Quora Credits
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Quora Credits was a virtual currency inside Quora's question-and-answer platform. Users earned credits for positive contributions such as answering questions and receiving upvotes, and spent them to request answers from prominent experts through the 'Ask to Answer' feature or to promote content to a wider audience.
02 / Quora Credits FAILURE REASONS
Failure reasons
The credit system was retired as Quora streamlined its platform. The promote feature that credits powered was removed to reduce abuse of promotional opportunities, and Quora moved to algorithmic distribution of content based on engagement metrics like upvotes, comments and shares instead of a user-driven credit economy.
03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Launch
Quora rolled out Credits and 'Ask to Answer' to all users, letting them earn credits for contributions and spend them to get answers from experts.
- Discontinued
Quora removed the promote feature, ending the issuance of credits and retiring the credit system.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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