There is some really good content on Quora (by which I mean good writers, and even some war criminals...) but they need beating into shape.
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#202I used to enjoy Quora, but it lost its charm and I quit once my feed became mostly filled with questions such as: - As a software engineer, what makes you roll your eyes every time you hear it? - What did your mother say that made your jaw drop? - What can I learn in one minute that will be useful for the rest of my life? Those open questions just feel clickbait-y, with no real value added. I occasionally see questio…
This is definitely because of paid questions - if you take a look at the most revenue generating questions they are all pretty dumb - I spent some time trying to think of some good questions to see whether it was possible to make money, but soon realised I couldn't bring myself to participate in such stupidity - if a good question is worth nothing from a financial perspective, why bother?
They need to start incentivising answers in someway soon otherwise it's going to go even further downhill.
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#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Google search and their new NLP technology is just extracting the question and answers from content like that on Quora, significantly reducing their page hit volumes This frustrates me, but I think Quora's UX and marketing decisions greatly exacerbated this effect. Quora shot themselves in the foot with a shotgun thanks to their sign up walls. At one point (and probably still true), you couldn't even click a link t…
Just in case, add a question mark at the end of the Quora URL (that prompts you to login) and refresh. Links from within Quora miss that and then you are prompted to login, but if you add the question mark you can access the target without logging in.
Thanks for the tip and I mean that genuinely but we shouldn’t need to do that to have a decent user experience.
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#204Gheesh... First Uber, DigitalOcean, 23AndMe... and now Quora
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#205Any company that relies on SEO content is basically going to disapear. Google search and their new NLP technology is just extracting the question and answers from content like that on Quora, significantly reducing their page hit volumes. Not only that, other lower ranked content can be verified to be "true" using neural network based NLP, meaning that the value of content has gone down. Google stole the business of q…
Have you considered that Quora is failing because it's user-hostile? I do not visit Quora links on Google because I know it's going to tease me with a snippet and force me to login.
Exactly ! I'm never quite sure where to see the "click-bait" answer and when does a new question or answer stop or starts.
Quora has good content.. But its HARD to read it...
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#206Any company that relies on SEO content is basically going to disapear. Google search and their new NLP technology is just extracting the question and answers from content like that on Quora, significantly reducing their page hit volumes. Not only that, other lower ranked content can be verified to be "true" using neural network based NLP, meaning that the value of content has gone down. Google stole the business of q…
> Google search and their new NLP technology is just extracting the question and answers from content like that on Quora, significantly reducing their page hit volumes This frustrates me, but I think Quora's UX and marketing decisions greatly exacerbated this effect. Quora shot themselves in the foot with a shotgun thanks to their sign up walls. At one point (and probably still true), you couldn't even click a link t…
Yea exactly ! If you make it hard for the user to do simple stuff... Read and answer... They won't come back or like you much.. i.e #DontMakeMeThink from the user :P
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#207Do we know how many ? News is useless unless its more than 10%
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#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
/r/AskReddit but with no moderation. Anyone can ask any question no matter how dumb.
Isn't that true of AskReddit too? Nobody moderates the endless "girls of Reddit, what's something sexy that men don't realise?" questions.
There is some moderation even if it is lenient.
But yes, the quality of discussion on AskReddit is low, which is why I unsubscribed more than half a decade ago. Thankfully, there's other sections of reddit that are in a better state. Quora, however, is a one-trick pony. It's just AskReddit and nothing else. There's no AskHistorians (with it's high standards) or askscience.
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#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The content is simply extracted and stolen. How can we have a thriving internet when such monopolistic and profit driven practices stifle innovation and creation on the web? TripAdvisor, Quora, and Yelp are just as rent-seeking and profit-driven as Google. If I write a review on TripAdvisor or Yelp or answer a question on Quora, I, the author, certainly don't get compensated for it. If Quora fails and another compa…
HN feels like such a sanctuary: a high quality space not (yet?) perverted by the pressures of a purely profit motive. It’d be interesting to study how does HN thrives; more deeply understand the incentives that sustain the HN ecosystem.
Thinking out loud,'I would gladly pay to be on hackernews ecosystem'.
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#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just in case, add a question mark at the end of the Quora URL (that prompts you to login) and refresh. Links from within Quora miss that and then you are prompted to login, but if you add the question mark you can access the target without logging in.
Thanks for the tip and I mean that genuinely but we shouldn’t need to do that to have a decent user experience.
>but we shouldn’t need to do that to have a decent user experience.
Not only that, this (as well as many other simple "tricks" or "workarounds") creates (arbitrarily) two kinds of users, those that know the trick and those that don't (and likely create two different sets of user opinions).
I mean, to me (because I know the little trick) usage of Quora is relatively painless (though I still try my best to avoiding using it because of the mostly terribly bad content) whilst another user that doesn't know the trick and doesn't want to login may have the illusion that the content, once accessed, may have some value.