# Some Improvements to Encourage Users to ask questions ? Make People Engage

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**Created:** [2017年十月29日 10:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-improvements-to-encourage-users-to-ask-questions-make-people-engage/73003 "2017-10-29T10:22:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [2017年十月29日 11:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-improvements-to-encourage-users-to-ask-questions-make-people-engage/73003/3 "2017-10-29T11:18:12Z")

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Quora does not do it very well – they are [not exactly taking over the world with growth](http://fortune.com/2014/03/20/why-quora-is-purposely-flouting-all-the-latest-web-trends/). Q&A is not a panacea; it does not fit all topics, in fact it only really fits a minority of them.

I feel Quora [doesn’t even understand](https://techcrunch.com/2012/12/08/the-underachiever/) the _actual_ strengths of the Q&A format, as we did at Stack Overflow.

> Quora is a fantastic resource. But it will never have growth or usage rates comparable to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram et al, because it’s sheer human nature to prefer conversation to answers; and it will never be quite as absorbing as Wikipedia, because other people’s questions are never as interesting as our own. It’s a fascinating mélange of encyclopedia and social network, but alas, I fear that in terms of widespread success and adoption, it combines the worst, not the best, of those two worlds.

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