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I think I was on the site yesterday. Went there through a link on twitter and clicked a link on that page. I was presented with the dreaded 'sign up to see' overlay dark pattern. PS: I deleted my account sometimes back because I thought they used too many dark patterns to my taste at the time.
I think I was on the site yesterday. Went there through a link on twitter and clicked a link on that page. I was presented with the dreaded 'sign up to see' overlay dark pattern. PS: I deleted my account sometimes back because I thought they used too many dark patterns to my taste at the time.
Tip: when presented with the dreaded sign up to see overlay, you can add ?share=1 to the end of the URL to bypass it.
They did a very good job attracting core early contributors who wrote unique great content and then it snowballed. Reading answers posted by the top 10 contributors is just fun. All content is SEO-friendly. Much of it is authoritative and Google loves authoritative content. There is a setting to make my content appear as anonymous to search engines, but many of us associate our names with our content. Most of Quora's…
On the contrary I've been there less and less. There was a time where I was looking to contribute but the website is flooded with fake users generated questions. I guess they have to do that to fake the growth and attract more people but it just felt empty then...
Why not?
Their unsubscribe form is (or was last I saw it in 2015) a nastier piece of work than I could imagine, even if told: Come up with the most annoying unsubscribe form you can. Make it really hard to unsubscribe from everything...make'em work for it.
Quora, I hope, will continue to lose to much better, much more ethical, Q&A sites. The Stack Exchange sites seem like the market leaders, as they probably should be. They do nearly everything right, and they do it without being smarmy. Sites that believe they have a right to my attention, and are willing to cheat to get it, really ought to be shunned in polite company. I'm not sure how they've managed to maintain a patina of legitimacy after all these years of being no-good, shiftless, internet hucksters. We, as a community, usually shun the hell out of spammers...and yet, when Quora (and LinkedIn, for another example of a spammer getting a pass) do it, most folks just shrug as though it's no big deal. Does a certain level of economic success lend credibility even when behaving in ways that deserve no credibility?
Not that I'm grumpy about it, or anything.
They did a very good job attracting core early contributors who wrote unique great content and then it snowballed. Reading answers posted by the top 10 contributors is just fun. All content is SEO-friendly. Much of it is authoritative and Google loves authoritative content. There is a setting to make my content appear as anonymous to search engines, but many of us associate our names with our content. Most of Quora's…
Most importantly, the site is SEO friendly.
Quora lets you sign up using a Google account. Normally, this means you won't need to create a new password. However, Quora immediately asks you to provide one.
With that in mind, what's the point of linking your Google account? Well, according to this recent thread, Quora tries to access your contacts:
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/3ax27p/tried_to_re...