{"id":5424,"date":"2011-01-18T14:02:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T12:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5424"},"modified":"2012-12-12T17:23:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T16:23:44","slug":"quora-is-like-a-blog-in-which-if-you-choose-the-subject-you-cant-write-the-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5424","title":{"rendered":"Quora is like a blog in which if you choose the subject you can&#8217;t write the article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Quoring<\/em> is very similar to blogging. Indeed an open source clone of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quora.com\">Quora<\/a> will probably fork out of WordPress soon and already it is not hard to hack a Quora out of WP.<\/p>\n<p>But Quora is better than blogging in one aspect. It addresses the key flaw of blogging, and that is <em>fairness<\/em>. In blogging, a lucky few who write get a significant number of readers. Blogging is frustrating for most others. The internet is littered with abandoned blogs that few read. Bloggers then lose interest. The way Quora addresses this is that it invites &#8220;blogger types&#8221; but forces them to behave differently, to take turns at blogging. Quora is like a blog in which, if you choose the subject, you can\u2019t write the article, and if you write the article you cannot choose the subject. Quora has a teacher who does not allow one student to answer questions but actively seeks classroom participation.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5424\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quoring is very similar to blogging. Indeed an open source clone of Quora will probably fork out of WordPress soon and already it is not hard to hack a Quora out of WP. But Quora is better than blogging in one aspect. It addresses the key flaw of blogging, and that is fairness. In blogging, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,12],"tags":[399,660],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6505,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions\/6505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}