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I vehemently disagree. You could say the same of HN, Reddit or any other site. The value is in the users and the content. Where else on the internet can you ask
by killahpriest 14y ago
I vehemently disagree. You could say the same of HN, Reddit or any other site. The value is in the users and the content. Where else on the internet can you ask any sort of question and expect high quality responses?
Yahoo Answers has terrible answers. Reddit is full of trolls. HN is technology only and requires a lot of effort to get attention, most submissions die at one or two points. StackExchange's model is great for technical and highly specific questions, but its approach doesn't work well for the sort of questions Quora does.
Where else on the internet can you ask and get great responses to these questions?
- How can I explain SQL injection to my grandmother? http://www.quora.com/SQL-Injection/How-can-I-explain-SQL-injection-to-my-grandmother http://www.quora.com/SQL-Injection/How-can-I-explain-SQL-inj...
- How can Delhi be made safe for women? http://www.quora.com/New-Delhi-India/How-can-Delhi-be-made-safe-for-women http://www.quora.com/New-Delhi-India/How-can-Delhi-be-made-s...
- What should I do to get over my fear of public failure? http://www.quora.com/What-should-I-do-to-get-over-my-fear-of-public-failure http://www.quora.com/What-should-I-do-to-get-over-my-fear-of...
- Is there a physical, theoretical limit to how accurately one can measure the speed of light? http://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-physical-theoretical-limit-to-how-accurately-one-can-measure-the-speed-of-light http://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-physical-theoretical-limit-t...
- fabian2k 14y agoThe first one was also asked on security.stackexchange.com (http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/25684/how-can-i-explain-sql-injection-without-technical-jargon http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/25684/how-can-i-...). The last one would probably be on-topic on Physics.SE.
- killahpriest 14y agoNice find. However, go ahead and actually compare the two answers. There is no way my grandma would ever be able to follow the explanation on StackExchange, especially compared to the answer on Quora.
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- timjahn 14y agoI can't read any of those questions/answers because I'm not logged in to Quora. Which, in my opinion, further proves my point. Find me a real world person who googles a question and is able to find a Quora answer as a result. To each their own I suppose.
- killahpriest 14y agoI can't read any of those questions/answers because I'm not logged in to Quora. Log in.
- untog 14y agoThat's an absolutely huge barrier to someone first arriving at Quora- how are you supposed to know the answers are worth it? And as others have said, if it's not on Google, how are you going to find the site in the first place? For a Q&A site that really needs to start turning a profit, this is not a trivial issue.
- killahpriest 14y agohow are you supposed to know the answers are worth it? The preview. And as others have said, if it's not on Google, how are you going to find the site in the first place? For a Q&A site that really needs to start turning a profit, this is not a trivial issue. Quora is on Google, and ranks really well on Google for long tail keywords despite the everything but the first answer not being included in Google's index (blurred out). As a matter of fact, I've even gotten a client who came from Google after finding one of my answers. I know HN loves Quora links, so: http://www.quora.com/How-is-Quoras-SEO-so-damn-good http://www.quora.com/How-is-Quoras-SEO-so-damn-good
- eclipxe 14y agoask.metafilter.com