Compare Q&A sites (Quora vs Yahoo Answers vs StackOverflow, TED conversations)

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Compare Question and Answers sites: Quora vs StackOverflow vs TED conversations vs Yahoo Answers
Answer MatrixQuoraStackOverflowTED conversationsYahoo AnswersQuextit
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Websitehttp://www.answermatrix.com/http://www.quora.comhttp://stackoverflow.com/http://www.ted.com/conversationshttp://answers.yahoo.com/http://frc.quextit.com
DescriptionAnswerMatrix is an online knowledge exchange community of everyday people that love sharing information.Quora is a question and answer site focused on getting really high quality, authoritative content on any topic that people are interested in.This is a collaboratively edited question and answer site for professional and enthusiast programmers. It's 100% free, no registration required. There are other sites for other topics, such as Photography, DIY, Cooking, Gaming etc.. See http://stackexchange.com for a full list of the current sites.A social media platform that connects people for conversation, collaboration and debate. The platform gives people access to engage notable TED speakers, and the broader TED community, in conversations that -- for the first time on a social network -- have a time limit.Yahoo! Answers is a place where people ask and answer questions on any topic. Why not share your facts, opinions and personal experiences with the Yahoo! Answers community?Quextit provides Q&A Engines. This site is an example where the FIRST Robotics Competition is using it to manage their Technical Question and Answer. The Game Q&A is hosted by FIRST themselves at https://frc-qa.usfirst.org/Questions.php.
Who uses the site?Everybody"Elite": Tech pundits, entrepreneurs, early adopters, bloggers, marketers, social media mavens.Developers, programmers, experts and enthusiasts. Other site have experts and enthusiasts in their domain.TED speakers and community (engaged, intellectually curious members)EverybodyAnyone can use Quextit but this Q&A site is for FIRST Robotics Competition competitors.
TopicsGeneral topics and discussionGeneral topics and discussionTechnical programming issues. Issues relevant to the domain for the other sites in the network.General topics and discussion but mainly focused on all important problems to solve around the world...General topics and discussionRobotics
User reputation systemYes Point and military rankNoYes scores, badgesYes TEDCred scores, TEDCred medals, and badgesYes points, levels, statisticsNo
Related questionsNo Coming soonYesYesNoYesYes
Related videoNoNoNoYes Related TED TalksNoYes
Tag assignmentsYesYes Topic assignmentsYesYesNoNo
Ratings for questionNoYes up or downYes vote for great conversationYes mark question as interestingYes
Ratings for commentsYes up or downYesYes up or downYesYes upNo
SummaryYes Summary in tooltipYes Answers summaryYes Summary appears at tooltipYes Discussion summaryNoYes
Follow questionsNoYesYes Via RSS feeds on each questionNoYes private watchlistYes
Follow topicsNoYesYes via RSS feeds on tagsNoNoNo
Follow membersNoYesNo People aren't the focus of the sites, the questions and answers are.NoNoYes
Post a Message to Your FollowersNoYesNoNoNoYes
Ability to edit question (modify)Yes Sergeant and above can modifyYesYes Anybody can suggest edits (subject to approval). Users with 2K+ rep can make edits straight away.NoNoYes
Ability to suggest edits to answersNoYesYes Anybody can suggest edits (subject to approval). Users with 2K+ rep can make edits straight away.NoNoNo
Email notificationsNoYesYes Tick the box at the bottom of your question.NoNoYes
Search box autocompletesNoYesNoNoNoNo
Saves drafts of postsNoYesYes A single draft of a question or answer is savedNoNoNo
Revert modificationsNoYesYes Edits can be rolled back to any previous version by anyone with edit rights.NoNoYes
Real-time updatingNoYesYesNoNoYes
StatisticsYes Asked, views, latest activityYes viewed, latest activity, followersYes asked, viewed, latest activityNoYes not really.. only number of personal questions and answersYes
Volunteer moderatorsYesNoYes Voted on by the rest of the communityYesNoNo
Time-boxed conversationsNoNoNoYes Whether it's one day or one month, TED Conversations are assigned an expiration date to keep the discussion sharp and on-topicNoNo
AdvertisementsNo Not yetNoYes Reduced for users with more than 200 repYesYesNo
Technology platform used for other sitesNoNoYes http://stackexchange.com/NoNoYes
Content license / TermsTerms: do not modify the Content, put a link to Quora website to use content, keep update content with the latest version on quora.Open data: CC-by-SA license (free to Remix, to reuse with attribution link)Creative Commons 3.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives) license: attribute the conversation; noncommercial use only; and no derivative works.Yahoo copyright
Identity systemAnswer matrix systemFacebook, TwitterGoogle, Yahoo, Myopenid, Facebook, AOL, Blogger, LiveJournal, Wordpress, Verisign, Openid, ClaimID, ClickPass, Google Profile, Stackoverflow account.TED accountYahoo, Facebook, Google
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  • The list compiled here is really nice and the criteria is quite helpful. I have used them all and I can say that they are good. A couple of days ago I have discovered a new web page, a friend of mine recommended it to me and I saw that it is actually good. I have posted some answers on it, it is ask.whatafy.com, it sure is loads of fun. It is relatively new, but there are interesting pieces of information hidden there. Has anyone heard about it?
    Posted 2013-04-30 10:42:49 by dania
  • You should add this site also its an awesome question & answer site! http://questionsection.com
    Posted 2013-03-16 15:35:38 by Vinci
  • voted for Quora (Like)
    Posted 2012-06-15 15:55:36 by Ploy Benjamas
  • voted for Quora (Like)
    Posted 2012-04-02 12:08:44 by Shmuly Rubashkin
  • voted for StackOverflow (Like)
    Posted 2011-12-25 00:23:55 by Zoltan Ludanyi
  • Hello @Luke101, you can just click on "+" button or "add" if you want to compare more things on SocialCompare (adding items or criteria). Then you save your changes.
    Posted 2011-09-23 15:01:49 by Vanina
  • Wow..this is a very unique way to organize and compare data. Is there a way to organanize the data in such a way to view more criteia? http://www.answermatrix.com/
    Posted 2011-09-22 09:06:28 by Luke101
  • voted for StackOverflow (Like)
    Posted 2011-06-27 15:44:41 by Mitch Pronschinske
  • voted for this Comparison (Like)
    Posted 2011-02-21 23:42:52 by Vanina

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