Quora! Quora! Quora! or the Scoble Stress Test

I was struck by something Jeremiah Owyang said this morning in a series of twts:

@Scobleizer [Robert Scoble} serves a key important role in our industry, he adopts, tests, breaks, and pushes every disruptive technology.

I've known + worked with Scoble for 5 years now. He's done this for Blogs, Twitter, LiveStreaming, Facebook, Friendfeed, FourSquare, Quora

Following the Weekly Quora Quota of Silicon Valley blogs pimping a service* that many people have forgotten about (of those who tried it in The Great After Christmas Email Blitz, that is ), Mr Scoble exploded onto our screens with a renunciation of Quora. The defenders (said Silicon Valley blogs, et al) were quick to respond:

But I think Jeremiah said it well - a Social media service being Scoble-ised is equivalent to a blog being slashdotted - it will test all your systems':

- Scalability - here comes a sudden influx of many tens of thousands of people.....

- Mediability - all these people are here to read Mr Scobles voluminous output, not that of the current curated cognoscenti (and be prepered for bandwidth sucking movies, pictures etc)

- Scamability - these are partisan people, they worship their Hero - be prepared for any reputational or quality assurance systems/algorithms to be gamed to the high heavens (Update - interesting thoughts here by Robert Scoble on "Unearned Followers")

- Spamability - cometh the Scoble, cometh the Spammers who swim, lamprey-like, in his wake. Set your controls for a signal to noise ratio worse than, well...just worse than.

- Wyldeability - Oscar Wylde said that there is only one thing worse than being talked about (negatively), and that's not being talked about. You better believe it, because when he grumbles......

We wonder who will be the first System Assurance company to offer a "Scoble-Attack-In-A-Box" stress test kit....

(Update - interesting Question - why not just add a Q&A plugin to blogs - blogged here )

* Jas Dhaliwal reminds me that Kia-Ora is a juice drink - not quite Kool-Aid, but you can't have everything.