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Re: Quora pays thousands for posting questions

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Post by grecy »

theossuary wrote: post #71
dec0dedab0de wrote: post #45

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.

Just putting "-quora.com" (no quotes) on the end of a search seems to do it just fine.. you could have a long list of them you copy/paste in every time, or I imagine you could write a grease monkey script to do it for you automatically every time you click "search"

Re: Quora pays thousands for posting questions

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Post by fiblye »

manigandham wrote: post #47
anigbrowl wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Advertising seems to be toxic to free communication. It pretty much killed Usenet.

You can definitely have ads like Reddit or StackOverflow that work fine though. Messing with the content itself is the problem.

Reddit's ads are the content. Most picture posts are ads of some sort, and comments are full of very apparent astroturfing.

Reddit also has the gilding system for making extra cash for when ads aren't enough.

Re: Quora pays thousands for posting questions

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Post by fourthark »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #91
askafriend wrote: post #78

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Do they actually do this as a meaningful part of their revenue stream or are you saying this in jest?

If that figure is accurate for what they are paying for questions then I'm guessing it is a big chunk of revenue. Ads don't pay that well on a site like this. I didn't appreciate how hard it was to come up with good QA pairs for a topic until IBM Watson acquired the company I was working for (Blekko) and got to see how things got made. I isn't something you can farm out to Mechanical Turk, and without AGI it isn't so…

I don't know about the vetting process, but the ranking is by popularity not accuracy.

So, I like this theory but I doubt the quality of what your algorithms would learn this way.

Re: Quora pays thousands for posting questions

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Post by msaharia »

astura wrote: post #48
josteink wrote: post #23

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I dunno. I’ve noticed my feed now contains more and more ads. And posts out of order. And posts on repeat. It’s clearly no longer the simple service which simply shows me the latest images posted by those I follow. It’s now a site I can tell is trying to game me, and that’s such a turn off. Facebook had that moment where they crossed a line and that was when I stopped posting. Instagram too is getting close. They sho…

Funny thing is a lot of those ads aren't even paid for, wannabe influencers post ads now to make themselves look like they are being paid to post ads, to eventually get paid to post ads. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/12/influ...

Wow. This is madness on a whole different level. I hadn't thought of this angle.

Re: Quora pays thousands for posting questions

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Post by buboard »

Havoc wrote: post #6

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.

I remember it because of the high profile people who chose that as their medium of choice. It wasn't because it was great, it s because the founders of quora were well connected. It was suspect from the start tbh

Re: Quora pays thousands for posting questions

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Post by qznc »

wnevets wrote: post #30
madamelic wrote: post #7

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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.

Seems like "marketing" is how a lot of things die and/or become garbage.

Is it cause or effect though?

The actual reason could be that your business model is not sustainable. Eventually you will then be pressured into ever more desperate ways to get income. Inevitably that will include ads on the web.

Re: Quora pays thousands for posting questions

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Post by dmoy »

polpo wrote: post #105
dmoy wrote: post #72

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Do you know of any good replacement sites? (If you were to answer longform somewhere now, where would it be?)

Ask MetaFilter: https://ask.metafilter.com/ It costs $5 to get an account that lets you ask or answer, and they have paid moderation staff that keep answers on-topic and high quality. The signal-to-noise ratio is quite high.

Oo nice, thanks.

Re: Quora pays thousands for posting questions

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Post by artwr »

grecy wrote: post #111
theossuary wrote: post #71

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More than anything I want a search engine I can blacklist domains in.

Just putting "-quora.com" (no quotes) on the end of a search seems to do it just fine.. you could have a long list of them you copy/paste in every time, or I imagine you could write a grease monkey script to do it for you automatically every time you click "search"

Or -site:quora.com if you are OK with pages with links to quora but you just do not want a result from that domain.
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