Just block answers by Indian users. It will be alright again.
Sad but true, but it will never happen. Quora is traffic hungry and get millions of visits (if not all) from India region. It is literally cancer at this point.
Why Not to Use Quora
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Re: Why Not to Use Quora
#62Does the root cause of all these problems with quora come down to being vc funded and needing high revenue numbers and growth rates? Imagine quora was a site driven by the community... It's a conundrum, only a vc funded site can reach such scale, have great growth etc but when the time for monetization comes, everything starts going downhill. A site driven by a foundation for example, rarely ever gets to any sort of…
I do get a sense that they put more effort into marketing and growth than actually fostering a solid knowledge base. However, an interesting point was raised in another comment: comparable sites that focus on quality often come across as unwelcoming because they have strict guidelines. I'm not sure it can be entirely blamed on the fact that they're VC-funded--to some extent, it seems they're more interested in being newbie-friendly than producing quality content.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
And what exactly are those? Please share. HINT: I've been here for 10 years.
Why can't you express your opinion on here anymore? After all -- it's called "Hacker" News. I'm willing to bet the majority of people downvoting me somehow ended up here or in tech by the dollar signs rather than the "hacking" subculture. I guarantee you that HN has lost a lot of good conversation due to the constant fear of the downvote brigade (you know -- the "Hive Mind" I mentioned in another one of my comments).…
> I'll express my opinion when I feel like it.
You're welcome to do that in a way that is constructive. What you are not welcome to do is be rude when doing so, like you are here.
Re: Why Not to Use Quora
#64spammers with Indian sounding names killed it. Question how much is 3*3?
You'd get 40 answers spamming their website, 20 life stories of completely uneventful event, and then answer 9 repeatedly posted like 11 times.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
And what exactly are those? Please share. HINT: I've been here for 10 years.
Why can't you express your opinion on here anymore? After all -- it's called "Hacker" News. I'm willing to bet the majority of people downvoting me somehow ended up here or in tech by the dollar signs rather than the "hacking" subculture. I guarantee you that HN has lost a lot of good conversation due to the constant fear of the downvote brigade (you know -- the "Hive Mind" I mentioned in another one of my comments).…
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#66Quora was great years ago, but now it’s just a glorified Yahoo Answers full of Indians giving non-answers and fake stories in broken English.
Exactly. Essays on essays being written on irrelevant, hell even if you decide to skip and scroll past any answers that look like ebook you can't scroll enough to skip to the precise and meaningful answers.
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#67spammers with Indian sounding names killed it. Question how much is 3*3? You'd get 40 answers spamming their website, 20 life stories of completely uneventful event, and then answer 9 repeatedly posted like 11 times.
I know I shouldn't, but I'm awfully tempted to test this.
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#68This applies to Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, and every other major 'social' platform today.
Data goes in - it doesn't come out. Can't explain it!
They're walled gardens.
What's frustrating is that users don't care. They simply do not care.
Their data leaks, it's sold to the Russians, and they keep coming back.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
This bizarre racism seems quite off-topic.
He absolutely 10000% correct, it is not racism. Quora is 98% Indian (or similar region country people) asking fake questions to "market" their crappy service. It is incredibly obvious if you ever visit once. (Probably will be your first visit because you didn't notice it.)
It is indeed not racism. I was an editor at Quora in its early days as a way to make some easy side money. I'd say something on the order of 90% of the unedited content in the queue originates in India, and it's terrible. Loads and loads of repetitive, already-answered questions (a seemingly never-ending flood) about IIT or body shops and worried queries about which engineering school is the best or the most competitive, all badly written and horribly spelled. And that's before you even get to the scammy stuff!
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#70Quora was great years ago, but now it’s just a glorified Yahoo Answers full of Indians giving non-answers and fake stories in broken English.
Yet you have the Indians to thank for your username: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru