[intellegacy]

Their mean IQs surely are. Know what else sometimes comes with smart people?

Snark, arrogance, responses that come flying at you. Mainstream people don't want to post on Quora. They're intimidated. One of the insecurities of dumb people is to have their dumb-ness pointed out. In their philosophy to ensure quality answers, they've driven away a lot of potential users.

There are some really intelligent, insightful answers on Quora. There's also a lot of attitude.

The sad thing is, Quora is a wonderful niche site. But since they've taken VC money and there are so many expectations in the startup world, they've put themselves in a tough situation in regards to growth. Though they should probably stick to the 'intelligent professional' niche, they probably need to pickup more mainstream users to justify valuations; but it's hard to go mainstream now with the userbase they've built up.

[theorique]

Yeah, I see this a lot in the atheism v. religion debates on Quora (big surprise I'm sure).