I think it depends on what Quora’s founders see as their ultimate vision for the site. If quality is essential, then there may be a need to better “monitor” the site for quality questions and contributors. But I assume that leads to an uncomfortable position of who dictates quality or not.

Maybe that’s a question that needs to be posed on Quora? =)

What i do find interesting is the wave of backlash that is gathering steam. When i first got introduce to quora back in the middle of last year i didn’t quite know what to make of it. But by november, i had the same feeling about quora that i had about twitter early on. It provided me with this incredible access to this incredible braintrust. With twitter it was the ability to follow marketers and learn about their projects and day to day. With quora it was an opportunity to gain an understanding of how they thought and approach problems (that’s valuable stuff)

I’ve tried Linkedin answers (that quickly turned into a nightmare of people puffing out their chest) and Facebook’s Answers as well. Quora to me is ridiculously superior in quality.

With increased numbers of folks i’ve seen a decrease in the quality of answers and increase in the amount of unanswered questions.

Quora isn’t meant to be mainstream, at least not if it is to regain its quality edge. Perhaps then it’s for the best that those interested in the next shiny thing do deem it overhyped and move on so those of us who truly value it can continue to take advantage of the incredible insight it offers into some of the brightest minds in digital