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    Real football doesn't have helmets. Commented Mar 31, 2010 at 1:41
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    Well, they use facebook to try to draw people to the site, a problem you and Joel did not have Commented Mar 31, 2010 at 2:02
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    should we be using teh facebooks to draw users to our sites? Commented Mar 31, 2010 at 2:22
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    @Jeff: do you want "facebook people" using your sites? Commented Mar 31, 2010 at 2:46
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    You want facebook people? readwriteweb.com/archives/… Commented Mar 31, 2010 at 2:50
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    @shog, I think all that is jealous talk... dailymail.co.uk/news/article-527458/… Commented Mar 31, 2010 at 2:50
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    No, you should NOT be using farcebook to draw users. SO is for programmers, farcebook is for people who don't have anything better to do ;b Commented Mar 31, 2010 at 3:56
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    I thought SO was for programmers who don't have anything better to do? Commented Mar 31, 2010 at 5:44
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    Welp, seeing as how I don't have a Facebook account, looks like I won't be testing this. So what can we learn from Quora? Mainly that walled gardens restrict your reach and - by extension - the overall quality of your content. OpenID was a way smarter move. Commented Apr 6, 2010 at 21:12
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    It's actually kind of fascinating to see how many of the features pinged out in the answers here have made it into the SO engine over the past year. Particularly those pointed out in @shog9's answer. Commented Apr 1, 2011 at 10:31
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    The feeling I get when you I a Wikipedia article is "Oh, that's much more than what I needed to know, no way I'm going to read through all that." Commented Apr 2, 2011 at 7:24
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    Most of the answers here indulge in all out Quora-bashing. Yes, the SO model is much better in many of the things that Quora. But it does not really answer "What we can learn from Quora". There are some answers that focus on that, but they are too few. (FYI I don't have a Quora account, and probably won't have one any time soon) Commented Apr 2, 2011 at 18:50
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    Quora is based on a community. SE sites are based on a topic. If someone wants to volunteer their time to help other users in a community of people like them, its more rewarding to answer questions within a community than on a strict topic-based Q&A site. That said, Quora has done some things wrong which prevents it from being adopted by many users (requiring registration and Real Names is the first that come to mind) Commented Mar 26, 2013 at 12:23
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    This question is featured on Quora, What are some interesting points raised in the Stack Overflow question: "What can we learn from Quora?". It is lacking answers which may or may not tell us something. Commented Jan 29, 2014 at 21:07
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    "we don't care about the social graph, we care about the information graph" Perhaps true 8 years ago but with 73 mods recently quitting / going on strike SO is now more obsessed with pronouns for avatars than technical accuracy for programmers. So I would say yes SO does care about social trends today. Commented Oct 13, 2019 at 21:20