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Re: Why Not to Use Quora

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Post by nurettin »

anonytrary wrote: post #17
zenexer wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I never found the quality to be anywhere near as good as Stack Exchange, even when Quora first launched. Why anyone would knowingly use Quora over Stack Exchange is a mystery to me; I suspect that most Quora users simply aren't aware that Stack Exchange exists, since SE traditionally catered primarily to a technical audience. Edit: One of my biggest gripes with the platform is that it's always solicited a large numbe…

SE is much more difficult to start using than Quora, which is also probably why it has higher quality content. Quora has absolutely no quality control.

quora did SEO right. It has huge visibility, and thus, high quality answers get huge votes, even from people who aren't from that field of expertise. So perhaps post quality is lower than SE, but vote quality is magnitudes higher in my experience.

Re: Why Not to Use Quora

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Post by puranjay »

gurumeditations wrote: post #16

Quora 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.

As an Indian, I have to agree. My feed is filled with questions about salaries and IT jobs, even though I've never held an IT job or want one. The answers are insipid, the burden of proof is entirely anecdotal, and brevity is apparently not a thing.

Plus, the platform is now filled with spammers just promoting their own companies. Ask a question about how to manage a project better and you'll only get some spammer promoting his software instead of actually sharing tactics.

Re: Why Not to Use Quora

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Post by watwut »

shard972 wrote: post #108
stickfigure wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On one hand I feel the same reaction you have to the parent, phrased this way it sounds like he/she is denigrating a whole nation. On the other hand, there was something that happened here that we should probably talk about. A few years ago some of the topics (especially human-relationship subjects) experienced a sudden surge of content from people from India. I know many smart and erudite Indians, and these new user…

> Kids online are generally insufferable from all cultures. Hey man thats ageist! I know X kids that are probably smarter than the average adult! Maybe we should have a conversation on ageism now.

Maybe we should. Because assholes of all ages tend to be blamed on kids - thirty years old someone being toxic on the internet is assumed to be teenager even when his/her age is known.

The follow up question is: if we truly assume it is all kids being jerks, why do adults dont voice disapproval the way they would in real life, but rather sheepishly enable it? Role modeling and it takes a village and all that.

Re: Why Not to Use Quora

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Post by piyush_soni »

I asked it directly to Quora, but they didn't answer (so wondering if someone knows the answer here). According to GDPR, if I request them, they have to delete all of my data they ever had - Is my understanding true here? I want to do that, but I'm afraid if they'll actually do it.

Re: Why Not to Use Quora

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Post by kown223 »

sanketskasar wrote: post #112
gurumeditations wrote: post #16

Quora 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.

Tell me about it. I was probably among the few thousands of Indians using the website during 2012-2013. It helped me so much with learning programming, asking experts, reading about their experiences about working on large scale projects. I thought Quora was the go-to place for useful advices. A year or so and a Quora popularity boom later, I had hundreds of followers, feeds with all kinds of life stories and experie…

you're OK with all the rape going on in india?

Re: Why Not to Use Quora

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Post by tminima »

gurumeditations wrote: post #16

Quora 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.

Reminds me about the Quora's "India Problem" in 2013. I am an Indian and I stopped going on Quora within a month of joining the service. Now, from the looks of it, it has actually worsened.

Re: Why Not to Use Quora

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Post by jacobush »

gaius wrote: post #117
gnulinux wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SE has a very strict notion of having the "correct answer" to each question which is enforced in all communities except some (Interpersonal SE and "soft questions" come to mind). Even in those contexts, answers must be well cited and be credible in a certain way (e.g. in Interpersonal SE all answers must be grounded by personal experiences). This makes it a fundamentally different website than Quora. Quora is about e…

SE has a very strict notion of having the "correct answer" to each question Probably had . The secret of SE’s success was the rigorous curation as encouraged via the gamification system, explicitly at the design of the site’s founders. Now there are various interpretations of their change in direction, but the quality has noticeably deteriorated for both questions and answers. There’s no sign of a credible rival righ…

ExpertsExchange was also a UX tire fire, whatever SE is, it's not that.
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