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Modern Quora reminds me a lot Yahoo! Answers when I was a kid - it’s mostly a trolling playground. You can technically get some useful info out of it, but odds are that you won’t be able to sort it out.

I’m from the firm belief that anyone using a chatbot to directly reply questions either 1) never interacted with chatbots enough to conclude the obvious (that their answers are often unreliable crap), or 2) doesn’t care about reliability at all.

BNBR is never enough to create a nice and respectful community. You need to go a step deeper and analyse why and when users are hostile towards each other.

“The A.I. thing, the terms of service issue, has been a massive drain of top talent on Quora, just based on how many people have said, Downloaded my stuff and I’m out of there,”

One thing that corporate social media struggles to understand is that not all the users have the same impact in a platform. It’s extremely easy to take a mildly unpopular decision that only pisses off 0.5% of your userbase, and the platform becomes ruined because that 0.5% were damn important.

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db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

One thing that corporate social media struggles to understand is that not all the users have the same impact in a platform. It’s extremely easy to take a mildly unpopular decision that only pisses off 0.5% of your userbase, and the platform becomes ruined because that 0.5% were damn important.

Pretty much what happened with reddit which lost all its power users.

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- lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yes, with a difference: Reddit knows it but doesn’t care due to the imminent IPO.
  
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  - TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    When is it? Feels like I’ve been hearing about reddit IPO for 3 years now.
    
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    isildun@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I’m almost starting to wonder if that’s the plan. Just keep saying “IPO IPO IPO” to get funding from over-eager VCs who want a piece of the IPO before it becomes widely available.
    
    But then you just never IPO. Keep making minor to moderate mistakes along the way so you can be all “weeeeell we would have IPO’d but insert thing here so we want to wait another 6 months to let it die down”. Repeat until you’re ready to quit, then actually IPO and ride the initial IPO high all the way down via golden parachute.
    
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    lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    IIRC around March or so.
    
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