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I don't like Quora, and yet I find myself on Quore surprisingly often because a lot of the questions and answers highlighted in the emails that I still get in m

by mercer 12y ago

I don't like Quora, and yet I find myself on Quore surprisingly often because a lot of the questions and answers highlighted in the emails that I still get in my inbox are so interesting. Does anyone know of a less unpleasant site with Quora-like content?

bambax 12y ago
Okay, but if you didn't get those emails, would you ask those questions? I end up at Stack Overflow after seeking answers to questions I'm actually asking. Quora is just entertainment, and a very evil version of it. It's funny (in a sad way) that YC which wants to "kill Hollywood", presumably because of DRM and such, would end up backing up properties like Scribd and Quora.
- mercer 12y ago
  Hmm, that's an interesting comment. In the 'grand scheme' of things I suppose Quora is mostly useless, and for the past week's I've been paying more attention to my information consumption. That said, I have found some very valuable stuff on Quora. One example was the link to the summary of Irvine's book on stoicism: https://booknotes.quora.com/Notes-on-A-Guide-to-the-Good-Life-by-Irvine?share=1 https://booknotes.quora.com/Notes-on-A-Guide-to-the-Good-Lif... It prompted me to read the actual book. I've also found a lot of the 'wisdom to younger self' type Q&A's to be very valuable, to the point where I store offline versions in my information thingamajig (DevonThink).
click170 12y ago
If you haven't already, I would highly advise browsing some of the Stack Exchange sites. http://stackexchange.com/sites http://stackexchange.com/sites Maybe they don't overlap 100% but, you don't have to pay or login to view questions and answers, and if you post a question in the wrong SE site it can simply be transferred to the correct SE site where the people familiar with that topic can answer appropriately. Once upon a time I found myself contributing to StackOverflow and Programmers sites just to spite Experts Exchange, which to my dismay kept coming up in my search results instead of questions on a Stack Exchange site. It's consistently been a source of answers to questions that I thought were going to be hard to search for.

by mercer 12y ago

bambax 12y ago

Okay, but if you didn't get those emails, would you ask those questions? I end up at Stack Overflow after seeking answers to questions I'm actually asking. Quora is just entertainment, and a very evil version of it. It's funny (in a sad way) that YC which wants to "kill Hollywood", presumably because of DRM and such, would end up backing up properties like Scribd and Quora.

mercer 12y ago
Hmm, that's an interesting comment. In the 'grand scheme' of things I suppose Quora is mostly useless, and for the past week's I've been paying more attention to my information consumption. That said, I have found some very valuable stuff on Quora. One example was the link to the summary of Irvine's book on stoicism: https://booknotes.quora.com/Notes-on-A-Guide-to-the-Good-Life-by-Irvine?share=1 https://booknotes.quora.com/Notes-on-A-Guide-to-the-Good-Lif... It prompted me to read the actual book. I've also found a lot of the 'wisdom to younger self' type Q&A's to be very valuable, to the point where I store offline versions in my information thingamajig (DevonThink).

click170 12y ago

If you haven't already, I would highly advise browsing some of the Stack Exchange sites. http://stackexchange.com/sites http://stackexchange.com/sites Maybe they don't overlap 100% but, you don't have to pay or login to view questions and answers, and if you post a question in the wrong SE site it can simply be transferred to the correct SE site where the people familiar with that topic can answer appropriately. Once upon a time I found myself contributing to StackOverflow and Programmers sites just to spite Experts Exchange, which to my dismay kept coming up in my search results instead of questions on a Stack Exchange site. It's consistently been a source of answers to questions that I thought were going to be hard to search for.