Sorry, Scoble, Quora is not your playground

http://quorareview.com/2011/01/30/sorry-scoble-quora-is-not-your-playground/

by moses1400 • 15 years ago

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beoba• 15 years ago

Just feeding off of drama. Over what, exactly? This is equivalent to posting about a Wikipedia edit war.

raganwald• 15 years ago

Why are university politics so vicious? Because the stakes are so low.

JoachimSchipper2• 15 years ago

Don't you think that the whole "tenure track", "up or out" thing has a lot to do with it as well? The academic job search is quite brutal.

(Even further off-topic: my old university has decided that each group can have at most one professor, and that this job will be re-awarded every five years. It's too early to see the effects, but...)

jdp23• 15 years ago

Pass the popcorn!

It's a challenge for any site that focuses on the Scobles of the world as their early users. What happens when it they want to change the vibe to make it more broadly appealing?

It's certainly not fatal. Twitter navigated through it a couple of years ago, when a lot of the old-timers (including Scoble) talked about how it had lost its appeal and FriendFeed was the wave of the future. It'll be interesting to see what Quora does.

EDIT: although I do think Robert's right: Quora isn't a very good platform for blogging.

jwatzman• 15 years ago

I agree that Quora is not a good platform for blogging. It's a feature, not a bug -- Quora is an excellent QA site, nothing more and nothing less.

ouroboros• 15 years ago

Ah, finally someone said it:

>> you, the ubiquitous tech evangelist, larger-than-life personality and Rackspace blogger,

nhangen• 15 years ago

Vitriol, self aggrandization - all over an issue that doesn't seem to matter much.

j_baker• 15 years ago

Might I suggest that Quora's better off without Scoble if he can't think of it as nothing more than a blogging platform?

mahmud• 15 years ago

"Quora Review" doesn't seem to be related to Quora in any shape or form.

Sorry, Scoble, Quora is not your playground

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