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Here's an experiment: I asked the same question on Quora, Sprouter, HN ... where will I get better responses?

Here's the Quora version: http://www.quora.com/What-impact-will-Sprouters-pivot-have-o...

The experiment does not mean anything. You will have very little response or no response at all.

Why? A lot of Q/A startups come and go and personally nobody cares if yet another new one shows up.

Maybe. Then again, people on Quora loooooooove talking about Quora, and so do some of the folks here. And on Quora, I sent it to Charlie Cheever of Quora, Sarah Prevette of Sprouter, and Nicholas Carlson (who's been writing about this place), tweeted it to Audrey Watters and others, and sent it to a bunch of folks on Facebook. So we shall see.

The way I look at it ...

- a negative result across all sites implies that nobody cares.

- a positive result on one or more sites reveals something interesting

So from an experimental point, it's good data no matter what happens.

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