I can see the potential here. I guess the barrier to signups would be how useful is the site for visitors. Is the site useful in functionality? (the way quora.

I can see the potential here. I guess the barrier to signups would be how useful is the site for visitors. Is the site useful in functionality? (the way quora.com is) Or more of a fun way to read light-hearted content? (the way 9gag is). To get the first 1,000 users, it might be useful to target a niche segment, rather than a catch-all segment. Also, this site seems similar to quora.com. People ask questions on quora, whereas you are soliciting reasons. Yes, I can see how there is a slight differentiation here. So it might be useful to actuall really make it more explicit, probably through sample posts, what kind of content are you trying to capture here that makes you different from asking a question on quora.com. Probably the content can be more compelling. Asking questions like "why I should exercise?" may not really interest the average visitor. I probably already expect more than half the answers there. More compelling content could be questions like "why are people allowed to carry guns in the states?". And then users can try to frame these questions in the reasons2-esque style: "Reasons for allowing guns in the states". Such content sounds a lot more compelling, and might motivate users to sign up and participate in such a 'forum' of sorts. There certainly is potential. But the differentiation from websites like quora has to be deliberate here. That's my two cents, hope it helped.