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I too was an enthusiastic Quora user early on, but hardly visit the site any more. It suffers from the same problem most sites that follow the social model (o
by pitchups 15y ago
I too was an enthusiastic Quora user early on, but hardly visit the site any more. It suffers from the same problem most sites that follow the social model (of followers/following) - "celebrity" authors get substantially more upvotes for even mediocre or poor answers - undermining the mission of the site. It perpetuates the fallacy that the most "popular" answer is somehow the right answer - which it seldom is.
- gojomo 15y agoI, too, visit less now that the novelty is gone, and that I've seen some of the celebrity/inner-circle machinations. But, when I ask a question, I get good answers. When I occasionally find myself there from other links, it's good content. So maybe it doesn't have to be an everyday social experience... just a constantly-improving, generally well-tended collection of reliable information.
- rexf 15y agoI browsed Quora briefly before, but I never got addicted to it. A Q&A site like stack overflow is nice, because I end up there by searching Google for programming questions. I'd probably only end up on Quora if it was the result of a Google search.
- georgemcbay 15y agoI never made it as far as browsing on Quora. After hearing about it a few times here, I went to the site and saw that you have to sign up before it lets you see anything and so I just closed the tab. Perhaps there's some value there that lifts it above stack-exchange sites, but I can't be bothered to sign up for yet another website prior to even knowing if I care about it.