I posted this on the other site, but I figure I might as well copy paste my comment(since it took a few minutes to put the data together):

I'm not sure, but I think startups.com is beating answers.onstartups.com

onstartups has an alexa rank of 27.5K, but that's shared with Dharmesh's actual onstartups blog. startups.com has an alexa rank of 29.5K, and that's all them.

And yeah I know alexa rank is worthless, but it's a useful indicator when it comes to comparing 2 sites.

then we have users:

startups.com has 2055 users. answers.onstartups.com has 1687

then we have # of questions, onstartups has 928, startups.com has 3943.

then you have page rank, startups.com has PR of 5, onstartups.com has PR of 0.

and finally you have level of activity: onstartups: 29 questions updated in the last 24 hours(either asked or answered) startups.com: 29 questions updated in the last 5 hours

So by every metric onstartups is getting creamed.

I think this is a perfect example of what Jason talked about on the video, since both Dharmesh and Jason already made their bucks, they don't really care whether the site sinks or swims. While for startups.com guys, they see it as their opportunity to make it a big cash cow, so they try to go create content to make it grow as fast as possible.

With my site(i use the same platform), I'm going for a mix of both. Build up content to drive traffic, but try to focus on quality, so that the traffic that does come gets a positive experience and just might register. This is why every question gets thoroughly researched and answered. Sure it's slower than spamming the crap out of my site with dumbass fake questions like startups.com guys...but at least I don't have 1246 unanswered questions on my site.

Well to be completely honest, I do spam my site a little with fake questions. But that's because as a brand new site, there is really not that much traffic yet, and I don't want my users who like answering questions to get bored.