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Smells desperate to me. Quora launched with all kinds of "Former Facebooker!" hype that it hasn't really lived up to. I've had some good reads on the site, bu
by incision 14y ago
Smells desperate to me.
Quora launched with all kinds of "Former Facebooker!" hype that it hasn't really lived up to.
I've had some good reads on the site, but only from the cream of the crop threads that make it into the digest emails.
Searching out a general question on Quora seems more likely to lead directly to hordes of marketers linking back to their own sites.
- mnicole 14y agoI just can't tolerate a site where people upvote you based on where you work and not based on the content of your answer. A recent thread on using "bullets" to separate text elements on a single line wherein a Facebook employee responded by saying "I stole it from Flickr" had more upvotes by far when it was put in the newsletter than a post below it highlighting (with images and historical references) that we've been using dots-as-spaces since we were writing on stone tablets really drove this home for me.
- incision 14y agoThat's exactly the kind of thing I feared upon hearing of Quora's focus on real names back when they launched. I expect the bubbling up of such things (stuff that is somehow "interesting", but not useful) is a problem for the majority of social sites. I tend to think the like button / upvote concept is just busted and largely to blame, but I certainly don't know how to solve or supplant it.
- georgemcbay 14y ago"Quora launched with all kinds of "Former Facebooker!" hype that it hasn't really lived up to." With all of these privacy issues popping up with them the past couple of weeks I'd venture to say their "Former Facebooker!" hype is being lived up to quite well.