promotion. Stackoverflow is genuinely useful for experts, but has many memes about the type of answers one can expect to a beginner question. Ask Reddit is not a place that you can expect to get an answer if it’s not interesting enough to gain upvotes or be made fun of. Yahoo answers tried to provide a simple Q&A format, but both the quality of questions and answers were unsatisfying (how is baby formed).
- jfengel 6y agoQuora has always done an abysmal job of filtering even the most obvious of spammers and trolls. Anybody making even the slightest attempt to seem reasonable will get a pass. Upvote rings and other manipulation techniques don't even begin to enter their consciousness. So they won't even try to distinguish people who just happen to like the Chinese Communist Party from an army of paid trolls. As long as they're polite about it, they can remain.