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What's interesting is Facebook used to have an "Ask a Question" feature and shut it down due to lack of use.

Sometimes you need to keep striking the match until it lights.. but I don't quite get what they're fixing that Facebook's approach got wrong (obviously not the network?)

Facebook Officially Begins Shutting Down “Questions” Product: http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/19/facebook-questions-shut-dow...

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jig also springs to mind and this answer on Quora about why it didn't take off is pretty good

http://www.quora.com/Startups/Why-didnt-vark-com-or-jig-com-...

I think there is also an interesting embarassment factor - I felt that people did not like to be seen needing help on Jig. People that asked for help did get lots of it.

I also think the notification framework (posting to facebook would just get comments there, not on Jig; emailing people is annoying) is different for mobile rather than desktop use as well.

I still like the idea a lot so I hope Jelly unlocks the idea.

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