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Yeah, this is the main problem I have with Quora. You go to a thread to look for answers to a question, then find the platform has merged in a bunch of answers

by CM30 3y ago

Yeah, this is the main problem I have with Quora. You go to a thread to look for answers to a question, then find the platform has merged in a bunch of answers to related questions alongside the ones I'm actually there to read. For example, I found this random question just now: https://www.quora.com/How-does-blockchain-technology-work-11 https://www.quora.com/How-does-blockchain-technology-work-11 About half the answers there are actually to that question. The rest are to questions that are about the same thing but with different wording: * 'How does block chain technology work?' * 'How blockchain technology works?' * etc or to related but not quite identical ones: * 'What is blockchain technology and how does it work?' * 'What is blockchain technology, could you explain it in an easy way?' * 'What is a blockchain?' So you'll see a lot of answers... which may or may not actually be for the question you were interested in. Or which may explain it in a weird way, since the actual question they answered was worded very differently. At least with StackOverflow you know that the answers are all related to the same question.

Arainach 3y ago
>At least with StackOverflow you know that the answers are all related to the same question. I don't know, most StackOverflow answers I run into are "closed as duplicate of <not my question>" or "closed as duplicate of <how would I have solved my problem 8 years ago with only the tools available then>"
- ahoka 3y ago
  Or gods forbid, someone had a slightly open ended question.
  - _a_a_a_ 3y ago
    Slightly open-ended doesn't seem to be a problem for me on SO. Where I've really had a problem is the admins not reading the question properly then closing it as already answered elsewhere. I find that screeching like a banshee gets it apologetically reopened. Bit frustrating but a flawed SO is better than no SO at all.
frabjoused 3y ago
I really fail to understand how a company can consciously guide itself to degrade so badly. Like these were actual decisions of meetings and the results of a ton of work of teams to implement. And it destroyed the site. Product of too much VC, probably.
- AlbertCory 3y ago
  Product of middle managers, the cause of nearly all corporate problems.
  - lupire 3y ago
    Middle managers pursue the CEO's vision. They aren't steering the ship.
    - AlbertCory 3y ago
      That's your theory, anyway.
      - motoxpro 3y ago
        Either the CEO sees what’s going on and is fine with it mean it is their vision, they are putting their feet up and don’t care, or they are not fine with it and have no control over the company. Seems bad any way you look at it.
        AlbertCory 3y ago
        > they are not fine with it and have no control over the company something something "all unhappy families are unhappy in their own way" In some places, the "vision" is sufficiently vague that all sorts of dumb decisions can be justified by it. Or the CEO is so stupid that he only listens to his direct reports, who all tell him everything is under control. And when they tell him not to "micromanage" he listens and backs off. You can't make any universal statements about this.

by CM30 3y ago

Arainach 3y ago

>At least with StackOverflow you know that the answers are all related to the same question. I don't know, most StackOverflow answers I run into are "closed as duplicate of <not my question>" or "closed as duplicate of <how would I have solved my problem 8 years ago with only the tools available then>"

ahoka 3y ago
Or gods forbid, someone had a slightly open ended question.
- _a_a_a_ 3y ago
  Slightly open-ended doesn't seem to be a problem for me on SO. Where I've really had a problem is the admins not reading the question properly then closing it as already answered elsewhere. I find that screeching like a banshee gets it apologetically reopened. Bit frustrating but a flawed SO is better than no SO at all.

frabjoused 3y ago

I really fail to understand how a company can consciously guide itself to degrade so badly. Like these were actual decisions of meetings and the results of a ton of work of teams to implement. And it destroyed the site. Product of too much VC, probably.

AlbertCory 3y ago
Product of middle managers, the cause of nearly all corporate problems.
- lupire 3y ago
  Middle managers pursue the CEO's vision. They aren't steering the ship.
  - AlbertCory 3y ago
    That's your theory, anyway.
    - motoxpro 3y ago
      Either the CEO sees what’s going on and is fine with it mean it is their vision, they are putting their feet up and don’t care, or they are not fine with it and have no control over the company. Seems bad any way you look at it.
      - AlbertCory 3y ago
        > they are not fine with it and have no control over the company something something "all unhappy families are unhappy in their own way" In some places, the "vision" is sufficiently vague that all sorts of dumb decisions can be justified by it. Or the CEO is so stupid that he only listens to his direct reports, who all tell him everything is under control. And when they tell him not to "micromanage" he listens and backs off. You can't make any universal statements about this.