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Im still wondering why Quora is allowed in google results. They're like the new expertsexchange. Plus it completely baffles me that anyone would use it for a topic that has a stack exchange.
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>What happened to Quora anyway? It became marketing. Almost every question turns into blatant and unhelpful pitches for the responder's startup. Same with Medium. Once the startup bros say a site is good for "native marketing", that's when the begins to die.
> Almost every question turns into blatant and unhelpful pitches for the responder's startup. They break all of their own rules for the sake of clicks. I was a Top Writer there for two years. I finally got sick of trying to write informative high-quality answers only to see them buried beneath flippant image-heavy crap (rules violation #1) that didn't even get one tenth as many upvotes (rules violation #2). Then they…
I wonder what motivates Adam D’Angelo to keep on as founder and CEO after 10 years of running Quora. Here is someone who got rich off FB and could do anything. Maybe early on that “anything” was Quora but I really can’t believe that what Quora is now is anything close to what he envisioned when he first started the site. At this point it feels like a Zombie co that keeps chugging along because it has no other choice…
But what if this was his sole vision for Quora in the first place? It doesn't require a genius to know that everybody who worked in the new era of social media (mid to late 2000s) understood that you could create an empire from your users' free labor while doing literally nothing. Quora was built as such, Quora was made so that one website contains questions and answers about everything and exploit search engines and…
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But what if this was his sole vision for Quora in the first place? It doesn't require a genius to know that everybody who worked in the new era of social media (mid to late 2000s) understood that you could create an empire from your users' free labor while doing literally nothing. Quora was built as such, Quora was made so that one website contains questions and answers about everything and exploit search engines and…
Well now you know the secret to get rich, go ahead ;)
I quit Quora after they deleted my account by mistake - in the process of merging my two accounts with different emails, they managed to delete both - and then said "sorry, we screwed up, but unfortunately we can't undo it". All my answers were gone. I put many hours into writing those answers and I still don't understand the policy of automatically deleting all content when the account is deleted.
If someone goes through the trouble to delete their account it makes sense that they’d want their content gone too (privacy).
Im still wondering why Quora is allowed in google results. They're like the new expertsexchange. Plus it completely baffles me that anyone would use it for a topic that has a stack exchange.
More than anything I want a search engine I can blacklist domains in.
I quit Quora after they deleted my account by mistake - in the process of merging my two accounts with different emails, they managed to delete both - and then said "sorry, we screwed up, but unfortunately we can't undo it". All my answers were gone. I put many hours into writing those answers and I still don't understand the policy of automatically deleting all content when the account is deleted.
That policy is actually good. If someone goes through the trouble to delete their account it makes sense that they’d want their content gone too (privacy).
What happened to Quora anyway? When it started I recall it being super hot with crazy high quality answers. Then they started with logins being required and it all seemed to go downhill at an amazing speed.
They realized they could make money selling high quality question/answer pairs to machine learning companies building dialog systems. As a result the more pairs they have, the more their dataset is worth. Buy questions and resell as QA pairs.
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> Almost every question turns into blatant and unhelpful pitches for the responder's startup. They break all of their own rules for the sake of clicks. I was a Top Writer there for two years. I finally got sick of trying to write informative high-quality answers only to see them buried beneath flippant image-heavy crap (rules violation #1) that didn't even get one tenth as many upvotes (rules violation #2). Then they…
Do you know of any good replacement sites? (If you were to answer longform somewhere now, where would it be?)
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>What happened to Quora anyway? It became marketing. Almost every question turns into blatant and unhelpful pitches for the responder's startup. Same with Medium. Once the startup bros say a site is good for "native marketing", that's when the begins to die.
> Once the startup bros say a site is good for "native marketing", that's when the begins to die. That's a good point. Though it certainly isn't the case for Instagram...
Maybe it's because I've work with people in this space, but I'm convinced 60% of Instagram activity is generated by bots. Give it time.