[nacs]

And the firesale tweet:

    To be fair, it was a total firesale. In the 
    years since we all got politely pushed out, the
    business had completely tanked.

https://twitter.com/monstro/status/585797874300035072

Also:

    Usually they at least throw the founders some
    hush money, but we didn't even get that! So 
    I promise you'll hear more about it soon.

https://twitter.com/monstro/status/585798828822892545

[x0x0]

Maybe my memory is incorrect, but they were kind of sketchy; their page implied companies not paying them weren't interested in customer interaction and they wanted $1200/year to get rid of competitors' ads before 37 signals called them out: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1650-get-satisfaction-or-else

[mattmanser]

I seem to remember at the time there was about 1/2 year - year where Google loved them and you'd get a Get Satisfaction result for googling "[company name] support". GS were HN darlings for a little bit, then started getting annoying because you'd land on this pointless page, then 37signals (rightfully) publicly called them out, then google seemed to delist them in a panda or something and then everyone forgot about them.

[moe]

then google seemed to delist them in a panda

And rightfully so. They were a pest, just like the spam-site by that Calamaris guy from Netscape around the same time.

Lesson learned: If you depend on search traffic then don't be obnoxious. Otherwise nobody will speak up for you when Google snaps your neck.

Hey Google, why is Quora (expert-sexchange 2.0) still polluting my search results anyway?

[x0x0]

i'm glad I'm not the only person who read it as expert sexchange every time

Atwood and Spolsky get a lifetime of karma for stack overflow

[codinghorror]

Could be worse, could be a Yahoo Answers result.

[calbear81]

Yahoo! Answers results are often quite entertaining. I treat it as a comedy site.

[bduerst]

At least you don't have to log in with a social network to see the answers.

[cheepin]

Here you go. Not super efficient, but a little bookmarklet to get rid of the most annoying things about Quora

javascript:(function(){function a(c){var e=document.getElementsByTagName('*'),i;for(i in e){if((' '+e[i].className+' ').indexOf(' '+c+' ')>-1){e[i].style.display="none";}}}a("modal_signup_background");a("modal_signup_dialog");a("modal_signup_facepile");})();

[motoboi]

I suppose you know that answers are on the bottom of the page. Right?

[lmm]

Yahoo Answers is nice and not at all spammy. Some of the answers are bad (and some of them are very good), but the site itself is clear and simple, and doesn't have the obnoxious login nonsense of Quora.

[ahlatimer]

I'm a former Get Sat employee (I left about two months ago). While the company may have done that early on, we definitely did NOT continue that at any point when I was there. There were a few communities like that we still kept up because there was some activity, but we certainly weren't adding new ones. In fact, we were actively pruning communities that had no activity and were on the old, free accounts when I left.

In the 2.5 years I was there, the only communities we launched were ones we were paid to launch.

[mattmanser]

Yeah, but the linked blog post is from 6 years ago. So like 3 years before you joined.

[bananaboy]

Whenever I ended up on a getsatisfaction page after searching for something I always felt like I had landed on some kind of dodgy crappy aggregator rather than anything official.