Never heard of Branch before and I do find the premise interesting. But the conversations seem too disjointed (a bit like Slashdot threads) with topics going off in every direction. If there's a way to tone down the "subject ad-lib" style tangents, it would be an interesting way to spend an afternoon.
Branch is confusing to me too, but I haven't spent much time there.
Quora is a plague? How? Could you please elaborate?
Actually, I find few things on Quora very interesting and unique to it.
Like
- You get an answer quickly(answers are mostly relevant), they usually propagate to particular topics and people interested in those topics pick them up.
- Down-voting is not limited to a few cognoscenti, all they did was join a forum quite early.
- You can edit your answer/question and others' too, the latter needs to be approved of course.
- Identities are real(mostly IMHO).
- Again, answering is not a cognoscenti-only, especially for wide acceptance(a good answer is liked) or for the upper crest, unlike on other forums where the gods receive up-votes for an one line quip which doesn't add anything to discussion, nth at all, or didn't make any sense to one either. (this point is a bit of personal observation which is not very very broad)
> Quora is a plague? How? Could you please elaborate?
Quora feels like the next experts-exchange. It allows search engines to index its content but as a user you need to register before you can see it. So Quora pages pop up as the first search results, but are actually useless to the vast majority of people that click on them.
Never heard of Branch before and I do find the premise interesting. But the conversations seem too disjointed (a bit like Slashdot threads) with topics going off in every direction. If there's a way to tone down the "subject ad-lib" style tangents, it would be an interesting way to spend an afternoon.