The Quora-spam lifecycle, in pictures.
More and more, I think Quora should find (if they haven’t already) a psychologist to consult with on interaction design. I tend to believe in a strong relationship between design and discourse, so when I think about what it will take for Quora to build and maintain an open community of ideas at scale, the solutions I see have more to do with encouraging content quality than with controlling content quality. I’m pretty sure the Quora team already spends an inordinate amount of time, at least relative to other web startups, thinking and talking about the nature of community and social behavior. Nonetheless, designers and developers can postulate all day about what tweaks will incentivize desired behaviors, but at some point, it may help to have on call someone who’s made human behavior the focus of their life’s work.
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