Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Problems with Q&A Sites

Just heard that Google acquired Aardvard which is just another Q&A service.

The problem with these Q&A services is not how easy to use the application is or how user-friendly it is; the real problem is the quality of questions asked. I tried answering for a few days, but there are just so many “junk” questions, aka, no brainers.

What is the ultimate laptop for Adobe Premier video editing?

What is the best smart phone to buy currently?

See enough of these questions, and you start to think there’s no use wasting time browsing the questions even if you have good intentions to answer and even if you might find some good questions that you can help answer.

Windows Live Q&A is also fully infested with these stupid questions.

By Justin Lin
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1 comments:

  1. This is really a problem with mega Q&A sites. Niche Q&A and local Q&A cater to the needs of their specific community and are not over-run with questions they would find annoying.

    Perhaps the best examples of Q&A are when experts are involved. For example MatchBook is a book recommendation Q&A on The Stranger: http://questionland.thestranger.com/users/657-paul-constant
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