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You don't need it, cause you've got StackOverflow and GitHub to build your rep, leaving aside the 'just launch' of putting your own technical talent out there.
by HistoryInAction 14y ago
You don't need it, cause you've got StackOverflow and GitHub to build your rep, leaving aside the 'just launch' of putting your own technical talent out there.
If you're not in a tech field, say as a screenwriter in Hollywood—excellent Quora use case, btw—it's a great way to build your brand and increase your chances of discovery/personal breakout. Quora helped me launch my career, working with Startup Visa. It's gotten me political meetings and was warmly received as I'm applying for a fellowship.
Quora's a publishing platform with an increasing number of ways to get into publications. Right now, the two big ones are Forbes, Huffington Post, but I'm sure they're expanding in that direction, based on the utter awesomeness of their weekly and daily digests in contrast with the eh launches of most of their technical additions, from credits on to views.
As a political person, I love it, definitely the best place for thoughtful, civil political discussion on the web, even if that has its failure modes.
- XiaoPing 14y agoYou're joking, right?
- HistoryInAction 14y agoI've been a user since 1/10, I'm an admin, and I 'live' in a non-technical topic space on Quora. You can see why my user experience has been amazing, yeah? I agree with most of Christie's points, though I've seen quite a few new users make similar points and get welcomed in much more easily, Christie provoked this response: http://www.quora.com/Lucretia-M-Pruitt/Posts/Welcome-to-Quora-Do-Yourself-a-Favor-Slow-Down http://www.quora.com/Lucretia-M-Pruitt/Posts/Welcome-to-Quor... I think she's very insightful, and as a community we have a lot to learn from her experience, at least testing the edge cases and failure modes she's tripped through.
- christie 14y agoby the way, the post you link to was on Quora before I signed-up. I mention it in a post last year called, Confessions of a Quora Newbie. Many thanks!
- christie 14y ago...so actually, I did not 'provoke' that post, but was rather 'provoked' by it (just a little). It was the first thing showing in my stream upon signing up.
- christie 14y agoThanks for your kind words :)