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Re:Quora pays thousands for posting questions by sh87 on Sunday December 23, 2018 @11:55AM (#18747069)
> ... everything that looks like an attempt to advertise (as opposed to honest suggestions) gets downvoted and/or banned directly.

That is so easy to game for a startup - Post something related, get friends/ pay for upvotes, repeat. What applies to quora's fall also applies to HN. How could HN (or any other niche community for that matter) survive that downward spiral?

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Re:Quora pays thousands for posting questions by TeMPOraL on Sunday December 23, 2018 @12:34PM (#18747248)
HN tries to actively counter that - including by employing algorithmic voting ring detectors, and trigger-happy community willing to downvote and flag anything that smells of astroturfing :).

But I guess a big part of the reason is that HN generally doesn't want to have this kind of content here, whereas people running Quora embraced and encouraged thinly-veiled ads.

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