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Nobody does. Quora is just a new club where the owners have some celebrity friends. Give it time.

Presumably following the right topics and people will allow you to filter out the senseless and inane questions. They also are trying to do a better job of monitoring them than many other Q&A sites, incorporating also crowd monitoring.

Quora is a bit like Twitter in the sense that many signed up because Bruce Willis' son was on it. On Quora there's that elite selection of superstars who draw the proles in.

It's entirely unsustainable though. It is a community destined to fail, as cool as it is right now.

Seriously, you think Quora is cool? No. It's already uncool and getting more and more uncool as we speak. You can see how the quality has degraded over the last month or so, before they made it invite only again. You already see mega-important SV people like Scoble posting inane images on questions in order to game upvoting, &c.

Karma to burn, and I'm hardly the only one here making the 'entropy' argument: Quora will wind up like Yahoo! Answers given enough new users + time, and by then the cool SV people will have found another plaything.