How do the rest of you feel about Quora.com?

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15 11 13 years ago

Tom's reply here is awesome and it would be funny to find out if he ever received a reply to his message.

Personally I think Quora had a lot of potential (and still could radically improve) but I stopped bothering with it when I couldn't actually read it without logging in.

DenisM• 13 years ago

About sums it up for me. I don't like being herded, so I don't visit Quora anymore.

Fuzzwah• 13 years ago

I receive the Quora Weekly Digest emails and will tend to open them up and have a skim when I'm looking for something to read. I'd say that roughly 50% of the time they include a topic / response which grabs my attention enough to click through.

I don't engage with the site beyond this, so personally it fills a similar role as scoopinion and other "content recommendation" sites I occasionally hit up to find something to kill a few minutes reading.

bougiefever• 13 years ago

I received the same email, but I deleted it instead of responding. I guess Tom's response is more likely to get the point across to them that they suck. Nothing makes me click away from a page faster than seeing the word "Quora".

On second thought, they probably don't care what anyone thinks of them given the way they so obviously try to suck you in to exploit you.

iterationx• 13 years ago

I'm a polymath here's my answer...

Seriously? Somehow this only happens on Quora.

RogerL• 13 years ago

Why would I ever go there? If I go to their home page, all I get is a "sign up to read Quora". Umm, no, you don't get my email just so I can see what you are about. Okay, I've come across quora plenty of times in google searches, so I know what you are about, but I've never felt that I am terribly missing out by not being able to read the link.

qzxt2• 13 years ago

Am I the only one who thinks this is unnecessarilly rude and abhorent?

The lady was just doing her job for duck sake. For someone whose main point of argument is that they show humanity, you seem to have very little of your own.

selfexperiments• 13 years ago

Was he rude? Yes. No excuse for that. But what he dead on right? Absolutely.

qzxt2• 13 years ago

Are you saying there was no other way to pass on the exact same message with the exact same effect without being a total cunt about it?

davesmylie• 13 years ago

I'm never going to register (or login) just to see if any responses to questions are relevant to my current problem at hand.

I'll visit quora if it came up in a google search. If the answer to the question is not right there, that tab's being closed. (This is pretty much the reason that experts-exchange.com died as much as did)

atoponce• 13 years ago

Never heard of it.

Oh, wait. That's the site that tries to be like http://stackexchange.com, but is behind a login, and they steal your data, violating your privacy, tracking you through their mobile app, and is run by former Facebook engineers?

Not interested.

How do the rest of you feel about Quora.com?

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