| [edit: Troll answers have been deleted, but you can still read the trolling comment thread: http://www.quora.com/Is-Qato-a-serious-Quora-clone-attempt/a... and http://www.quora.com/Is-Qato-a-serious-Quora-clone-attempt/a... ] On the Quora thread, http://www.quora.com/Is-Qato-a-Quora-clone-attempt-or-a-simi... there are some answers by trolls pretending to represent Qato. "Sameul Codsaw" writes: 'Also, we are using Ruby on Rails, so we expect to have less trouble scaling and finding devs than Quora has.' Rick Ross, president of DZone (developers of OSQA and Qato), replies in the comments: 'This imposter has no connection with Qato and does a disservice to both Quora and DZone by posting this nonsense.' "Kevin McDougal" answers and comments, also trying to make DZone look bad. ("Rick, our plan to sabotage the Quora community is working. Did Hernani create the 100 fake Quora accounts yet?" ... "Hold on. Was that message private or public?") It's pretty juvenile and makes me question the quality of the Quora moderation system. Why are there all these sock puppet accounts (http://www.quora.com/Kevin-McDougal and http://www.quora.com/Samuel-Codsaw) popping up and pretending to represent Qato? They have only one answer on the entire site, and its on this thread. Are Quora engineers behind these trolls, or who? Regardless of who is behind it, the trolling reflects poorly on Quora, not Qato. The comments by Ben Newman (Quora dev) honestly are quite juvenile, and do a disservice to Quora, regardless of any ethical considerations on the part of Quora or Qato. I would prefer to see him take the moral high road. |